Release Engineer

Job Purpose

At ICE, we never rest. We are on a mission as a team. We are problem solvers and partners, always starting with our customers to solve their challenges and create opportunities. Our start-up roots keep us nimble, flexible, and moving fast. We take ownership and make decisions. We all work for one company and work together to drive growth across the business. We engage in robust debates to find the best path, and then we move forward as one team. We take pride in what we do, acting with integrity and passion, so that our customers can perform better. We are experts and enthusiasts - combining ever-expanding knowledge with leading technology to consistently deliver results, solutions and opportunities for our customers and stakeholders. Every day we work toward transforming global markets.

Engineer, Release Engineering will be responsible for ICE’s overall CI 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 CI/CD strategy.
• Provide thought leadership to the enterprise for our SDLC and CI strategy
• Enhance Developer Experience by simplifying existing Build and Code Promotion processes.
• 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.
• Develop standards and practices for deployments and create re-useable interfaces for consumers.
• Define standards for configuration management solution(s).
• Follow market trends and DevOps movements and apply models of continuous improvement to CI.
• Provide technical leadership, create technical specifications for new micro services and API’s
• Present ideas and strategy, communicate concisely and influence teams and individuals

Knowledge and Experience

• BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
• 3+ years’ experience with CI/CD toolchains including expert level knowledge of one or many standard tools including, but not limited to, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, Artifactory, Ansible, Chef, Terraform, Puppet.
• Hands on experience on planning, building, and running a complete CI pipeline on native/virtualized infrastructure.
• Hands On Experience with Build and Assembly technologies like, but not limited to Gradle, Maven, Conan, MSBuild.
• Experience with Distributed and Parallel Build and Test environments.
• Solid understanding of the basic principles of DevOps, CI, agile and lean philosophies
• Experience with Code Promotion and Lifecyle management.
• Experience migrating Legacy Applications to Containerized Microservices.
• Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to project development teams
• 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

Schedule

This role offers work from home flexibility of one day per week.