Release Engineer

Does an opportunity to work with stakeholders of distributed systems sound interesting to you?

Would you enjoy managing how, and when distributed systems are deployed?

Join our Release Engineering team!

The Release Engineering Team consists of skilled professionals focused on creating exceptional user experiences for Akamai. They manage builds, releases, and compliance for essential services, ensuring seamless software deployment. By leveraging internal and external technologies, the team empowers stakeholders to efficiently develop and release software solutions.

Partner with the best

As a Release Engineer, coordinate cross-functional initiatives and transform engineering efforts into practical solutions. Utilise organisational skills to manage responsibilities effectively, ensuring seamless execution of tasks. Approach work with autonomy while maintaining focus on delivering results and driving impactful outcomes.

As a Release Engineer, you will be responsible for:

• Providing support to distributed teams globally with build systems, including administration, troubleshooting, and Jira management.

• Maintaining and monitoring software builds in a Jenkins CI/CD environment

• Enforcing SDLC and build/release processes with various stakeholders.

• Planning and maintaining the release calendar

• Communicating with stakeholders about progress, roadblocks, and timelines

  
  

Do what you love

To be successful in this role, you will:

• Bring 3+ years of relevant experience and equivalent educational background or comparable professional expertise.

• Facilitate effectively with exceptional communication skills, coordinating and planning activities across various teams.

• Have good organisational skills and be detail-oriented.

• Know project/release management tracking tools such as JIRA/ Confluence.

• Be familiar with CI/CD and version control systems such as Jenkins, Git and Perforce.

• Be comfortable working in a Linux/Unix environment.

• Have basic knowledge of scripting languages such as Python & Shell.

• Be a good team player who enjoys collaborating and solving problems with others.