Email Opening Title Manager, Release Engineering  EOE Statement We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.   Description Leads a team of Release Engineers who are responsible for the coordination of activities such as technical execution of software releases, and maximizing environment availability across development/test environments spanning software and infrastructure. Technical execution of software releases will also be performed in production. Resolves dependencies between development, testing and infrastructure groups across major programs to facilitate the smooth completion of application builds and deliveries. Develops, monitors, and manages to the department’s expectations, goals, objectives and financial needs to ensure that desired results are achieved. Hires, coaches, develop, and manage the performance of staff in support of achieving desired results. Builds relationships with other IT departments and business units, to facilitate cross organizational communication and project progress in order to meet business objectives. Acts as a catalyst for change to improve applications or processes, which benefits IT and/or the business units. Partners with IT Operations, Infrastructure, Release Management, Build/Deployment Automation, Development and Test organizations to continuously improve software releases and environment changes through automation and process improvements. Manages the Release Engineering function responsible for maximizing environment availability while performing technical execution of software releases to intermediate- and late-stage preproduction and production environments. Ensures frequent and open communication and shared use of a consistent set of best practices and standards among partner teams. Ensures the quality and timeliness of complex application turnovers to Release Management that meets requirements for deployment to intermediate- and late-stage preproduction and production environments. Coordinates Development and Environment Engineering resources as necessary to meet Release Management turnover requirements and schedules. Manages the creation and monitoring of change control and audit processes to ensure that there is consistency in the change control process and that it is being followed. Conducts post mortems on all to identify opportunities for improvement. Identifies critical areas within the environment for unit, system, performance, and user acceptance testing to ensure effective use of resources and timely deliverables. Manages the creation, maintenance, and monitoring of consistent environment and release engineering processes and procedures across the preproduction environments. Drives and leverages new technology to ensure consistency, communication, and collaboration across environments, leveraging development and testing processes and tools (ie: Test Automation Team; Deployment Team; Build Automation Team). Manages the creation of quality environment metrics to inform decisions. Manages the monitoring of preproduction environments for consistency, including production releases and ongoing development builds, infrastructure patches and changes. Manages the coordination/communication/documentation of software builds, infrastructure updates, upgrades, and patches across development and test environments. Manages questions received from development, test, and deployment teams. Researches/resolves issues and/or coordinates resolution of issues to complete project work and provide technical support for production applications including high impact production issues.   Position Requirements BS degree in Computer Science or Engineering is preferred. A minimum of 7 years of experience in Information Technology. In addition to the degree requirements, a minimum of 2 years in manager/supervisory responsibilities, project leadership, or the equivalent combination of education and experience is required. Self-directed Manager with experience facilitating tasks among multiple groups within a complex IT function. Excellent interpersonal, organizational, written and oral communication skills. Deep understanding of application release engineering, application debugging, and application life-cycle process management. General understanding of IT functions, development and testing best practice. General understanding of Service Oriented Architecture. General knowledge of source control repositories, such as Rational Team Concert (RTC) Source Control and the Git distributed revision control system. General knowledge of build and deployment automation solutions for software and infrastructure, such as Jenkins, XL Deploy/Release, and Puppet. Experience with web servers, application servers, database servers, and middle-ware components. Ability to influence peers, team player; adopt to change as well as be a change agent. Knowledgeable with process improvement techniques. Technical knowledge on PC, Windows, UNIX, Web and Citrix environments.   Category Management - Non-Sales   Location NY, Webster, Rochester Webster Office   Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time   Req Number MAN-15-00099   Open Date 2/25/2016   Hiring Manager(s) Lynn Watt   This position is currently not accepting applications. 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