• Senior Release Management Engineer-12064-Hybrid

    Shuvel Digital (Vienna, VA)


    Basic Purpose:

    Reviews Lower (non-Production) environments and associated activities to ensure compliance with Enterprise standards and the ISD Environments Management Directive, preventing, or documenting and/or remediating any known gaps. Additionally, ensure adequate preparation for implementation of IT Service modifications in the Production environments, in a manner that protects and enhances operational availability. This includes learning Navy Federal Release controls, while operating as a Release Manager, which entails assisting Release Owners manage their lower environments' work and providing oversight review and approval of their activities, leveraging the candidate's industry experience and knowledge.

    Specific Qualifications:

    + Has 7+ Years of experience working in IT Environments Management for large, complex and mission-critical applications

    + Demonstrates effective English communications skills, both written and verbal

    + Has significant understanding of software build and release processes, including associated risks and considerations

    + Has 3+ Years experience with automate testing, with hands-on experience developing test plans, case and associated scripts; DevOps experience is a plus

    + Has significant experience working within a team, and independently, performing root cause analysis of incidents

    + Works independently with minimal oversight (Mid-Level to Highly Experienced)

    + Possesses a degree or formal training in Computer Science and/or Information Technology

    + Holds certification in appropriate engineering disciplines

    + Has working knowledge ServiceNow ITSM

    + Demonstrates understanding of Lower / non-Production environments in an enterprise environment

    + Strong understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall, Agile methodologies (Preferably SAFe) and DevOps

    + Has significant experience with distributed systems architectures, possessing understanding of associated management tools

    + Experience in the development of medium to highly complexed distributed business applications

    + Strong understanding of Change & Release Management frameworks and processes

    + Strong understanding of Risk management and associated frameworks, preferably ISACA COBIT 5 and/or similar frameworks

    Highly Desired Experience With:

    + Finance Industry

    + ITIL concepts, especially Service Transition, with certification

    + DevOps and/or Agile concepts, with certification

    + Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

    + Testing, and related automation

    + Experience with ServiceNow as a power user and/or developer and/or administrator

    + Cloud computing, with specific understanding of: Azure

    + Security concepts: access control and authorization

    + Distributed technology (AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows): WebSphere, .Net, Lotus Notes, Java, SOA

    + DBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Progress and Teradata

    + Testing (Unit, Functional, Performance and Stress/Load), including Automation / Scripting

    + Automation/scripting: Python, Ansible, WSS, BAW, Pega, JavaScript, JAVA, etc.

    + Collecting and delivering detailed information, with analysis/interpretation, to personnel of varying levels, from engineer through management

    + Application development

    Nice to Have Experience With:

    + IBM Mainframe (z Series) configuration items including data, applications and infrastructure: COBOL, CICS, Assembler, REXX, JCL, FileAid, AbendAid, Strobe and SysView;

    + Reporting: Crystal Reports and Cognos

    + WebSphere Engineering and Administration responsibilities

    + Administering middleware application servers (WebSphere, MQ, IBM BPM, JBoss, .Net, etc).

    Specific Duties:

    + The engineer will assist in the management of multiple complex environments to ensure continuous systems availability, in support of IT services/products including build, maintenance and testing - throughout the release lifecycle

    + Participate in projects as an Environments/Release Management resource teaching, supporting, and reviewing designs, plans and execution of associated activities

    + Lead and participate in Team initiatives

    + Lead initiatives to help Release teams automate testing – coaching new scripters in best practices, while performing general testing knowledge transfer/management

    + Coach and mentor junior Release Team Members