IT Software Engineer (Release Manager) | Chicago/Peoria, IL |

Company Description StarTekk’s adoption of Digital Transformation is to accelerate organizational growth, increase efficiencies and help Star Workforce achieve focused business goals. The Employee will help our organization to identify and bridge the gap that exists in the business by analyzing the data, scale and support digital transformation initiatives. Job Description Our client is seeking an experienced Release Engineer/Release Manager to support the build and release lifecycle of a modern cloud-based customer-facing application. This role will collaborate with Scrum Teams, QA, Product Owners, Infrastructure teams, and Business stakeholders to deliver high-quality releases for global users. The ideal candidate will have strong experience managing enterprise releases, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, AWS cloud technologies, and Agile delivery environments. Key Responsibilities Manage and coordinate end-to-end release cycles across development, QA, UAT, and production environments. Monitor CI/CD pipelines to ensure successful builds and deployments. Create and manage UAT and production release plans. Coordinate release readiness activities with QA, Infrastructure, Product, and Business teams. Facilitate Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and manage release cadence. Troubleshoot build and deployment issues. Support DevOps activities and cloud infrastructure operations. Improve deployment processes, automation, release quality, and delivery timelines. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field preferred. 10+ years of experience with Bachelor’s degree. 8+ years of experience with Master’s degree. Preferred Qualifications Experience working with multiple Scrum teams. Experience as Release Manager, Scrum Master, Program Manager, or Project Coordinator. Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously. Strong presentation and communication skills. Ability to support flexible working hours based on release schedules. Additional Information 8+ years of IT Release Management / Delivery Management experience. 6+ years of experience with CI/CD pipelines, Git, and DevOps tools. Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies. Experience with Azure DevOps. Hands-on AWS experience including: ECS EC2 EBS S3 Glacier RDS VPC Route53 ELB IAM CloudFront CloudFormation CloudWatch SQS SES Lambda Strong Python programming experience. Experience with automated CI/CD and BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber. Excellent communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.