Senior Build Engineer - Columbus, OH/ Seattle, WA/ SFO

Position ID: NAL-1406-06
Job Type: Contract /Contract to Hire
Duration: 6 Months to a Year
Interview Type: Phone/ Skype/ F2F

MUST HAVE: At least 10 years of Build Experience.  Willing to learn

Job description:
Responsibilities:

• Subject Matter expert on Build & deployment of applications from Development through Production environments.
• Scripting and automating a wide variety of tasks like compiling, packaging, running tests & deployment to different environments for multiple releases.
• Executes scheduled application builds and deployments in IST/QA/PERF environments.
• Coordinate and support project merging process between different releases.
• Provide support to TechOps when releases are made to PRODUCTION.
• Setup and support release test environments including deployment of packages and reporting of changes.
• Continuously look to improve the scalability of the build and release operation
• Provide a stable framework for development, deployment, audit and accountability for software components
• Gathering, tracking, and supplying all the tools that are required to develop and build a particular piece of software.
• The responsibility for creating and applying baseline scheme into software and tracking of changes in a configuration management system.
• Ensure Approved & Identified changes are going to different environments.
• Identify all of the source, tools, environment, and other components that make up a particular release
• Implementation of continuous integration for test driven development.
• Overseeing the delivery of the software product to the end users and deploy the product as necessary on the basis of a documented Deployment Plan.
• Perform sanity tests and produce support material for deploying the product as applicable.
• Responsible for all the environmental issues and support Development and testing teams to make sure all the environments for always online for their testing.
• Support environment shakeout to fix environment readiness issues.
• Ensure that failing tests and build are being assessed and looked into by dev team
• Implement different tools to capture code quality metrics on build processes.

Environment Shakeout

• Automate the execution of all test cases, resulting in faster identification of issues, and improving the ability for environments to complete the shakeout process on time.
• Perform an initial baseline test on each environment prior to the start of the shakeout process.
• Identify and record all open issues and track their remediation during the shakeout process.
• Interact with Development to scope the release’s specific test cases.
• Execute release specific test cases, along with test scripts, used to baseline the environment.
• Leverage the team’s development background to research the logs and involve the required Development/Operations teams to resolve issues.
• Provide daily updates during the entire shakeout phase.
• Provide a detailed environment summary upon each shakeout’s completion.
• Perform validation on all infrastructure level changes.
• Prepare Metrics after every enterprise release
• Develop new automation scripts using Selenium

Required Skills:

• Expertise on continuous integration tools Jenkins, Buildforge
• Expertise on Build tools Ant and Maven
• Good experience on version control systems Subversion and Stash-Git.
• Good experience on application servers like WebSphere and Tomcat .
• Strong scripting skills including Shell and Perl.
• Comfortable with Mac, Unix/Linux, and Windows operating systems
• Good understanding of Atlassian products Bamboo, Jira, Confluence
• Excellent verbal and written communication skill
• Working knowledge/understanding on Selenium Webdriver
• Excellent communication skills

Nice to Have Skills:

• Linux Advanced concepts/Administration.
• Experience in DB programming MySQL

Interested candidates can send resumes to jobs@nallas.com with position ID in subject line