SW Release Engineer - SQL, UAT, ITIL, - become tech lead
Take part in one of the most dynamic, fast paced environments using the latest emerging technologies. Work as the gatekeeper between development and production releases for a global company supporting users around the world. Build in depth knowledge of ITIL standards and become a team lead depending on your success
Join a highly successful development centre that is aiming to be the best on the Czech market and offers a rewarding opportunity to build a career in investment banking. This environment is where the most challenging, ambitious, fast paced projects are made, this also means creating a career with an elite team of the best specialist on the market.
As a release coordinator you will take part in ensuring successful deployment, impact analysis for releases, roll back planning plus act as the gatekeeper between development, testing, and production environments. This position is highly important to ensure every release is completed and monitored to guarantee smooth business flow.
The role requires a strong technical background from development or software implementation, working within a global company environment and distributed team structure. Understanding of code and databases is needed. You should be a self starter, problem solver with commitment to work within a banking environment.
Additional duties will include:
• Controlling release of software into production environment
• Use of source code control repository (ClearCase) to control individual streams of work
• Adhere to strict procedure and governance & understand their importance
• Preparation of release plans and release test criteria
• Liaise with development to understand impact of changes
• Coordinate of resources from various support team to assist with release
• Notify business and other IT teams of impact of release and liaise with them to obtain UAT sign-off
• Notification to business and IT teams on impact and progress of release
• Maintenance of and suggesting improvements to release procedures and release control software
• Able to communicate clearly on technical issues
Environment management:
• Responsible for the control and maintenance of multiple testing and pre-production environments.
• Manage environment refreshes from production.
• Assign suitable environments for development & testing efforts to best avoid conflicts.
• Liaise with external teams to meet their testing requirements.
• Work with development team to determine future hardware requirements.
• Manage and monitor JIRA tickets for the development environment.
• Spearhead in environment management checklist and processes
• Assist development & downstream teams with UAT Support
Requirements for the role will include:
• Strong experience in running controlled code releases into production environments
• Knowledge of relational databases (MS-SQL, Sybase)
• Strong understanding of ITIL processes (configuration and change management)
• Experience with source code control systems (ClearCase or Perforce)
• Excellent communicator, fluent English required, strong mind set for problem solving
In return you will be offered the opportunity to work for a globally renown group within an international and highly professional environment. Above excellent salaries will be provided based purely on experience and backed by strongly motivated bonus package that relies only on your own talent and success. Additional benefits will include 5 weeks vacation, meal vouchers, excellent office location close to public transportation, extensive training in the area of investment banking and the use of English on a daily basis (Czech is not required). Last but not least you will be joining a company using the latest emerging technologies available on the market!
For immediate interviews, send your CV in English to: andrew@ictrecruit.com
