Lead Product Software Engineer

Job Description

Essential duties & responsibilities of the Lead Product Software EngineerLevel 1:

• General monitoring, build and deployment of software releases; day-to-day system administration, ad-hoc bug fixing and telemetry analysis
  • Troubleshooting build, deployment, and system issues.
  • Manage Build Agents (create, update, maintain).
  • Managing the configuration of Azure, Windows build infrastructure.
  • Utilize Team Foundation Server (manage access rights, basic connection issues).
  • Utilize Azure DevOps (setup, access).
  • Utilize Azure DevOps, TeamCity, Octopus Deploy or equivalent tool for continuous Build and Deployment.
  • Experience in linking GitHub/Azure DevOps for source control.
  • Perform daily smoke test analysis / ticketing.
  • Maintain/utilise smoke test automation scripts.
  • Improving the reliability and performance of test and build processes.
  • Utilize PowerShell in day to day activities.
  • Support and understand our CI/CD process.
• Source control
  • Check in/out code, update code versions.
  • Understand branching strategy, especially trunk-based development.
  • Familiar with GitHub download/update/deploy GitHub templates.
• VSTS
  • Integration with Visual Studio.
  • Retrieving/uploading/merging code.
  • Managing Visual Studio projects.
• Azure DevOps
  • Backlog and sprint management.
  • Manage team boards.
  • Build and run queries.
  • Update estimates and plans.
• Continuous Integration/Delivery/Deployment
  • Octopus Deploy.
    • Build and create releases for deployment.
    • Create and manage projects.
    • Create and manage tenants.
    • Octopus variable configuration management and control.
    • Debugging of deployments.
    • Ability to automate and orchestrate deployments.
  • TeamCity
    • Create and manage builds.
    • Build automation.
    • Automatic detection of tool versions, testing frameworks support, code coverage, Static code analysis.
  • Azure Pipelines
    • Create and manage Azure pipelines to set up a stable and repeatable CI/CD process.
    • Active debugging during release cycle.
  • Infrastructure Automation
    • Understand Azure infrastructure as code.
    • Ability to use Azure Resource Manager (ARM).
    • Download, modify, upload and execute Azure templates from PowerShell or CLI command line tools.
• Container Concepts
  • Understand Docker containers.
  • Build, deploy, monitor and alert on Docker containers.
  • Debugging during Docker container life cycle.
• Scripting
  • PowerShell and /or CLI.
  • Create, manage and version Azure automation scripts.
  • Familiarity with many common Azure PowerShell or CLI commands.
  • Use of PowerShell to deploy Azure ARM templates.
• Service Fabric
  • Understand Service Fabric cluster creation, management, tear-down.
  • Ability to scale up/down, in/out Azure clusters.
  • Scripting of Service Fabric clusters using ARM templates.
  • Determine when a cluster is unhealthy and ability to act upon that.
  • Know your way around Service Fabric explorer.
  • How to manage services, create, monitor, restart.
  • Service orchestration and cluster balancing.
• Windows Admin
  • Windows Server 2016 Data Centre.
  • Windows Nano Server.
  • Use of Windows Admin Centre to manage VMs, services etc.
  • VM patching and Microsoft updates.
  • RDP.
  • Multi-hop logins.
  • Use of stepping stones in security.
• Monitoring and Alerting (AppInsights and Datadog are the tools used)
  • Develop monitoring and status dashboards in AppInsights.
  • Implement health checks and use the ping facility in Azure Availability tests to exercise the health checks.
  • Implement tools to track system usage, feature usage, and flow.
  • Use of alerts to establish root-cause-analysis of failures.
  • Use of telemetry to establish root-cause-analysis.
  • Perform ongoing tuning to reduce meaningless or non-actionable alerts.
• Code Quality
  • Use of SonarCube for static code analysis.

Level 2:(All tasks Level 1, 2)

• Manage VSTS (setup, migrations, resolving issues).
• Manage Azure DevOps (migrations, configuration problems).
• Develop, maintain, and improve internal infrastructure systems and tools (GitHub, Azure DevOps, etc.).
• Maintain and improve our build and continuous integration systems to help with the efficiency of our build, development, and release process.
• Develop Azure deployment scripts utilizing PowerShell.
• Upkeep of build tools and dependencies.
• Automating/maintenance of the smoke test process.
• Designing and maintaining automated release channels.
• Develop build scripts.
• Utilize day to day release tools.
• Utilize our CI/CD process throughout the workflow.

Level 3:(All tasks Level 1, 2, 3)

• Drive and manage the build and release process.
• Analyze, architect, and develop new deployments, mechanisms and procedures for the cloud, virtual hardware, and high-availability enterprise environments.
• Own the day-to-day Build activities.
• Support co-workers & development team with demos & training of upcoming changes.
• Manage and develop our CI/CD process.

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Keyskills :
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