Release Engineer

Responsibilities:
Automate and optimize their software build and deployment system, ensuring they measure and minimize the time from commit to customer
Make sure build and deployment processes are following known best practices, coach and train developers on best practices that help them become more efficient
Build, extend, and maintain the software release pipeline system, ruthlessly minimizing the feedback loop for developers and release time to for customers
Plan and build Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
Education of the team on the best use of build, deployment and other tools
Repeatability of the release management process for the development team
Scale pipeline to support more customers, systems and developers
Building and maintaining the build and deploy pipeline environment
Automating release to manufacturing steps, optimizing for continuous release and deployments to scale
Raise build and deploy infrastructure issues and potential improvements with Operations and DevOps Teams
Manage build and deploy infrastructure
Liaise with Engineers in other teams on a regular basis on common issues
Performing other software development tasks, such as developing code for internal and external web applications
Working with QA and Dev team to push the envelope on known best practices for automation, always improving them
Exercise technical consistency within the IT environment.
Demonstrate culture of individual leadership and development and exhibit progressive attitude to technology and career

Education:
A BSc Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, a BCom Business Information Systems (BIS) Degree, or a very high quality Technikon Diploma

Experience:
3+ years of work experience in a development environment
Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment
Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools (ALM)
Experience with AWS Cloud and virtualization
Experience with cloud platforms is required
Experience with various development & scripting languages:
JavaScript
.NET, C#
Python
PowerShell
Bash
Hands on experience with various operating systems and environments:
Linux
Windows
Kubernetes
Experience with collaboration & development tools:
SCM Git distributed source control
Build GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins
Deploy Octopus, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Rundeck, Helm