SCM Release Engineer

Dublin  ‐ Onsite
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SCM Release manager

6 month contract
Dublin City

Role Summary:

A leading banking institution is seeking an experienced SCM release engineer to join their team. The ultimate goal for the successful individual will be to use their expertise to reduce the delivery time of new DEVOPS tools and processes. This exciting role requires previous experience working with the Atlassian suite coupled with a strong knowledge of branching, merging and quality processes.

Responsibilities:

  • Perform the following activities for the assigned projects/releases:
  • Perform configuration management, software build and release engineering activities
  • Where possible automate all activities as part of the continuous integration process
  • Provide support on software configuration management and continuous delivery best practices
  • Identify all relevant configuration items in coordination with project managers and project Leads
  • Ensure all configuration items (docs, S/W, environment config & database) are regularly version controlled
  • Creation and management of the project's SW/Application baselines under version control
  • Verifies the project team adheres to the approved branching, merging and quality processes
  • Perform activities pertaining to setting up, maintaining and managing environments for development, testing and pre-production releases
  • Provide inputs to the Infrastructure team for creation of environments - hardware and S/W requirements
  • Prepare and deploy all agreed deliverables - adhere to all code freeze and deployment schedules
  • Verify smoke tests are successfully passed before any deployment handover
  • Report on all environmental interface changes
  • Review & maintain security access control mechanisms for the ETH tools, S/W baselines, project environments and LAN directories
  • Track and record all change requests, requirements, stories & defects associated with each build/release
  • Ensure all required build, release and environment documents are completed and maintained to ensure repeatability, traceability and accountability
  • Produce SCM &environment related weekly reports and metrics
  • Verifies all live fixes are merged and tested prior to testing sign off
  • Provide tool training and documentation for Enterprise Tooling Hub (ETH) users
  • JIRA, GIT Stash, Jenkins + Zephyr, Maven, Nexus, Sonar, Selenium & Confluence
  • Help with the rollout and migration of new toolset
  • Provides 1st line support to resolve issues pertaining to ETH Toolset, SCM process, environments and databases

Mandatory Skills:

  • 2 years experience building, deploying Java/WebSphere applications and controlling Java related test environments
  • 2 years experience using Linux/Unix Shell Scripting
  • 3 years experience of application life cycle best practices for example CMMi, ITIL, SCRUM
  • Strong working knowledge of branching and release management techniques
  • Self-motivated, analytical thinker with a passion for quality
  • 2 years experience using the following tools - JIRA, GIT, Jenkins, Zephyr, Maven, Nexus, Sonar, Selenium & Confluence
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Start date
n.a
From
Hays IT
Published at
11.04.2015
Project ID:
883091
Contract type
Freelance
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