Job Purpose
Senior Engineer, Release Engineering will be responsible for ICE’s overall CI/CD strategy. This role is a combination of hands-on and strategic vision around build and deployment working closely with key stakeholders across the company. A successful candidate will understand the complete software/dev lifecycle and have a track record on developing complete release engineering solutions that will have a high impact and reach across the entire organization.
Responsibilities
- Partner with development, engineering, and operations teams to collect technical requirements and turn those into deliverables to help build a complete CI/CD strategy.
- Enhance Developer Experience by simplifying existing Build and Code Promotion processes.
- Review existing ICE tools and processes, identify gaps, and identify areas for improvement.
- Integrate and configure software components within build and deployment pipelines across bare‑metal, virtualized, and containerized Windows/Linux environments.
- Develop reusable templates, modules for CI/CD and create re-useable interfaces for consumers.
- Implement and maintain configuration‑management patterns and ensure consistency across environments.
- Follow market trends and DevOps movements and apply models of continuous improvement.
- Develop clear technical specifications and implement CI/CD components—including pipelines, templates, automation scripts, and deployment workflows—to support reliable and scalable build and release processes.
- Work closely with engineering teams by sharing clear documentation, technical insights, and guidance to support build, release, and deployment processes.
- Collaborate on Kubernetes-based build & deployment strategies and orchestration models to support scalable and resilient application delivery.
Knowledge and Experience
- BS in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
- 7+ years’ experience with CI/CD toolchains including expert level knowledge of one or many standard tools including, but not limited to, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps Ecosystem, Jenkins, Bitbucket, GitHub, JFrog Artifactory, Ansible, Terraform.
- Hands on experience on planning, building, and running a complete CI/CD pipeline on native/virtualized infrastructure.
- Hands On Experience with Build and Assembly technologies like, but not limited to Gradle, Maven, Conan, MSBuild.
- Ability to leverage AI productivity tools to automate repetitive tasks and summarize information.
- Experience with Distributed and Parallel Build and Test environments.
- Solid understanding of the basic principles of DevOps, CI/CD, agile and lean philosophies.
- Experience with Code Promotion and Lifecyle management.
- Experience migrating Legacy Applications to Containerized Microservices.
- Extensive experience of providing architectural direction to project development teams.
- Experience with 1 or more Programming Languages like Python, Go Lang, Java, .NET, C++, C#, or similar.
- Proficiency in Scripting Languages, like Bash, Groovy, PowerShell.
- Proven experience deploying and managing applications in Kubernetes environments, including Helm chart creation, namespace management, and resource optimization.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes RBAC, networking, and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana.
Preferred Knowledge and Experience
- Linux and/or Windows Administration Experience.
- Hands on experience with container technologies and orchestration including, but not limited to, Docker, Podman, Kubernetes, Tanzu, OpenShift.
- Experience creating, testing, and using API’s.
- Experience with Kubernetes Operators, Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs), and GitOps workflows is a plus.