Release Manager - Alpharetta, GA - Georgia IT Inc.
Alpharetta, GA
About the Job
Position : Release Manager
Location : Alpharetta, GA
Type : 06 months contract
Rate : DOE
In this role, you will
Location : Alpharetta, GA
Type : 06 months contract
Rate : DOE
In this role, you will
- Work with teams to establish initial Release Management best practices, leading workshops and assisting in initial pipeline buildouts
- Evangelize, communicate and be a champion for proper versioning, deployments, change risk management, and operational excellence across many development teams
- Evaluate existing continuous deployment and validation practices and tools, determining how they translate to an enterprise solution
- Establish best practices and the development/implementation of an enterprise release roadmap
- Develop tools in support of versioning, release management, build, testing, deployment, and configuration management
- Leverage strong technical background and effective communication skills to drive DevOps adoption across multiple departments, including development, operations, customer support, account management, FGS and FTS
- Work with development and operations to continue to educate and evolve the DevOps best practices to take advantage of new features that may provide a more secure, scalable, and highly available platform for our customers.
- Interact with key vendors such IBM, Client, Microsoft, and others to understand technology improvements related to the existing DevOps toolsets and lead efforts related to proof-of-concept opportunities, workshops, and benchmarks.
- Interact with other departments in a positive, constructive manner to accomplish tasks and overall job responsibilities
- Promptly complete administrative tasks as required such as time reporting, project status tracking and billable requests.
- Other duties as assigned by the manager.
- 10+ years of overall IT experience
- Bachelor's Degree in information technology or similar area of study
- Solid understanding of best practices in support of Continuous Deployment including version management, artifact maintenance, release management, and operational excellence
- Firm grasp of common deployment strategies including blue/green, zero-downtime deployment, traffic shaping, canary, and rollback
- Experience designing and building automation solutions
- 2+ years experience with some of the following toolsets:
- CI Server Jenkins
- CD Tool Harness, Octopus
- Artifact Repositories Artifactory, Nexus
- Source Control Github
- Build Tools Team Foundation Server (TFS), MSBuild, Ant, Maven, Gradle
- Web Server IIS, Apache, Tomcat
- Automated Functional Testing Selenium, Cucumber, Sauce Labs, Client Unified Functional Testing
- Automated Performance Testing LoadRunner, Gatling, NeoLoad, Newman, JMeter
- Static Security Analysis Fortify, Webinspect, Sonatype Lifecycle
- Static Quality Analysis SonarQube
- Cloud Computing Models
- Containerization Docker, Kubernetes
- Excellent scripting knowledge and ability to execute through Python, Bash/Shell, PowerShell, Go
- Good understanding of common principals related to computing, networks, firewall, security, and authentication
- Ability to work and influence across functional teams with different mind sets, cultures, operating styles, and decision-making frameworks
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Source : Georgia IT Inc.