Cloud Release Engineer

The Release Engineer is accountable for the delivery of LexisNexis Legal & Professional GTO/RETS services supporting an application portfolio (Lexis and Lexis Plus) and other services within the New Lexis Platform. The Release Engineer is responsible for the co-ordination and deployment of components that make up the New Lexis Platform. Release Engineer plan, schedule and are the gatekeepers of the software build and delivery process. Requires great attention to detail and a complete understanding of the software build and delivery process. The release Engineer interacts with a variety of different roles throughout the software development lifecycle. On a daily basis, they communicate with IT Ops, test managers, dev managers, and the project management office. Individuals in this role also need to report senior IT management and keep those parties up to date on the project status.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 1 year experience in IT industry or related field
• Knowledgeable and understanding of Cloud concepts and technologies (AWS, Kubernetes, and Azure).
• Knowledgeable in Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery - CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Artifactory and alike)
• Knowledge and understanding of basic Unix/Linux, Windows server operating systems
• Solid interpersonal, proactive, teamwork, communication and follow up skills (verbal and written) required with different levels of hierarchy.
• Ability to monitor, define, analyze and resolve issues both effectively and efficiently in a high-pressure production environment. 
• Familiar in Cloud application performance monitoring (Splunk, Datadog, Coralogix and alike)
• Identify areas key areas to automate
• Understanding of basic JAVA middleware and web server concepts and technologies.
• Knowledge and understanding of database concepts including basic troubleshooting, high-availability, clustering and disaster recovery, including no-SQL database
• Ability to quickly learn and apply enterprise AI tools and technologies to support technical workflows and business objectives.

Accountabilities:

• The release engineer is responsible for building, enhancing, and overseeing deployments pipelines for the Lexis Platform. This includes: Automating the deployment process for all components (frontend, java middle tier, and ML) by enhancing the release pipelines

1. Running change review meetings
2. Screen changes to ensure deployment steps are documented and quality certification meet requirements
3. Pre and post release communications
4. Lead the release and triage incidents/issues during deployments
5. Conduct retrospectives and/or follow ups for release related issues until closure of the problem.
6. Create and maintain release related documentation

• Fully understand the deployment pipelines
• Troubleshoot issues with pipelines during releases
• Own the release governance for the Lexis Platform.

1. Schedule, coordinate, and manage releases for multiple applications that exist within the business
2. Work closely with IT release managers and build a release calendar
3. Assist in project management to ensure milestone goals are met
4. Manage and mitigate risks that relate to scope, quality, and schedule
5. Conduct project related interviews such as: Release readiness reviews, Business go/no go reviews & Milestone reviews

• Discuss release scope and/or roadblocks in Release advisory board meetings
• Provide reporting to Senior IT Management to keep them up to date
• Participate in Continuous Improvements initiatives using Lean Six Sigma methodologies
• Enhance release process to move teams towards Continuous Delivery / DevOps Elite
• Collect and report on release related metrics