Software Release Engineer

The Software Release Engineer will be working in the newly established Release Management Hub team in Makati (Metro Manila), taking care of Avaloq software releases for our clients in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

We build, configure, and deploy various software artifacts in test, integration, and production environments. You will be responsible for a defined set of customers and support them during various SDLC phases and go live.

Your key tasks

• You will be involved in planning and rollout of various Avaloq products in the controlled environments.
• You will have end-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of releases into the Live environments.
• Accountable for release scope validation with project managers and delivery managers.
• Ensures technical validation of all releases are completed and reported for the Go Live.
• Create and manage implementation plan, release meetings and production cutover.
• Taking responsibility for software packaging, code merge and log analysis of Avaloq core and front platforms
• Collaborating with specialists of different areas for the implementation of cross-domain activities
• Building trustworthy relations with internal and external stakeholders as developers, Project Managers, Test Managers and Client Managers.
• Document and educate the users on release, configuration, DevOps, and deployment management best practices.

Please take good note of the fact that you will work with clients based in Europe; for this reason, we have established shifts to accommodate various time zones. These include regular office hours (Manila time), mid-shifts (up to 1:00 AM), as well as on-call availability services.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science/Engineering Degree.
• 3 to 5 years of Release Management and/or Configuration Management experience, ideally in the banking and financial services industry.
• Experience with Unix, Oracle, SQL, Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus, Gerrit, Bitbucket or other source code management tools.
• Know-how in analysing technical problems and automating recurring administrative activities.
• Conflict resolution, stakeholder management, experience in multi-cultural matrix teams.
• Good written and spoken English.
• Open to work in weekend/shifts and to extended support beyond shifts unscheduled hot fix releases.

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Knowledge about Avaloq Front Platform, Mobile Application releases.
• Avaloq ICE Release Stream creation, cutover.
• Shell scripting, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Container Platform.
• Agile / Oracle Cloud / ITIL certified.
• Be used to fast pace and complex environments.
• At ease in writing technical documentations (e.g. on Confluence).

In our experience, Software Release Engineers who are particularly good at their job share some additional skills that we would also like to find in our future colleagues: being analytical, reliable, service oriented and with a problem-solver attitude.