Engineer, Release Engineering

Job Purpose

The SDLC Tools Engineer, Platform Engineering, will be responsible for ICE’s overall SDLC strategy. This role is a combination of hands-on and strategic vision around build and deployment working closely with key stakeholders across the company. A successful candidate will understand the complete software/dev lifecycle and have proven track record on developing complete release engineering solutions that will have a high impact and reach across the entire organization.  

Responsibilities

• Partner with development, engineering, and operations teams to collect technical requirements and turn those into deliverables to help build a complete SDLC strategy.
• Assist in design and implementation plans to make certain network capacity meet existing and future requirements.
• Conduct research and make recommendations on Infrastructure products, services, protocols, and standards in support of infrastructure systems procurement and development.
• Work with vendors, outsourcers, and contractors to secure products and services
• Document, explain, and schedule changes following the change management process.
• Maintain current configuration standards on all SDLC Tools/Services, etc. including documenting vulnerabilities and researching potential solutions/upgrades.
• Work in a fast-paced environment with minimal oversight and make sound decisions even in emergency situations.
• Review existing ICE tools and processes, identify gaps, and identify areas for improvement. 
• POC, demo, and implement software to be used across build and deploy pipelines for on-premise bare metal, and virtual across Windows, Linux, and containerized platforms.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and dashboards, to maintain reliability and operational insight into SDLC platforms and CI/CD pipelines.

Knowledge and Experience 

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience 
• 5+ years’ experience with SDLC tools administration including expert level knowledge of one or many standard tools including, but not limited to, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, jFrog Artifactory, Ansible, Terraform.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies: Agile, Scrum, Waterfall (CMMi)
• Proven IaC experience
• Experience with Distributed and Parallel Build and Test environments.
• Solid understanding of the basic principles of DevOps, CI/CD, agile and lean philosophies 
• Experience configuring, administrating and integrating SDLC tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, GitHub, GitLab, Jenkins and Azure DevOps
• Proficient in source code management: branching strategies, access controls, repository management and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience designing and maintaining workflow automations, triggers, webhooks, and integrations between SDLC tools and other enterprise platforms
• Strong knowledge of configuration management, artifact repositories (e.g., Nexus, Artifactory), and package management tools
• Proficient in implementing tool upgrades, migrations and plugin/app installations with minimal disruption to development teams
• Expert knowledge of permission models, user administration and security best practices across SDLC tools
• Experience developing and maintaining comprehensive documentation, training materials and onboarding guides for tool usage
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues related to SDLC tool integrations and usability
• Experience with Code Promotion and Lifecyle management
• Experience with 1 or more Programming Languages like Python, Go Lang, Java, .NET, C++, C#, or similar
• Proficiency in Scripting Languages, like Bash, Groovy, PowerShell

Preferred 

• Linux and/or Windows Administration Experience 
• Hands on experience with container technologies and orchestration including, but not limited to, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Tanzu, OpenShift.
• Experience creating, testing, and using API’s 
• Comfort using AI coding assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor) to accelerate development.
• Ability to leverage AI productivity tools to automate repetitive tasks and summarize information

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