DevOps Release Engineer

Sherwin-Williams - Cleveland, OH

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Cleveland, OH

Chemical Manufacturing

About the position

The Release Engineer role is responsible for supporting the design, development, and maintenance of automation workflows to accomplish automated Continuous Integration and Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to support software product releases. The incumbent assists with implementing and supporting the platforms that are foundational to accomplish the automated Continuous Integration and Deployment pipelines. The incumbent contributes to the design and implementation of deployment pipelines and helps document deployment scripts/programs for installation of products, including building infrastructure from code, compilation of software code into artifacts, and deployment of artifacts/configurations to various software environments. Additionally, the incumbent facilitates the execution of the DevOps toolchain including configuration management, release, and deployment in alignment with release management policies and standards that have been defined. The role collaborates with project teams to determine an appropriate build schedule and then initiates the build and packaging process. This role will work in partnership with other team members to implement process improvements and support developers for software package registry and delivery.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain automated workflows/pipelines to support the deployment of software packages, artifacts, and configuration into various environments
• Support the implementation of foundational platforms, and gain an understanding of how these platforms are used for automated deployment workflows/pipelines
• Draft scripts and programs to automate and streamline the deployment process for infrastructure, code, configurations, and configurable artifacts for software products and DevOps toolchain
• Analyze the automated pipelines' reliability and scalability, identifying potential improvements to support the organization's demands
• Participate in discussions with project teams on the appropriate build and packing schedule, and work to develop the schedule
• Provide senior team members with reports of all software changes, and the downstream impacts on the Configuration / Release engineering process
• Identify alternative tools and processes to improve efficiency and reduce errors across the development platform
• Collaborate with the development team to analyze build errors and provide support to implement corrective actions
• Manage version control of tools and scripts effectively, ensuring proper updating and archiving
• Support developers to ensure smooth coordination and successful delivery of the registered packages

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Information Technology, or in lieu of a degree, at least 3 years of experience in software development or software release engineering
• 2-4 years experience in Configuration/Release or Platform Engineering
• Experience with Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) tools
• Experience in maintaining tools and platforms for source control, artifact & package management, deployment pipelines
• Moderate understanding of software build and release management processes
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies, SDLC, and DevOps Methodology
• Familiarity with container technology
• Familiarity with scripting languages

Nice-to-haves

• Certification in Middleware

Benefits

• Relocation Package available within company policy
• Flexible work schedule with the option to work remotely two days a week
• Full-time regular employment status