IT Software Engineer (Release Manager) | Chicago/Peoria, IL |

Startekk Inc

IT Software Engineer (Release Manager) | Chicago/Peoria, IL |

Chicago, IL
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Job Description

    Our client is seeking an experienced Release Engineer/Release Manager to support the build and release lifecycle of a modern cloud-based customer-facing application. This role will collaborate with Scrum Teams, QA, Product Owners, Infrastructure teams, and Business stakeholders to deliver high-quality releases for global users.

    The ideal candidate will have strong experience managing enterprise releases, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, AWS cloud technologies, and Agile delivery environments.

    Key Responsibilities

    Manage and coordinate end-to-end release cycles across development, QA, UAT, and production environments.

    Monitor CI/CD pipelines to ensure successful builds and deployments.

    Create and manage UAT and production release plans.

    Coordinate release readiness activities with QA, Infrastructure, Product, and Business teams.

    Facilitate Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and manage release cadence.

    Troubleshoot build and deployment issues.

    Support DevOps activities and cloud infrastructure operations.

    Improve deployment processes, automation, release quality, and delivery timelines.

  • Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.

    10+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree.

    8+ years of experience with Master’s degree.

    Preferred Qualifications

    Experience working with multiple Scrum teams.

    Experience as Release Manager, Scrum Master, Program Manager, or Project Coordinator.

    Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

    Strong presentation and communication skills.

    Ability to support flexible working hours based on release schedules.

    Additional Information

    8+ years of IT Release Management / Delivery Management experience.

    6+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps tools.

    Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

    Experience with Azure DevOps.

    Hands-on AWS experience including:

    ECS

    EC2

    EBS

    S3

    Glacier

    RDS

    VPC

    Route53

    ELB

    IAM

    CloudFront

    CloudFormation

    CloudWatch

    SQS

    SES

    Lambda

    Strong Python programming experience.

    Experience with automated CI/CD and BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber.

    Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.