Senior/Regular Build and Deployment Engineer

This role encompasses the development, testing, maintenance and support of tool chain and scripts to fully automate the application lifecycle version control, build, package, deploy & monitor process.

• Automate the creation of Subversion branches, working copies, updates, commits, merges & tags.
• Automate the building of components in a Continuous Integration environment using Team City.
• Integrate the use of xUnit tests into the automated Continuous Integration build.
• Integrate the use of test Code Coverage tools into the automated Continuous Integration build.
• Integrate the use of test Static Analysis tools into the automated Continuous Integration build.
• Automate the Packaging\Integration of components into Systems.
• Automate the version stamping, checksum creation and certification of the builds.
• Automate the version management & storage of the deployable components & Systems in Artifactory.
• Automate the Deployment & calling\execution of tests of the Systems using Nolio.
• Automate the tracking, checking & reporting of the status of Systems & Environments using Jira.

Essential Skills

• Scripting

− Excellent scripting ability, especially in the area of integrating build & deployment tools &

technologies.

− Strong software scripting design skills.

− UNIX shell scripting.

• Building: Building Java components. At least one of the following: Maven, Ant, Nant,
• Packaging: Java packaging, RPM
• Deploying: Deploying Java packages into WebLogic Application Server.

'Nice to have' Skills

• Scripting: Rake, Powershell, Perl, Python
• Building:

− Buildr,

− Gradle

− Building .Net components: Psake, MSBuild

− Building C++ components on UNIX: Scons, Make

• Tools: Subversion, Team City, Jira, Artifactory, Nolio

Development, testing, maintenance and support of tool chain and scripts to fully automate the

application lifecycle.