Cullerton Group has a new opportunity for an IT Software Engineer 5 (Release Engineer) in Chicago, IL. The work will be done onsite 1 day a week. The rest will be work-from-home. This is a long term contract. It can lead to permanent employment with our customer. Compensation is $177,000/yr + OT including benefits, vision, dental, health insurance, 401K and holiday pay. Cullerton Group will provide sponsorship.
This is an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated Release Engineer. The primary purpose of the role is to monitor and co-ordinate the build and release cycle of modern cloud-based customer facing web application by collaborating with Scrum Teams, QA, Product and Business stakeholders. You will be part of a fast-moving global team to build a best-in-class product for dealers worldwide to improve operational efficiency and reduce TCO.
- Typical task breakdown: As a Release Engineer/Co-Ordinator, you will be responsible for monitoring CI/CD pipelines for smooth and successful builds and develop the UAT and production release plans. You will also be coordinating with important stakeholders such as QA, Infrastructure, Product and Business managers to resolve build problems, determine the release feature set and gathering of release documentation. Successful candidate also will perform DevOps role as secondary role. As a DevOps role successful candidate will demonstrate competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, Lambda. Proficient in Python programming language and tech stacks *Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.
Education & Experience Required:
- Degree with 10+ years experience
- Master degree with 8+ years experience
Technical Skills
(Required)
- • 5+ years of IT release or delivery management.
- • 3+ experience with CICD pipelines, GIT and DevOps tools and technologies
- • Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills Top candidates will also have:
- • Experience in/with the following: o Azure DevOps o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) with multiple other teams as a Scrum Master or Program Manager or Project Co-Ordinator
- • Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following, o AWS Cloud, automated CICD and BDD with Cucumber.
- • Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
- • Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science