Position: Release Engineer
Company: Freelance
Experience required: 3y
Category: Sysadmin
English level: intermediate
Published: 2020-12-01T00:00:00+02:00

Job purpose
• Responsible for Release Engineer for CRs delivery out of Ericsson ADM (Application development and Maintenance) team as well as CR deliveries and the code Fixes coming from Core Solution Delivery (Ericsson Implementation Project Team)
• The RCE (Release & Configuration Engineer) will strive to accelerate the delivery of new services while improving stability, performance, and uptime by working closely with the operations team and support adoption of DevOps principles.
• The RCE will also oversee the Quality Assurance team to ensure that the appropriate level of testing occurs to support high quality enterprise software releases into production.
• Responsible for RCE (Release & Configuration Engineer) for CRs (change requests) delivery out of Ericsson ADM (Application development and Maintenance) team as well as CR deliveries and the code Fixes coming from Core Solution Delivery (Ericsson Implementation Project Team)
• The RCE (Release & Configuration Engineer) will strive to accelerate the delivery of new services while improving stability, performance, and uptime by working closely with the operations team and support adoption of DevOps principles.
• The RCE will also oversee the Quality Assurance team to ensure that the appropriate level of testing occurs to support high quality enterprise software releases into production.
Duties and responsibilities
• Managing, planning, and negotiating releases and major configuration activities
• Managing the development of deliverables into production
• Distributing and prioritizing CRs delivery across different releases
• Preparing and communicating release and configuration plans to various stakeholders
• Aligning release schedules with all relevant stakeholders
• Coordinating releases deployment
• Measuring progress of software releases against time, quality and budget targets
• Managing multiple release branches including merges of changes between branches
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Automating release management activities through automation tools and scripts, which coversbuilding, integrating and deploying of software releases
• Planning release windows and cycles across different solution components
• Ensuring that releases are properly tested before placed into production
• Managing releases lifecycles across multiple production and non-production environments
• Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations
• Validating release notes
• Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules
• Managing complex application development projects
• In cooperation with Operations team improving stability and performance of applications
• Supporting the ADM Manager in E2E delivery of new solutions: new applications and modules for existing applications
• Supporting the ADM Manager in Software development lifecycle management: analysis, design, development, testing
• Support the ADM Manager in E2E Test plan and overall coordination of test execution
Skills
• 3+ years of experience in software delivery
• Strong experience in Release and Configuration Еngineer for Software Delivery
• Telco environments understanding and experience is mandatory
• Experience with waterfall (e.g. PMI) and agile (e.g. SCRUM) delivery frameworks
• Customer orientation with excellent understanding of service providers business
• Sense of urgency and quality as key targets in delivery
• Awareness of CMMI, Six Sigma, DevOps, CI/CD Processes
,• Strong background in managing/effecting change;
• Strong communication skills
• IT Managed Services and ADM Delivery exposure at mid management level
• Experience with common Config and Release Management Tools like IBM Rational Suite (RTC, Udeploy etc. ), Jenkins, Ansible, etc.
• Ability to execute at scale in a dynamic environment
• Ability to build effective collaboration within delivery teams
• Good verbal and written communication skills
Education
• University degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or equivalent experience in a related discipline
Working Hours
• Business Hours – Monday -Friday• Available on-call/shift to manage Business Priorities