Release Engineering, Director

About the Job

This position reports to the VP, Shared Engineering and will be responsible for leading a team of DEVOPS engineers. Director of Release Engineering will lead, research, define and architect solutions for Source Control, Build and Deployment automation, Continuous Integration, Environment Monitoring, and general developer tools and provide strategic and tactical directions to the team.

About the Team

The team is chartered with build/deployment/monitoring automation of mission critical products for our cloud offering using cutting edge technologies. You will be involved in all aspects of development cycle. Team members range in years of experience. Director of Release Engineering is expected to lead and direct continuous integration process and will involve writing code that is both functional and efficient. Also involved in diagnosing performance bottlenecks and implementing optimizations.

“One of the best things about Intralinks from a developer’s standpoint is you will always get to use the newest technology out there. You never get bored.”

-Quote from a Principal Applications Developer in our Waltham, MA office.

Responsibilities

• We are looking for an experienced DevOps Manager to lead our Devops and Release Engineering team. Our SaaS platform helps Enterprises across the world to securely collaborate and exchange mission-critical business content.
• Lead a team of highly skilled Release Engineers across global locations.
• Responsible for defining goals and priorities for the team and shaping the team’s career paths.
• Builds automation to compile, assemble and deliver complex source code into finished products or other software components, which involves:
• Determining whether to deploy new products or to delay their release.
• Ensuring that all finished products are prepared and delivered into the production environment in a consistent and structured fashion to minimize errors.
• Designing and implementing build scripts by adding new artifacts to bring all completed work to a production level.
• Evaluating and making recommendations on the selection of new release engineering tools and making improvements to existing release engineering standards and procedures.
• Provides technical expertise and estimates of time to complete work.
• Installs and maintains basic software in the development environment and participates in the evaluation and selection of new software products.
• Plans and automates the build schedule.
• Understands and implements IL SDLC from Product Requirements to Ops Rollout to Maintenance
• Promotes a DevOps culture in the engineering organization.

Qualifications

3+ years of experience managing and leading a technical team.

8+ years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree or 6+ years of related experience with a Master’s degree.

Required Skills:

• Expert knowledge of Public IaaS and PaaS clouds, such as AWS, Azure, CloudFoundry, Heroku or Private cloud systems, such as OpenStack and Kubernetes
• Advanced knowledge in using template languages for definition of infrastructure provisioning (AWS CFN, OpenStack HOT)
• Advanced knowledge of Linux systems including networking, security, and file systems
• Ability to write code using different scripting languages, such as Shell, Python, Perl
• Advanced skills in CI tools like Jenkins, AnthillPro, Nexus, Artifactory
• Advanced skills in source control tools like Git and Subversion.
• Experience with Static Analysis tools like Sonar, Veracode, Coverity, Fortify
• Experience with build management tools like gradle, maven, ant and RPM packaging
• Expertise in Docker containers for building and deployment of applications
• Experience with configuration management using automated frameworks, such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or SaltStack
• Experience with Atlassian tools setup and administration like Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Hipchat
• Strong networking background including network interface configuration, protocols, SSL/TLS certificates, web servers (Apache, Nginx)
• Knowledge in using OpenSource projects for building and delivering web applications
• Strong skills in diagnostics of problems involving networks and distributed components 
• Strong understanding of database technologies – RDBMS and NOSQL.
• Strong understanding of Storage Technologies.
• Advanced Interpersonal skills

Desired Skills:

• Distributed systems expertise including knowledge of resiliency, performance, and consistency tradeoffs
• Strong knowledge of Public IaaS and PaaS clouds, such as AWS, Azure, CloudFoundry, Heroku or Private cloud systems, such as OpenStack and Kubernetes
• Knowledge in using template languages for definition of infrastructure provisioning (AWS CFN, OpenStack HOT)
• vmWare technology (ESX, vCenter, vCloud, SDK APIs)
• Knowledge in using monitoring tools like Icinga, ManageEngine, Dynatrace, Splunk
• Development skills in Java, NodeJS.

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#WhyJoinIN:

Join a dynamic, motivated and hard-working team! This is an opportunity to get involved with the latest technologies, driving major transformative projects that propel Intralinks to the future.