The Build Engineer will work with the CI/Build team to relentlessly automate processes and environments that affect software engineers and quality assurance analysts.
This position focuses on software engineering within a DevOps team. Our goal is paving a smooth path from development through QA and staging to production deployments so our Development organization can easily and consistently develop, test, and deploy high quality software with minimal technical obstruction.
Core Responsibilities
- Work with an agile team to build infrastructure to provide highly-performance environments for a variety of purposes. The ability to spin-up development, automated testing, and manual testing environments are some of what's needed.
- Accurately estimate and plan work necessary to add new features, iterate existing features, and repair bugs
- Analyze complex technical and business problems with other engineers and help determine the best solution
- Collaborate with fellow engineers, analysts, and product owners
- Be an active part of WebAssign's technical culture
Requirements
- Experience with scripting languages like Perl, Ruby, or Python to enhance environment provisioning and build automation
- Experience with Continuous Integration environments like Jenkins/Hudson, Bamboo, or CruiseControl
- Experience with config management software (Chef, Puppet) to provision and maintain multiple systems and roles efficiently
- Experience with system provisioning tools like Kickstart, Cobbler, or BoxGrinder
- Ability to test environment provisioning and build processes
- Techniques for troubleshooting and resolving problems in a high-volume, always-available environment
- A strong desire to be part of a cross-functional development team. Work with other Build Engineers, Software Engineers, and QA Analysts in close consultation with Product Owners to solve problems iteratively
Preferred Skills and Experience
- Experience with systems administration
- Identifying one-off, manual processes and refactoring the process to automate and test it instead
- Working with a "tests first" or "red/green/refactor" mindset
- Working with local and remote environments, perhaps virtual machines or a public cloud
- Familiar with agile concepts like Scrum or Kanban
- Identifying and solving problems before they're noticed
- Experience with deploying Software as a Service applications
- Familiarity with the concepts of Infrastructure as a Service and Platform as a Service
Qualifications
- At least four years of software development experience, preferably with significant experience with environment automation and continuous integration
- A bachelor's degree. A degree in computer science, computer engineering, or related field is a plus
- A passion for iteratively facilitating agile software development
- A passion for helping teachers teach and students learn
Please send resume and salary requirements to jobs@webassign.net. No phone calls please.
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