Release Engineer

Ipreo is a global leader in providing market intelligence, data, and technology solutions to all participants in the global capital markets, including sell-side banks, publicly traded companies, and buy-side institutions.

• Liaise with developers during live support issues by applying knowledge from installations and configurations.
• Perform all code deployments for managed environments, including Production, QA, and Demo.
• Responsible for finding and escalating software issues that impede successful release.
• Create procedures and implement utilities to automate Software Configuration Management processes.
• Design and develop installation utilities for Windows and Web-based applications.
• Create quality documentation and artifacts surrounding the entire development lifecycle.
• Manage the software release schedule for both the product and development teams to follow, including prioritizing and scheduling code deployments.
• Work with the Operations team to ensure the system stability of all environments.
• Automation of routine daily tasks using PowerShell scripts for repeated actions.
• Provide administrative and technical support, including installation of software patches, and trouble-shooting of installation and configuration problems.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science/related field or equivalent work experience.
• Experience in a IT group within a software development company is preferred.
• Flexibility with schedule and to take on new responsibilities.
• Detailed oriented.
• Excellent written and oral communication. Effectively communicate objective and goals of the project to other internal groups.
• Ability to work under pressure and with strict deadlines.
• Must be available to work late evening and weekend hours with minimal supervision.
• Ability to work independently or in a team.

Any of the following experience would be advantageous:

• Hands on experience with PowerShell.
• Familiar with TFS, Team City, Hudson, Jenkins.
• Experience with continuous delivery tools: MSFT Release Management, Chef, Puppet.
• Experience with any software for deploying Microsoft Security updates.
• Experience with any of the following: .NET, C#