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Lead Release Engineer
Entertainment & Media Industry Company
Hollywood, CA, United States
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Overview and Responsibilities
Seasoned technology professional providing advanced expertise in installing, configuring and administering key applications that provide configuration, release management and operational controls, and for ensuring that configuration, build and release management systems and controls are in place and maintained.
Responsibilities to include, but not limited to:
• May propose new technical standards and develop new migration plans to the future technology infrastructure.
• Serves as a technical resource for multiple components of release management, able to resolve most problems/issues in their area(s) of expertise.
• Perform configuration management for all different applications running on all environments and manage their production release process that ensures reliability and availability of the platforms
• Develops and administers systems used to manage the code release phases of the application lifecycle
• Develops sound version control practices including branching and merging based on the current version control tools
• Installs software for and implements repositories, deployment automation and release management
• Designs processes and manages repository structures
• Automates the application build processes and coordinates releases of builds
• Performs as subject matter expert for these systems to other areas of IT
• Develops technical standards, identifies, evaluates, implements and supports new products; provides resolution for production and quality control system problems
• Supports applications on the following platforms: Windows, UNIX, Linux, Amazon AWS using the following tools: Subversion and Microsoft TFS Version Control and for Scheduling tool: Tivoli Workload Scheduler (TWS)
• Installation, on-going maintenance, upgrades, training and documentation
• System and maintenance management of source repositories for Subversion as well as identifying bug fixes and modifications for other Configuration and Release management systems
• Maintenance of configuration items relating to applications
• Ensures that Configuration, Build & Release documentation is available and includes latest version
• Identifies, diagnoses, reports and provides resolutions or recommends resolutions to resolve technical problems with production control software
• Required to be available to work on an on-call basis, weekends and off-hours
• Promotes teamwork and fosters cooperation to meet SLA’s and other departmental goals
• Consults with other systems groups about change and configuration management, testing, code deployments/releases, job scheduling and delivery distribution on multiple platforms
• Actively applies and promotes security and change management policies by identifying and addressing situations that are not in compliance
Basic Qualifications
• Minimum 6+ years of relevant experience
• BA/BS degree in Computer Science or related fields is desired or equivalent experience; or 4+ years relevant experience and MS degree.
• Experience in a large, production IT environment administering configuration management tool and developing/supporting tools such as Microsoft TFS, SVN, Git, ,Clearcase, ARA automic, JIRA
• Must have experience with installation and Administration of Any configuration management or version control tools such as Microsoft TFS, SVN, Git, , Clearcase, ARA automic, JIRA
• Technically savvy in Java, Unix, Perl, Phyton, Ruby, VM Ware, JBoss*Experience with any Service Management tools such as ServiceNow, Remedy, Maximo etc.
• Experience with version control systems
Additional Qualifications
• Ability to communicate with clients directly to understand and explain business and technical issues respond to user problems, explain new technologies, and present deliverables.
• Excellent verbal & written communication and organizational skills
• Writing, architecting and reviewing design documents
• Provides documentation on processes and trains MTS staff as required
• Provides documented process and escalation support to offshore group
• Forms productive networks with MTS colleagues, clients, the vendor community and peers in the industry.
• Possesses the ability to lead small to moderate sized projects, or works under more senior staff on a larger project.
• Contributes to implementation efforts, e.g. contributes to the analysis of vendor proposals, contributes to the project plan, coordinates vendors, builds and conducts tests, executes against the implementation plan, and tracks project progress.
• Demonstrates broad technical knowledge of multiple technologies, with an in-depth knowledge of one technology including its impact on other technologies.
• Possesses thorough understanding of current and future technology to quickly grasp new platforms, languages, and tools within their area of expertise. Ie DevOps
• Maintains an industry awareness of new developments in their area of expertise. Learns and applies new and emerging concepts very quickly such as - Change, Release Deployment, ITIL and Service Management concepts
• Applies technical skills independently and acts as a technical expert in one or more areas, providing technical issue resolution and technical coaching to other staff.
• Experience with SCM concepts – code lines, branching, merging, integration and versioning with tools such as Subversion, Microsoft TFS, Clearquest and any other version control tools.
• Demonstrates understanding of Release workflow models and continuous integration systems like Jenkins, Hudson
• Ability to collaborate with all areas of IT to construct sustainable and effective solutions
• Understands the business impact of different solutions, and can assess the tradeoffs between business needs, technology requirements and costs.
• Understands the organization’s products and services, and basic business processes.
• Understands business trends and the direction technology must take to support the business.
• Identifies opportunities to advance company’s strategy through new and emerging technologies and recommends to management.
Eligibility Requirements
• Interested candidates must submit a resume/CV online to be considered
• Must be willing to submit to a background investigation
• Must have unrestricted work authorization to work in the United States