Application Release Engineer

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 2+ years of experience in software development industry
• Good English verbal and written communication skills
• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion
• Demonstrated analytical skills in complicated software project development and deployment
• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must
• Experience in SOA or ESB would be a plus

Responsibilities:

• Maintains the release schedule for all software services
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release, schedule and quality
• Negotiate, manage all release activities, including ticket list, deployment window
• Coordinate the release activities, including the deployment plans and UAT guideline and notification
• Participation in deployment operation, log any changes made on prod, answer enquiries related to the release being deployed, participate in troubleshooting and bug fix if necessary
• Conduct release readiness review meeting, release retrospective meeting
• Co-ordinate developers to investigate bugs
• Review specs, identify changes in release and communicate release details
• Continually work towards making improvements in the release process
• Maintain a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists
• Research and employ new release management techniques, configuration management methodologies