Development Engineer 3 (Java Release Engineer) Job at Comcast (Chennai)

Job Description

The Release Manager is responsible for the efficient and reliable delivery of software releases across the organization's diverse application portfolio, which includes multiple teams and technical stacks. They play a crucial role at the intersection of development, operations, and business, ensuring that software builds are created, tested, and deployed effectively. The Release Manager's technical expertise, business acumen, and collaborative approach, including their ability to manage Scrum ceremonies, are crucial in delivering software releases efficiently and reliably across the organization's diverse application portfolio.

Job Responsibility

Release Planning and Strategy: Collaborate with stakeholders to create and maintain a comprehensive release schedule, identifying dependencies, risks, and mitigation strategies
Understand the business context and technical details of each application to predict and address potential release issues
Coordinate with DevOps, SRE, and Infrastructure teams to align release artifacts, deployment pipelines, and environment changes
Version and Dependency Management: Maintain a centralized repository of application versions and dependencies, enforcing consistent versioning conventions
Ensure the compatibility of external system integrations and manage the impact of dependency updates
Release Packaging and Deployment: Work with development teams to package release artifacts (code, configs, migrations) for seamless deployment
Orchestrate the deployment of releases across environments, leveraging automation to move towards continuous delivery
Collaborate with SRE and Infrastructure teams to execute database migrations and infrastructure changes
Release Testing and Quality Assurance: Ensure comprehensive testing suites are in place and executed as part of the release process
Validate the integrity of release artifacts, including database migrations and infrastructure changes
Streamline the release validation process, working towards eliminating the need for manual "Go/No-Go" meetings
Scrum Ceremonies Management: Manage and run all Scrum ceremonies (Refinement, Planning, Daily Standup, and Retrospective) for the teams involved in the software release process
Ensure effective collaboration, communication, and alignment among development, operations, and business stakeholders during these ceremonies
Continuous Improvement: Conduct post-release reviews to identify areas for process optimization and automation
Implement lessons learned and industry best practices to enhance the release management function
Monitor technological trends and collaborate with teams to incorporate new tools and techniques
Communication and Stakeholder Management: Serve as the central point of contact for all release-related inquiries and concerns
Proactively communicate release status, risks, and mitigation strategies to development, operations, and business stakeholders
Maintain release-related documentation and ensure its availability to all teams
Enforcement of Policies and Procedures: Approving source code changes—this operation is managed through configuration files scattered throughout the codebase
Specifying the actions to be performed during the release process
Creating a new release
Approving the initial integration proposal (which is a request to perform a build at a specific revision number in the source code repository) and subsequent cherry picks
Deploying a new release
Making changes to a project’s build configuration

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree
5-7 Years of relevant work experience

What we offer

Paid Time off
Physical Wellbeing benefits
Financial Wellbeing benefits
Emotional Wellbeing benefits
Life Events + Family Support benefits

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