Director of Release Management

About the Role

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the IT Production Support team, providing guidance and mentorship.
• Ensure uptime and stability for hosted client environments.
• Implement tools and automation for build, configuration management, continuous integration (CI), static and dynamic code analysis, deployment, and application monitoring.
• Develop and evolve infrastructure, server, deployment strategies, and testing to support quick turnaround of deployments.
• Collaborate with Monitoring Engineering to ensure all relevant KPIs are implemented within the monitoring framework.
• Work closely with Development, QA, Network, and Infrastructure Teams to ensure seamless and successful releases.
• Maintain and improve the automation of the release process while ensuring correct access controls and securing applications.
• Oversee the maintenance of Development, Test, QA, and Production environments with regards to application functionality.
• Lead Production Support activities during release migrations.
• Continuously improve infrastructure to be easy to deploy, scalable, secure, and fault-tolerant.
• Participate in capacity planning, tuning systems stability, provisioning, and scaling of the application infrastructure.
• Manage the on-call rotation and ensure adequate coverage.

Requirements

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 7+ years of relevant, broad engineering experience, including leadership roles.
• Proven ability to lead and manage cross-functional teams effectively.
• An obsessive desire to automate as much as possible.
• Exposure to the architecture and design of n-tier systems and micro-services.
• Experience in an agile development environment.
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk.
• 7+ years' experience with Linux and Unix systems.
• 7+ years' experience supporting services, micro-services, and n-tier systems.
• 7+ years' experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Python, Perl.
• 5+ years' experience with software automation technologies.
• 5+ years' experience with Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery practices.
• 5+ years' experience with Infrastructure-As-Code practices.
• 5+ years' experience with Version Control tools and platforms such as Git, GitHub, Subversion.
• 5+ years' experience with Collaboration platforms such as JIRA, Confluence, Wiki, ServiceNow.
• 5+ years' experience with Containerization technologies such as Docker, Pivotal.
• 5+ years' experience with Virtualization technologies such as KVM, Xen, VMWare.
• 5+ years' experience with Services such as Apache, NGINX, HAProxy, Varnish, PHP, Tomcat, Node.js, MySQL, MariaDB.
• Understanding of AWS Cloud technologies.
• Ability to work independently with substantial latitude for action and decision while maintaining focus on achieving outcomes.

Nice to Have

• Experience with HTTP, HTTPS, XML, SQL, REST API testing, and Linux.

Qualifications

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent.

Benefits & Perks

• Salary range of $132,000.00 - $231,100.00 (applicable to employees in New Jersey, New York, and California).
• Potential annual incentive opportunity, which may include a cash bonus and equity awards.
• Equal Opportunity Employer commitment and accommodations for disabilities.