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