Release Engineer at Ascendion Inc.

About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next. Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for the world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems – and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change-makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

Job Title:Release Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure code management, release process management, and continuous integration and continuous deployment.
• Support ongoing process improvements and enable software development and QA teams.
• Adopt best practices and work with Engineering leadership to evangelize release management best practices and promote a creative and collaborative work environment.
• Build the release engineering team and staff it as planned.
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates.
• Work with the Development and QA teams to improve the CI/CD pipeline and its integrations with code repositories, unit tests, integration and functional tests, static code analysis, SAST and DAST, build automation, container packaging, automated deployment of the applications in Dev, SIT, Staging, and Production.
• Work independently.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines
• 5+ years of previous release and/or project management experience
• Solid understanding of project management principles is preferred
• 5+ years of team and people management experience with groups no smaller than 5 engineers
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Experience with Git, Azure, or Jenkins or any other CI/CD Tools
• Experience producing deployments, run books, and implementation plans
• Excellent written, verbal communication and presentation skills are a must
• Ensure the code management, release process management, and continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Support ongoing process improvements and enable software development and QA teams
• Adopt best practices and work with Engineering leadership to evangelize release management best practices and promote a creative and collaborative work environment
• Build the release engineering team and staff it as planned
• Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates
• Work with the Development and QA teams to improve the CI/CD pipeline and its integrations with code repositories, unit tests, integration and functional tests, static code analysis, SAST and DAST, build automation, container packaging, automated deployment of the applications in Dev, SIT, Staging, and Production
• Independently perform job responsibilities

Location:Dallas, TX

Salary Range:The salary for this position is between $100,000 – $105,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits:The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [5 personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [10-15 days of paid vacation time] [6 paid holidays and 1 floating holiday per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System]