Release Engineer

Company: Veritude, a Fidelity Investments companyLocation: Brooklyn, ok 11201Status: Full Time, EmployeeJob Category: IT/Software DevelopmentCareer Level: Experienced (Non-Manager) Contact InformationCompany: Veritude, a Fidelity Investments company At Veritude, it's our goal to help you find opportunities that match your goals and skills. Our staffing approach is unique: by combining a deep, personal knowledge of our client companies and your career objectives, we ensure consistent "best matches" of your talents to the position and culture of the client's organization. The benefit to you? Increased job satisfaction and greater opportunity for success. Job Description Release Engineer We're looking for a Release Engineer on behalf of our client, Wireless Generation.Wireless Generation pioneered the adaptation of mobile technologies, including handheld computers and digital pens, for use in managing and improving teaching and learning in grades pre-K-12. The company’s commitment to listening to educators and gaining a deep understanding of their challenges has lead to the development of offerings that optimally combine mobile tools, Internet technology, and in-person services to help improve student achievement in reading and math. Wireless Generation’s mCLASS® products and services streamline collection of data about student learning needs and school operations, facilitate data analysis and interpretation, and build educators’ capacity to implement data-driven instructional programs that deliver better outcomes for children. State and district school systems across the country and overseas now rely upon these offerings to achieve and sustain growth in their classrooms. More information is available on the Web at www.wirelessgeneration.com. Summary The Release Engineering team ensures that our services and programs are released in an orderly manner from development to production. The team establishes procedures and develops tools in order to achieve repeatable and automated builds and releases with the least amount of human intervention possible. Responsibilities Design, document and code improvements to the scalable, automated integration/build/test and release process. Manage release branches. Build and sanity test release binaries. Push new releases to production. Maintain the build process. Requirements BS or equivalent experience in Computer Science or other technical field. 2+ years experience in software engineering, release engineering, and/or configuration management. Strong familiarity with software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems (CVS, SVN preferred, git, bzr or darcs a plus) Extensive knowledge of Unix/Linux. Familiarity with Windows development is a plus. Skill with one or more scripting languages. Python experience highly desired. Experience with build management tools (make, ant). Experience building Java applications.  Contact: Steve.Scott@veritude.com    Veritude is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and supports a diversified environment.