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Release Engineer

  • Location:

    Manchester

  • Sector:

    Software Engineering

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £30k - 40k per year

  • Contact:

    Ashley Davis

  • Contact email:

    ashleydavis@unitingcloud.com

  • Contact phone:

    01782 557389

  • Job ref:

    o308234ud

  • Published:

    over 1 year ago

  • Duration:

    Permanent

  • Expiry date:

    2023-06-26

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

Release Engineer

Hybrid Working - 2 days in Manchester Office

£30,000 to £40,000

As a Release Engineer, you will be responsible for running of the software development life-cycle of our keys product/services. Release Engineers manage, run, and improve our development and testing processes, working closely with the product managers and development teams to understand and test new functionality. They also identify issues during the development of new features and co-ordinate the timely deployment of fixes.

Responsbilities: 

  • Design and develop code that glues together various pieces of our build and test pipeline
  • Update build infrastructure for releasing new versions and variants
  • Maintain and monitor software build and maintain a Jenkins CI
  • Support a the wider business function and development team
  • Troubleshooting software build issues

Skills:

  • Proven work experience as a Project Coordinator or similar role
  • Experience in project management, from conception to delivery
  • An ability to prepare and interpret flowcharts, schedules and step-by-step action plans
  • Solid organizational skills, including multitasking and time-management
  • Strong client-facing and teamwork skills
  • Experience or knowledge of GIT
  • Proven understanding of SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle)

Personal Skills:

  • Highly self motivated, reliable with a demonstrable passion for Open Source and the office domain
  • Able to work from home office, managing own time effectively
  • Self learning skill to get sufficient knowledge of the company services, business model, project delivery life-cycle and other related technical domains
  • Good interpersonal skills
  • Good English language skills (both verbal and written)
  • Ability to work and communicate