Urgent need - Build/Release Engineer - Bothell, WA

Company Description

Client : Leading global IT services firm 

Job Role: Build/Release Engineer

Location: Bothell, WA

Duration: 6+ Months Contract

Job description:

Responsibilities:

1: Build

• Build artifact for trading applications by following build & setup engineering guidelines, understanding build framework, following best practices for Build and configuring entities & applications as required.

• Manage & maintain source code repository in AccuRev/GIT, improve practices of branching, code merge & tagging policies, establish process control points and configure AccuRev/GIT to the custom needs of development team.

• Create & maintain a single click end-to-end automated deployment tool that will be used in setting up dev boxes, environments and sandboxes.

• Improve build process by automating the build related tasks leading up to building a continuous integration system for all our products

2: Manage and Maintain

• Manage & maintain workflow management process in JIRA

• Manage & maintain continuous integration system in Jenkins

• Manage & maintain build tools like Maven

• Setup & maintain the archive of software releases for major/minor/patch releases

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience as a Build/Release engineer in a large server farm/environment

• Strong programming/scripting background with knowledge of Unix/Linux

• Experience of working with code repositories like AccuRev/GIT & automation of configuration management tasks, along with other tools/applications like JIRA, Confluence, Team City/Jenkins, Fish Eye etc…

• Experience with software build tools like Ant, Maven, Gradle, continuous integration build systems like Team City, Jenkins, Hudson, etc., experience working with cloud platforms and deployment tools like Chef/Puppet

• Experience of using tools to integrate best practices like static code analysis, automated unit tests & regression tests, code coverage analyzers, creation of sandbox environments etc.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to work well in a team environment & independently while tackling complex problems

Please forward resume to my Mail Id, as mentioned below, keep subject line as job title & location. 

Email id: balaji(at)deegit.com

Phone: 847–440– 2436 Ext – 345