Build Release Engineer

 

Build Release Engineer

Department: Release Engineering

Location: Manchester, NH

 

Company Overview

Health Dialog is a leading provider of care management services and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BUPA, a global provider of healthcare services. Health Dialog helps physician groups, health plans, government agencies, and self-insured employers improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. The firm's offerings include disease management, analytic services, telephonic and online Health Coaching, health and wellness initiatives, and other care management support for individuals, payors, and physicians. Health Dialog helps individuals become more actively engaged in the management of their health and healthcare and have more effective relationships with their physicians. For more information about Health Dialog, please visit their website www.healthdialog.com.

 

Job Description

 Health Dialog Application Services Team is looking for a highly motivated and experienced build, configuration management, and release engineer to help drive our build/release process to the next level. This position will manage builds of releases into the various environments; including creating appropriate tags and branches within our Source Code Management System, creating and managing automated deployment processes, coordinating release management, creating the Release Plan, and providing deployment and troubleshooting support. Candidate should demonstrate exceptional multi-tasking skills, ability to generate new, performance improvement ideas, and superb task execution skills and drive to completion all initiated projects. After joining Health Dialog, engineer will be expected to implement branching and merging strategies for major, minor, maintenance and patch releases, continuously improve Health Dialog build system and spearhead streamlined build and test integration.

 

Specific job duties include:

 

Essential Job Functions & Skills

 

Maintain, manage, enhance and own:

· Source Code Management Tools – Health Dialog is using Sourcegear Vault for Source Code Control.

· Strong technical debugging skills (IIS, SQL Server, Web Server etc.) for web-based and deployed applications

· Excellent verbal and written communication skills

· Able to work with all levels of staff including senior management

· Ability to develop and foster productive and collaborative relationships with software testers, engineers and operations staff

· Proven track record of success and excellence in role as a Release Engineer with strong System Engineering skills

· Provide ongoing build support: Continuously monitor build status, and provide quick resolution to build issues.

· Develop and maintain an efficient and flexible automated deployment framework that ensures repeatable deployment of releases into multiple environments.

· Create builds within the automated deployment framework allowing deployments to multiple environments.

· Ensure that builds are properly documented and identify changes since last build through Release Notes.

· Coordinate builds of a release with Quality Assurance and Operations.

· Manage list of releases including release contents and dates, coordinating this list with the Change Control Board and the Program Management Office.

· Assist in identifying and resolving conflicts between product releases.

· Evaluate changes to uncover patterns in changes.  This will allow discovery of missing system requirements, known Errors and potential operational procedures.



Job Qualifications

 7+  years experience as a build/release/configuration management engineer. Excellent problem solving, analytical skills and technical troubleshooting skillsExperience releasing concurrent product linesExperience developing msi scripts and automating build/release process



  Technology Skills

 Experience using VmwareExpert in Source Code Management Tools (Examples: Sourcegear Vault, CVS, PVCS, Rational ClearCase, Microsoft Source Safe) Expert in Build Management Tools (Examples: ANT scripts, MAKE utility) Expert in Source Code Unit Test and Integration Test Tools (Examples: JUnit, JTest.) Proficient in Operating Infrastructure (Examples: Microsoft Windows 2000/2003, Microsoft Virtual Severs, Red Hat Linux, Microsoft Internet Information Server, Apache web server) Basic administrative knowledge of one or more major database, including Oracle, MS SQL ServerBasic networking skills, including DHCP setup, router and switch exposure.

 Experience in the following areas will be very helpful and will be considered a plus

 Basic programming skills or experienced, C# .NET



 Personal Skills

 Strong oral and written communication skills Proven research and documentation skills.Ability to work within cross-functional team.Superb multi-tasking capabilitiesAbility to work effectively in fast-paced start-up environment and learn new things quickly



Education Level

 BSCS degree helpful or equivalent experience

Please send cover letter and resume to:

 

Derrick Chandler, Recruiter: ITCareers@healthdialog.com

 

Health Dialog is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not accept unsolicited resumes from third party search firms.