Our Opportunity:

Chewy is looking for a Release Engineer to join the Platform Engineering organization in Boston, MA. This engineer will help develop and execute the vision for their team, and thereby help Chewy to accelerate technological growth and reach new customers. This is a high visibility and high impact role with influence that cuts across all of Chewy. The Release Engineering team in the Platform Engineering organization develops and maintains the CI/CD infrastructure with which all Chewy applications and services are built and deployed. Further, this engineer will collaborate across the engineering organization to create best practices and to help to map the overall ecosystem for Chewy's system and service architecture as relates to CI/CD.

What You’ll Do:

• Build CICD pipelines for varied software applications and target platforms
• Migrate build and deployment configurations from legacy tools to a Jenkins AWS environment
• Configure CICD tooling using Terraform
• Compose Gradle build scripts for varied software applications
• Support all aspects of release engineering: source control, software builds, application deployments
• Support software developers and platform engineers for all Release Engineering-owned tools and processes
• Collaborate with other engineers to establish and refine org-wide best practices, service ecosystem, data flows, reference architectures, reusable modules, and tooling
• Contribute to the creation of technical and business case documents that establish the team's future roadmap
• Establish, champion, and implement standards and best practices that enable automated test and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD)
• Develop automated solutions to monitor and support our software development and release processes

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering related field or equivalent work experience
• At least 5 years of experience working in a Release Engineering role or similar
• Hands on configuration management of Jenkins CI systems
• Comfort working with varied software applications and teams
• Familiarity with other CI/CD systems like Bamboo and CircleCI
• Skilled at producing results with minimal requirements
• Public Cloud infrastructure expertise
  • Primary: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Secondary: Azure, Google Cloud Platform
• Experience working in a hybrid cloud environment
• Experience with configuration management and continuous deployment
• Experience with software development life cycle (SDLC) and agile/iterative and agile/scrum methodologies required
• Ability to collaborate with stakeholders in order to ensure development efforts align with stakeholder needs
• Experience driving discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management and risk mitigation
• Track record of identifying and driving opportunities for continuous improvement
• Comfortable working in cross functional and multidisciplinary teams
• Excellent written and spoken communication
• Position may require travel

Bonus (if applicable):

• Experience with Agile Scrum and/or Kanban methodologies
• Linux System Administration experience, ideally CentOS, RedHat or SuSE
• Experience with Akamai
• Experience with Service Oriented Architecture concepts/architectural approach
• Experience in e-commerce

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