Release Engineer

Avaloq Group; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a Software Release Engineer to manage software releases for all products. Responsibilities include planning releases, ensuring successful delivery, and educating users on deployment best practices. Candidates should have experience in Release Management within the Banking sector and a Bachelor's degree in a related field. The role supports hybrid working, promoting work-life balance and embracing diversity.

Benefits

Hybrid working

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive company culture

Qualifications

• Proven track record working in Release Management or Configuration Management.
• Hands‑on experience with relevant technologies.
• Excellent communication skills for stakeholder management.

Responsibilities

• Plan and rollout various products in controlled environments.
• Accountability for delivery of releases into Live environments.
• Document and educate users on release and deployment best practices.

Skills

Release Management

Configuration Management

Unix

Oracle

SQL

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Git/GitHub

Communication Skills

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject

Tools

Shell scripting

OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

Job Description

This is an exciting opportunity to join our global Release Management team, working regionally as a Software Release Engineer. You will take care of software releases for all Avaloq products in collaboration with a variety of teams from Project Management and Test to Infrastructure and Software Development. You will be responsible for our UK customers and support them during various SDLC phases and go-live.

Responsibilities

• Planning and rollout of various Avaloq products in the controlled environments.
• End-to-end accountability for the successful delivery of releases into the Live environments.
• Creating and managing implementation plans, release meetings, and production cutover.
• Leading release scope validation with project managers and delivery managers and ensuring technical validation of all releases are completed and reported for the Go Live.
• Delivering software packaging, deployment, and log analysis of Avaloq products.
• Documenting and educating the users on release, configuration, DevOps, and deployment management best practices.

Qualifications

• Proven track record working in Release Management, Configuration Management in a junior or mid-level position in the Banking / Financial Services Industry
• Hands‑on experience with technologies such as Unix, Oracle, SQL, Jenkins, Artifactory, Bitbucket, Git/GitHub or other source code management tools
• Excellent communication skills to navigate conflict resolution, stakeholder management and collaborating with multi-cultural matrix teams.
• Well‑versed in CI/CD process
• Ability to work ad‑hoc on weekends or out of hours depending on priorities
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related subject

Bonus

• Experience with Shell scripting, OpenShift, Kubernetes, Docker, Container Platform
• Agile / ITIL certifications or AWS / OCI or any cloud certifications
• Awareness of Avaloq Banking System concepts
• Knowledge about Avaloq Front Platform, Mobile Application releases
• Avaloq ICE Release Stream creation, cutover

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices.

In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self.

We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way.

Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.