Release Manager (AWS/Cloud) - Contract/CTH

Responsibilities
Own the Release Management lifecycle including scheduling, coordinating and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications and portfolios
Building the IT Release Calendar working closely with the IT release managers from different portfolios across IT and centralizing view of all releases.
Leads the effort of defining the IT strategic direction for release management tools for IT
Assist in managing projects and interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence and the integrity of releases
Define source control strategies according to business needs of application portfolio
Analyzing existing release process to identify opportunities for improvement using automation and new technologies
Creating automated processes for releasing and deploying software
Develop and implement continuous integration and deployment pipelines using Jenkins and other CI tools
Perform software deployments as needed
Construct and build tools for checking system performance
Collaborate with other developers, testers, and system engineers to ensure quality product enhancements

Experience
5+ years overall, 7 years preferred
3+ years as Release Engineer/Release Manager
1+ years working on automated build and deploy pipelines
Experience with large scale AWS deployments
Technical Expertise
Exposure to multiple industry leading local and distributed configuration management systems
Jenkins, Hudson, Rundeck
Working knowledge of Puppet/Chef
Amazon Web Services
MySQL
Ant, Maven, Rake
Ruby, Perl, Shell scripting
Git/GitHub, Subversion, CVS
Familiarity with Linux/Windows Administration