Principal System Engineering

AT&T•Atlanta, GA

8h•$198,040 - $211,900•Onsite

About The Position

Responsible for driving the direction of collective teams (cross functional and internal) to realize primary objectives and solutions using top level communications, methodologies, and tooling. Support the Director of Release Management in defining, creating, improving, maintaining, and implementing release process using data driven analytics to substantiate decisions that are integral to the organization’s key goals and objectives. Collaborate with Senior Leadership, Development, and Product Management in defining high level release Roadmap/Plans assuming overall responsibility for successful execution of the approved Release Plan. Align Release Governance’s best practices/recommendation with approved Release Calendar and Release Management Dashboards. Establish key metrics to measure and monitor progress of releases integrity. Carry out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization, demonstrates a thorough understanding of a major process flow, its components, and issues, helps others learn the tools and techniques for process value analysis. Coordinate detailed release schedules by analyzing dependencies, managing backlogs, and accounting for infrastructure updates, ensuring all timelines were aligned and achievable. Collaborate with software configuration management to ensure overall sequencing and integrity of all environment planning and usage as required by the delivery teams and production implementation. Work with Infra Design team to formulate environment strategy according to industry best practices. Facilitate release retrospectives to improve the Release Management processes while continuously adapting new methods for overall improvement of the continuous delivery process and methodology. Incorporate automation and AI into the release process so the team can operate more efficiently. Ensure that the software delivery process is not only efficient and reliable but also aligned with the organization's goals for innovation and quality. Plan the deployment of application components/microservices with related deliverables. Communicate the release-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements. Act as liaison between different teams, organizations, and stakeholders. Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage/mitigate them, such that the scope scheduled, quality of the release and end customer experience is not affected. Uncover issues and track the progress. Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule. Lead deployment activities to deploy the software successfully including clearly documented run books, point of contacts and mitigation decisions and plans. Maintain information, leveraging tools and data related to build, test and release activities. Collaborate across teams and influence others to meet objectives. Innovate and drive continuous improvement in release engineering. Define, plan and manage release life cycle in an Agile framework. Perform development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment. Utilize Microsoft Application Development Operations (MS ADO), Jira iTrack, Power BI, Jenkins, GitHub, SharePoint and Wikis.

Requirements

Requires a Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent degree in Information Systems or Computer Science and 3 years of experience in the job offered or 3 years of experience in a related occupation innovating and driving continuous improvement in release engineering; defining, planning and managing release life cycle in an Agile framework; performing development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment; and utilizing Microsoft Application Development Operations (MS ADO), Jira iTrack, Power BI, Jenkins, GitHub, SharePoint and Wikis.

Responsibilities

Driving the direction of collective teams to realize primary objectives and solutions.
Supporting the Director of Release Management in defining, creating, improving, maintaining, and implementing release process.
Collaborating with Senior Leadership, Development, and Product Management in defining high level release Roadmap/Plans.
Aligning Release Governance’s best practices/recommendation with approved Release Calendar and Release Management Dashboards.
Establishing key metrics to measure and monitor progress of releases integrity.
Carrying out process evaluation, diagnosis, and optimization.
Coordinating detailed release schedules by analyzing dependencies, managing backlogs, and accounting for infrastructure updates.
Collaborating with software configuration management to ensure overall sequencing and integrity of all environment planning and usage.
Working with Infra Design team to formulate environment strategy according to industry best practices.
Facilitating release retrospectives to improve the Release Management processes.
Incorporating automation and AI into the release process.
Planning the deployment of application components/microservices with related deliverables.
Communicating the release-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements.
Acting as liaison between different teams, organizations, and stakeholders.
Identifying the risks that can delay the release and manage/mitigate them.
Uncovering issues and track the progress.
Creating plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
Leading deployment activities to deploy the software successfully.
Maintaining information, leveraging tools and data related to build, test and release activities.
Collaborating across teams and influence others to meet objectives.
Innovating and driving continuous improvement in release engineering.
Defining, planning and managing release life cycle in an Agile framework.
Performing development, testing, system architecture, or software configuration and deployment.
Utilizing Microsoft Application Development Operations (MS ADO), Jira iTrack, Power BI, Jenkins, GitHub, SharePoint and Wikis.

Benefits

Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
401(k) plan
Tuition reimbursement program
Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
Paid Parental Leave
Paid Caregiver Leave
Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
Adoption Reimbursement
Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
Life and Accidental Death Insurance
Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
Extensive employee wellness programs
Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone