Build and Release Engineer Full Time

Hire Resolve’s client is looking for a Build and Release Engineer to join their team in Durban, KZN. The candidate will work within their DevOps team and with their Front End Scrum teams automating and optimizing our software build and deployment system.

Responsibilities

• Automate and optimize our software build and deployment system, ensuring we measure and minimize the time from commit to customer
• Make sure build and deployment processes are following known best practices, coach and train developers on best practices that help them become more efficient
• Build, extend, and maintain the software release pipeline system, ruthlessly minimizing the feedback loop for developers and release time to for customers
• Plan and build Infrastructure-as-Code deployments
• Education of the team on the best use of build, deployment and other tools
• Repeatability of the release management process for the development team
• Scale pipeline to support more customers, systems and developers
• Building and maintaining the build and deploy pipeline environment
• Automating release to manufacturing steps, optimizing for continuous release and deployments to scale
• Raise build and deploy infrastructure issues and potential improvements with Operations and DevOps Teams
• Manage build and deploy infrastructure
• Liaise with Engineers in other teams on a regular basis on common issues
• Performing other software development tasks, such as developing code for internal and external web applications
• Working with QA and Dev team to push the envelope on known best practices for automation, always improving them
• Exercise technical consistency within the IT environment.
• Demonstrate culture of individual leadership and development and exhibit progressive attitude to technology and career

Requirements

• Matric
• A BSc Computer Science, Electronic Engineering, a BComm Business Information Systems (BIS) Degree, or a very high quality Technikon Diploma.
• 3+ years of work experience in a development environment
• Experience in a fast-paced, agile environment 
• Experience with Application Lifecycle Management tools (ALM)
• Experience with AWS Cloud and virtualization
• Experience with JavaScript, .Net, C# , Python, PowerShell, Bash, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes
• Experience with collaboration & development tools: SCM – Git distributed source control, Build – GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, Deploy – Octopus, Ansible, Salt, Terraform, Rundeck, Helm

Contact Hire Resolve for you next career-changing move

• Our client is offering a highly competitive salary for this role based on experience.
• You can send your CV to Gaby Turner at gaby.turner@hireresolve.us or Carmen Schafer at carmen.scahfer@hireresolve.us
• You can also visit the Hire Resolve website: hireresolve.us or email us your CV: itcareers@hireresolve.za.com

We will contact you telephonically in 3 days should you be suitable for this vacancy. If you are not suitable, we will put your CV on file and contact you regarding any future vacancies that arise.