Position OverviewThe Senior Release Engineer will monitor and coordinate the build and release cycle for a modern, cloud-based, customer-facing web application used by dealers worldwide. This role partners closely with Scrum Teams, QA, Product, and Business stakeholders to help a fast-moving global team deliver a best-in-class product that improves operational efficiency and reduces total cost of ownership for end users.
Key Responsibilities- Monitor CI/CD pipelines to ensure smooth, successful builds, and develop UAT and production release plans.
- Coordinate with QA, Infrastructure, Product, and Business stakeholders to resolve build issues, determine the release feature set, and gather release documentation.
- Serve in a secondary DevOps capacity, demonstrating competency with AWS services including ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, and Lambda.
- Apply proficiency in Python to support release engineering and DevOps tasks.
- Work closely with Scrum Masters and the engineering team, leading scrum-of-scrums calls and managing the overall release cadence.
Work EnvironmentThis is a remote hybrid position based out of either our Peoria, IL or Chicago, IL office, with onsite presence required approximately one day per week (onsite time may increase). Candidates should be able to work flexible hours as needed to support release schedules
RequirementsEducation & Experience:- Bachelor's degree (Computer Science preferred) with 10+ years of relevant experience OR
- Master's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience.
Required Skills:- 8+ years of IT release or delivery management experience.
- 6-7+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps tools and technologies.
- Demonstrated experience managing multiple projects simultaneously.
- Experience with Azure DevOps.
- Experience working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum), collaborating across multiple teams as a Scrum Master, Program Manager, or Project Coordinator.
- Strong understanding of and/or experience with AWS Cloud, automated CI/CD, and BDD with Cucumber.
Soft Skills:- Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints.
- Passion for technology and eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment.
Benefits- 401(k)
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Paid Holidays
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Expected Compensation: $135,000-140,000 annually
