Release Manager/Engineer at Axelon Services Corporation

Need to be onsite 3 days a week minimum when COVID restrictions are lifted.

This position is for a Release Manager/Engineer contractor with a possible conversion to Perm.

There are multiple environment hubs or channels which support various stages of development for specific businesses. These hubs are driven off a main parent hub which includes a data warehouse, queuing and event management engine, microservices/API's, ETL, Forms and Rules Engine. A release manager/engineer is needed to lead a team to manage the hubs/channels and environments.

The following are required skills, knowledge and capabilities:

• Accountable for the Release Management lifecycle, to include scheduling, coordinating, and management of releases enterprise-wise for multiple applications.
• Hands on as Release manager in an agile environment with multiple development environments within a single release train. Must be able to management multiple release trains/channels, including promotion through lower environments and for production/pre-prod/performance environments in an AWS cloud environment using DevOps/CICD
• Experience with building and implementing release management practice from scratch including processes, procedures, documentation as well as onboard team members.
• Be able to identify the major components of Release Manage and what they entail
• Effectively guide defect management and change management within the release management structure.
• Coordinate and manage offshore team directly (India and/or Romania)
• Highly organized, articulate, resilient to people pulling and pushing, good soft skills to get very busy people to do what needs to be done.
• Create integrated processes with existing Data Center Production Support personnel and other Delivery Partners.
• Experience with the automation pipeline (CICD), application release automation tools, Jenkins, Git, as well as automation overall.
• Must have experience with version control and branching strategies of APIs, microservices, sql, Database, and test data within a single release branch as well as across parallel branches doing different streams of work that must converge
• Should have working knowledge of Database (MySQL, SQLserver, NOSQL), SQL development, API and Microservices development processes
• Design and create Reporting Metrics and SLA's around the release management functions.