RELEASE AUTOMATION ENGINEER

Job Description:

Release Automation Engineer

Rakuten International oversees 7 businesses with over 4,000 employees globally. The brand is recognized for its leadership and innovation in e-commerce, digital content, advertising, entertainment and communications, bringing the joy of discovery and access to more than 1 billion members across the world. Our teams deliver on the company’s mission to delight merchants and customers through innovation, optimism, and teamwork.

Cartera Commerce, a Rakuten company who is the pioneer and leader in online cash back shopping and a subsidiary of the global Internet services company, is looking for experienced, talented and passionate individuals to join our growing team. Cartera Commerce’s loyalty solutions serves major airlines to top banks, we partner with elite companies who use loyalty programs to reward their customers. We help those customers earn more rewards by shopping with over 1,000 online retailers. If you want to join a dynamic team please apply. Cartera Commerce is based in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Cartera is seeking a Release Automation Engineer to build and maintain release pipelines.

Cartera partners with major airlines and banks to provide loyalty programs to reward their customers. Cartera’s engineering teams build high-volume client facing web applications, browser extensions and back-end data processing applications to exceed our client and members expectations.

The Release Automation Engineer bridges the gap between engineering and operations. This position requires versatility, flexibility, and attention to detail. It includes working with multiple application scrum teams, DevOps and QE teams to implement robust software delivery pipelines.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Release Automation Engineer will have the following responsibilities:

• Work closely with application teams to automate build and release processes towards continuous integration and delivery.

• Work closely with DevOps teams to implement pipelines needed for reliable release processes.

• Support and continuously improve the CI/CD toolset.

• Participate and support production deployments, as needed.

• Investigate and advocate for new technologies and best practices.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Minimum of BS/MS in Computer Science or related field.

• 3+ years of DevOps or release engineering experience.

• 3+ years of Linux/Unix experience.

• Experience in CI/CD techniques and tools (such as Jenkins, Github Actions, etc.).

• Experience with build systems (such as Maven etc.).

• Experience in systems automation programming (such as bash, python, etc.).

• Strong understanding of AWS cloud concepts and tools.

• Some experience with configuration management tools (such as Chef, etc.).

• Some understanding of containers and Kubernetes (such as docker, docker compose, Kubernetes tools).

• Ability to collaborate across teams communicating with co-workers, ask questions, and learn independently.

• Proactive and creative problem solver with the ability to problem-solve, troubleshoot and manage deadlines.

DESIRABLE SKILLS:

• Some experience as a developer in either PHP or Java.

• Experience supporting large Apache/PHP based websites.

• Exposure to working in an agile software lifecycle.

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Always improve, Always Advance - Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen
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