Release Engineer

Full-time position only

Our client is an innovative healthcare services and technology company specializing in “bundled payment” programs. Bundled payments are an innovative new payment model that includes financial and performance accountability in episodes of care. Episode payment programs represent an important advance in the organization and financing of health care services in both the public and private sectors.

The company’s mission is to dramatically improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare delivery by developing and managing episodic payment programs in partnership with leading healthcare organizations.

We take our role seriously and constantly remind each other that every patient in our client’s program is someone’s mother, brother, father, sister, friend or other relative. Empathy for the challenges patients face after a hospitalization keeps us focused on the important role we can play.

Why this role?

If you are passionate about our mission and would like to impact the broader scope of the industry – using a grass-roots effort to drive collaboration and change in a stagnant and inefficient marketplace – this is an unique opportunity for you.

The Release Engineer works within an Agile environment on a system team, the individual will actively participate in story planning and detailed daily standups, while providing input for building out the delivery pipeline.

What will you do?

We are looking for someone with:

• Ensure, where possible, that an automated approach is being taken in all aspects of software build and management

• Work along the boundary between Development, QA, and DevOps to ensure that the release process is meeting their short-term and long-term needs

• Ensure build and release processes and procedures are followed

• Devise and operate the processes needed to ensure software builds are fast, automated and reliable

• Partner with the delivery teams to conduct and /or review release impact assessments and drive appropriate release level communications in a timely manner

• Develop the integrated minute-by-minute plan / Readiness Review for production release and facilitates walkthrough with teams

• Manage production implementation event (off hours required)

• Participate or provide input to support Release Planning meetings with the intent to align and influence scheduling decisions to optimize the Release strategy

• Assess, plan and assist the product teams with the design of release packages prior to deployment into the environments

• Facilitate discussion and conflict resolution on build and release issues

• Support an agile and iterative approach to development, testing, build and release

• Train and mentor team members on the build/continuous integration process and tools

• Works with other technical team members to resolve all release related issues

Are you right for this job?

• Significant experience gained in an IT operations or systems integration role

• 4+ years’ hands-on experience developing and supporting automated build, continuous integration (CI) and automated deployment environments and scripts

• Experience with AWS, Cloud Services

• Experience in a range of version control, continuous integration and build automation tools and approaches (including open source solutions) e.g. Jira, Bamboo, Maven, Hudson, Chef

• Experience writing implementation plans for installing software components on build agents, and working with application services team to execute the install

• Experience with build process, repository managers and branching concepts

• Experience developing in an Agile software development environment (Scrum) with cross-functional Scrum teams

• Excellent problem-solving, troubleshooting and analytical and skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Must have the ability to work independently with minimal direction and supervision