Release Engineer bilingual - remote

Location: LATAM

3+ years of relevant experience


REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years Release Engineering experience within a micro-service environment, performing multiple production releases on a weekly basis
- 2+ years of tool scripting experience
- 2+ years working with Cloud Services Infrastructure (AWS preferred): Strong knowledge of the following or their equivalents: ? Docker ? Kubernetes ? ECS ? EC2 and VPC networking ? Terraform or CloudFormation
- 1+ year as administrator for CI tool (CircleCI, Jenkins, Bamboo)
- 2+ years as power-user/administrator on Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence) ? 2+ years power-user of Git/Mercurial (GitHub)

DESCRIPTION
Release Engineering supports the companies release process from inception to production and ensures quality has been embedded into all aspects of the SDLC before releasing products. As a Release Engineer, you partner with all departments (Engineering, Software Test, Product Management, Program Management) to facilitate and communicate release milestones, activities & announcements, including the facilitation of Incident Management procedures. The RE will also act as a representative of the Software Test & Operations Engineering Team in scrum meetings and provide input on how to provide better process, ensuring quality and consistency for the applications supported.

RESPONSIBILITIES
- Daily monitoring of project release dates and resolving schedule conflicts identified within an Agile based environment
- Create, maintain and evangelize release checklists that include all approvals from various departments to authorize a product release.
- Disciplined enforcement of release milestone definitions and checklist item completion.
- Implementing, maintaining, and invoking automation scripts used to build and our products to millions of customers.
- Contribute to the development of “CI/CD” pipeline
- Frequent communication with product line stake-holders to ensure full transparency on schedule expectations.
- Constantly improving processes to avoid the previous occasions.
- Management of usage scheduling and management of test environments. Qualities/Experience

WORK CONDITIONS
- Hourly rate: 30-40 USD
- Candidates must work around a 5am - 1pm PT shift. Slight adjustments are possible if more flexibility is needed.
- Candidates must be comfortable with covering an on-call schedule, which includes the weekend. The RE Team is a 24/7 operations team that rotates coverage weekly.
On-call Hours:
- Work Week: 2 on-call days per week max as primary or secondary.
- Weekends: 2 weekends a month as a primary or secondary.
Note: it is very rare where a team is called to action during the on-call timeframes, even more rare for these to happen on the weekend. During this time it's required to monitor the incoming alerts and incidents, and be available to respond to them. More flexibility can be negotiated. 
Overtime: Not paid, in case of surpassing the 40 hours/week there's a compensatory time off.
Category: Engineering
Language: English
Salary: 30-40 USD gross/hour
Job Status: Deactivated
Publish Date: 2023-09-13 14:20:27

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