Job Description
Job Description
Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If you can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT apply.
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Title: Release Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Location: Peoria, IL OR Chicago, IL
Workplace type: 100% onsite (M-F, 40 hour work week) + may need additional flexible hours
Type: Contract
Pay: $68-70.77 MAX/hour on w2
IV type: 2-3 rounds
Length: 12 months- possibility to extend
Screenings: no tech, full panel drug and background once hired
+optional benefits and 401K
Education & Experience Required:
• Bachelor's Degree with 10+ years experience OR Master degree with 8+ years experience
• 8+ years of IT release or delivery management.
• 6-7+ experience with CICD pipelines, GIT and DevOps tools and technologies
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills Top candidates will also have:
• Experience in/with the following: o Azure DevOps o Working within an Agile framework (ideally Scrum) with multiple other teams as a Scrum Master or Program Manager or Project Co-Ordinator
• Strong understanding and/or experience in some of the following, o AWS Cloud, automated CICD and BDD with Cucumber.
• Ability to work under pressure and within time constraints
• Passion for technology and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science
- High Communication skills
Disqualifiers/Red Flags/Overqualifications:
- Consistent job hopping/ choppy tenure
- If candidate is not local but open to relocation on their dime and being there in office day 1, please make that clear on the resume.
- Candidates need to be flexible on working hours. If they can ONLY work a 8-5 shift, please DO NOT submit them.
- If the candidate does not have experience listed where thy have handled multiple projects , DO NOT submit them.
- WD will look at candidates who are local over those who are open to relocating on their own dime.
Position’s Contributions to Work Group:
- client Digital has an exciting opportunity for a talented and motivated Release Engineer.
- The primary purpose of the role is to monitor and co-ordinate the build and release cycle of modern cloud-based customer facing client Foresight web application by collaborating with Scrum Teams, QA, Product and Business stakeholders.
- You will be part of a fast-moving global team to build a best-in-class product for client dealers worldwide to improve operational efficiency and reduce TCO
Typical task breakdown:
- As a Release Engineer/Co-Ordinator, you will be responsible for monitoring CI/CD pipelines for smooth and successful builds and develop the UAT and production release plans.
- You will also be coordinating with important stakeholders such as QA, Infrastructure, Product and Business managers to resolve build problems, determine the release feature set and gathering of release documentation.
- Successful candidate also will perform DevOps role as secondary role. As a DevOps role successful candidate will demonstrate competency with the following AWS services: ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, Glacier, RDS, VPC, Route53, ELB, IAM, CloudFront, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, SQS, SES, Lambda.
- Proficient in Python programming language and tech stacks
Interaction with team:
- Work closely with Scrum Masters and engineering team.
- Conducting the scrum on scrum calls and manage the release cadence and do releases.
Work environment:
- Position is required to be remote hybrid in Chicago/Peoria - onsite about one day a week. Onsite time may increase.
\nCompany Description
At Swoon, we believe the future is built by great teams working on the technologies that keep the world running. That’s why we focus on more than just filling roles. We help companies build the right teams at the right time – teams that move big ideas forward.
Across the US and Canada, leading organizations trust us to leverage our expertise to help them build, secure, and scale the technologies that are shaping tomorrow. The result isn’t just successful hires. It’s a hiring journey that’s as rewarding as the outcome: teams that thrive, cultures that grow stronger, and results that exceed expectations.
Because at the end of the day, we exist to help companies and people achieve their boldest ambitions.
Company Description
At Swoon, we believe the future is built by great teams working on the technologies that keep the world running. That’s why we focus on more than just filling roles. We help companies build the right teams at the right time – teams that move big ideas forward.\r\n\r\nAcross the US and Canada, leading organizations trust us to leverage our expertise to help them build, secure, and scale the technologies that are shaping tomorrow. The result isn’t just successful hires. It’s a hiring journey that’s as rewarding as the outcome: teams that thrive, cultures that grow stronger, and results that exceed expectations.\r\n\r\nBecause at the end of the day, we exist to help companies and people achieve their boldest ambitions.