Staff Software Engineer - Release Management (Hybrid/Onsite)

Job Description
VAS - Mobile Enablement Platform is seeking Staff Release Engineer to join our team, with a focus on supporting our release engineering functions.This role is integral to our software development process and will involve developing, managing, troubleshooting releases from commit to production.
The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, a deep understanding of software development lifecycles, and a commitment to collaborative problem solving and quality product delivery.
Essential Functions
- Handle the daily responsibilities of supporting the build and release needs of agile scrum teams.
- Assist in scheduling and implementing changes to the build / release / version-control processes required to enforce and apply build and release engineering best practices
- Provide guidance to cross-team and team members in release best practices and procedures
- Support all pre-production, managed environments for middleware services and applications
- Work with cross functional, geographically distributed teams to provide 24X7 deployment support across multiple non-production environments
- Responsible for deploying code and other proactive maintenance activities to keep the services up and running
- Responsible for owning a specific deployment problems and provide active coordination between various groups including internal and external vendor support groups in resolving a specific problem
- Responsible for working with Security, Operations, Development Operations, and other teams to understand changes to the existing production environment on an ongoing basis and for environment support
- Preserve and maintain service availability, performance, integrity, capacity and security.
- Participate and determine root cause for service failure and support escalation
- Provide appropriate feedback to leads about the progress and timeline related to specific deployment problem
- Maintain and suggest improvements to the simple deployment scripts and tools
- Participate in the decision making of success or failure of applications systems to be deployed in production
- Champion and Evangelize the vision for the CM and Release Strategy
- Update documentation that communicates standards and best practices of the release engineering team
- Implement metrics, Success Factors and Key Performance Indicators for the process and the team
This is a hybrid position. Hybrid employees can alternate time between both remote and office. Employees in hybrid roles are expected to work from the office 2-3 set days a week (determined by leadership/site), with a general guidepost of being in the office 50% or more of the time based on business needs.