Release Management #022

Delan Associates, Inc•Tallahassee, FL

About The Position

Delan Associates, Inc. is seeking candidates for ongoing Release Management job opportunities in the Tallahassee, Florida area. The Configuration Management Analyst provides Configuration Management support for customer software baseline control. The role maintains baselines with automated CM tools and maintains project software and documentation inventories and configuration baselines. It establishes and maintains CM processes and procedures, defines and implements product-release procedures across the product life cycle, and serves on the Configuration Control Board. The analyst produces builds for testing and production, improves and automates build processes, advocates best practices, supports build-automation tools, maintains source-code change control, and performs distribution partner and corporate client set-ups. The role also updates and reports software deficiencies and change requests; maintains project notebooks and software-development folders; continuously tracks change requests, impact assessments, incident reports, and software change notices; measures and reports performance metrics; and provides management with technical performance data from the CM process. This is described as an intermediate professional-level role involving multiple products, activities, and projects, with occasional project leadership and possible coaching of junior technical staff. The Release/Build Engineer develops and maintains the build environment, source-code control system, and issue-tracking systems. The role creates and tests builds, resolves issues, labels files, communicates build status, and develops build scripts and installation procedures. It proactively streamlines the build process, potentially developing and maintaining automated builds with automatic notifications to responsible engineers about build and unit-test failures. The engineer may assist engineering management in selecting source-code management systems and other development and testing tools. This intermediate professional-level role works across multiple releases and projects as a subject-matter expert and project leader, and may coach junior technical staff.

Requirements

Configuration Management Analyst: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Configuration Management Analyst: At least 3 years of IT work experience in systems/applications development functions.
Release/Build Engineer: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Release/Build Engineer: At least 3 years of IT work experience, including at least 2 years related to release management.
Release/Build Engineer: Proficiency with project management, spreadsheet, and database query tools.
Release/Build Engineer: Subject-matter expertise in the release management process.
Release/Build Engineer: Knowledge of quality methods and procedures, PC, PVCS, UNIX, and scripting languages.

Responsibilities

Configuration Management Analyst: Support customer software baseline control efforts and maintain baselines using automated Configuration Management tools.
Configuration Management Analyst: Maintain project software and documentation inventories and configuration baselines.
Configuration Management Analyst: Establish and maintain Configuration Management processes and procedures, and define and implement product-release procedures throughout the product life cycle.
Configuration Management Analyst: Serve on the Configuration Control Board.
Configuration Management Analyst: Produce product builds for testing and production; strengthen, streamline, and automate build processes; advocate best practices; and develop and maintain build-automation tools.
Configuration Management Analyst: Maintain source-code change control and perform distribution partner and corporate client set-ups.
Configuration Management Analyst: Update and report software deficiencies and change requests; maintain project notebook libraries and software-development folders; and track change requests, impact assessments, incident reports, and software change notices.
Configuration Management Analyst: Measure and report success metrics against world-class measures and provide management with technical performance data from the Configuration Management process.
Release/Build Engineer: Develop and maintain the build environment, source-code control system, and issue-tracking systems.
Release/Build Engineer: Create and test builds, resolve issues, label files, and communicate build status.
Release/Build Engineer: Develop build scripts and installation procedures.
Release/Build Engineer: Identify and implement ways to streamline the build process, including development and maintenance of automated builds and automatic notifications of build and unit-test failures to responsible engineers.
Release/Build Engineer: May assist engineering management in selecting source-code management systems and other development and testing tools.
Release/Build Engineer: Work on multiple releases and projects as a subject-matter expert and project leader; may coach more junior technical staff.