Software Configuration Engineer

Job Purpose : Responsible for building and maintaining all planned release candidatesthroughout the software development lifecycle. Responsible for source code management, repository management and the development and maintenance of DevOps build and release pipelines

Education: Engineering  Bachelor's degree Years of experience, both overall and any industry-specific experience needed:  2-4 Other qualifications/certifications.

Major Accountabilities

• Build and maintain all planned release candidates throughout the software development lifecycle .
• Source code management, repository management and the development and maintenance of DevOps build and release pipelines.
• Release process and change management process improvements
• Manage product definition, issue tracking and design description process
• Responsible for building all planned release candidates that are deployed to our development and production environments and maintaining them throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Responsible for source code management, repository management including branching and changeset integrations, and the development and maintenance of DevOps build and release pipelines.
• Continually improves the release processes to increase its reliability, capabilities and speed.
• Provides engineering effort estimates for moderate complexity defect corrections or software change requests.
• Manages the product definition, issue tracking and design description process with input from others. Communicates with internal stakeholders on decisions that impact their team.

Preferred qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering preferably in Computer Science or related field with 4+ years of related experience, Master's Degree with 2+ years of related experience.

• Proven experience in a build configuration engineer role or a DevOps role involving use of Bitbucket, Jenkins etc.
• Moderate knowledge in modern programming languages such as C/C++/C# or Python & agile methodologies
• Intermediate to moderate understanding on Linux
• Experience working with or in mature build pipelines and build infrastructure at scale.
• Moderate level of knowledge with continuous integration & continuous development
• Demonstrated success in technical proficiency, creativity, and independent thought.
• Strong verbal and written communications with ability to effectively communicate at multiple levels in the organization.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills

• Ability to multi-task and prioritize responsibilities.