Continuous Integration and Release Manager
Requirements:
• Four-year college degree, ideally in technical discipline
• Experience building and running continuous integration environments that support multiple development teams working toward towards common builds.
• Demonstrated release management track record experience ideally in a medium to large size web environment that includes generating builds.
• Solid understanding of the practical agile development. Experience with agile practices of continuous integration and unit testing
• Able to participate in technical discussions with open-source and Microsoft developers
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Experience using the Jenkins/Hudson Continuous Integration platform a plus
Responsibilities:
• Design and implement a continuous development and deployment process that is uniform throughout several development teams and across projects
• Implement Continuous Integration validation tests on code check-in. Design and implement, working with QA automation team, post check-in automated unit and system tests.
• Establish and document workflow. Train development, QA and production deployment teams.
• Manage tools. Perform maintenance and troubleshooting of build/deployment systems.
• Plan, coordinate and execute releases to QA, stage and production environments.
• Manage complex code branches from multiple development teams for current and future releases. Merge code and ensure successful builds with intended functionality.
• Ensure releases are documented for supportability and functionality and stakeholders spanning multiple organizations are notified in advance.
• Coordinate production releases with support, operations teams and business stakeholders.
• Oversee deployment, testing and business acceptance of release when transitioned to production during maintenance windows.
• Recognize opportunities for improvement and implement initiatives for change.
• Demonstrate awareness of business priorities and objectives and that role that IT play in enabling business objectives to be met.
• Build positive team relationships in an environment that includes multiple divisions and teams all working towards the same end goal.
Position is in Hampton Roads Virginia
Salary is commensurate with experience1781