Job Title: Sr. Build/Release Engineer (41415-BBHTHA-IOM-C-ARI)

Location: Palo Alto, CA 
Duration: 6 months

Emp. Type: W2 / 1099

Job Description

   

This is an exciting role for senior level configuration and build/release management professional will 

have the responsibility to develop and manage the build and packaging of system components for 

Endicia. The qualified individual will work at the center of a world-class R&D team to help improve how 

we do builds in a highly successful company. We are looking for an engineer who is passionate about 

automated builds, continuous integration, and love creating a world-class development, QA, Staging 

environments and automated build/deployment infrastructure.

• Significant experience developing fully automated buildenvironments with complex architecture 

based on MS Windows C#/.NET technologies

• Builds for desktop client SW, back-end server components, as well as Web-Site

• Significant Experience and expertise with the following buildtools or equivalents:

-     Advanced Installer, Installshield, WISE

-          Nant and MSBuild

-          Powershell or other scripting languages

  

-          Jenkins

-          IIS and client/server/web application build/deployment

-          Subversion, Jira, wiki

• Analyze existing buildprocesses and recommend changes to the buildenvironment or install

processes to create a fully automated build environment with on-demand build capabilities

• Automated deployments to Dev/QA/Sandbox and other env and Integrate test suites to 

automatically run regression tests

• Work closely with development architects to collect information on buildtools, processes and 

environments

• Work closely with operations staff to improve packaging for production deployment

• Co-ordinate with QA to integrate test data management processes and test suites into the build

environment

• Coordinate with DBAs to integrate DB scripts and Stored Procs management into the build

environment

• Must be technically strong, self driven and should be able to guide/lead the team rather than 

looking for directions.

Qualifications:

- B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent;  

- 7+ years experience in hands-on build/release automation and management in a Microsoft windows 

environment for desktop Client and Server SW

- Knowledge of software development methods, process, platforms, and tools. 

- Highly motivated and self-driven with the ability to multi-task and work efficiently with limited 

supervision.

- Strong working knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), in particular common 

branching and merging models

- Expert knowledge of version control systems such as Subversion, or similar systems

- Proficient with virtualization technologies such as VMWare 

- Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines.  Demonstrated ability to handle multiple 

competing tasks and assignments simultaneously 

- Work with Software and Technical teams, coordinate necessary documentation efforts. 

- Must have experience with and/or comfort/thrive working in a fast moving and rapidly changing 

environment.

- Effectively communicate status and issues to team members, and other internal stake holders

Desirable Qualifications:

  

- Experience with Agile (Scrum) project management methodology is a plus

- Knowledge of key architecture components and technologies (HTTP, HTML, SSL, Database, SQL, .Net, VB/C/C#/C++).

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