Sr. Release Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If you can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT apply.

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Title: Release Engineer / DevOps Engineer

Location: Peoria, IL OR Chicago, IL

Workplace type: 100% onsite (M-F, 40 hour work week) + may need additional flexible hours

Type: Contract

Pay: $68-70.77 MAX/hour on w2

IV type: 2-3 rounds

Length: 12 months- possibility to extend

Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired

+optional benefits and 401K

Education & Experience Required:

• Bachelor's Degree with 10+ years experience OR Master degree with 8+ years experience

• 8+ years of IT release or delivery management.

• 6-7+ 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

• High Communication skills

Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:

• Consistent job hopping/ choppy tenure
• If candidate is not local but open to relocation on their dime and being there in office day 1, please make that clear on the resume.
• Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
• If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
• WD will look at candidates who are local over those who are open to relocating on their own dime.

Position’s Contributions to Work Group:

• client Digital has 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 client Foresight 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 client 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

Interaction with team:

• Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
• Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.

Work environment:

• Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago/Peoria - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.