Release Engineer

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Release Engineer

Job Description

About Us

SUSE is an open-source pioneer and market leader with a fast-paced, exciting environment at the leading edge of Enterprise Linux, Data Center Management, and Cloud Solutions. Our Engineering & Innovation group is looking for a Release Engineer to join an international team of developers in the SUSE Multi-Linux Manager product team. SUSE Multi-Linux Manager is an open-source solution for managing software-defined infrastructures at scale, from bare-metal Linux systems to containers. You can check our upstream repository here: https://github.com/uyuni-project

Responsibilities

• Be a great person to work with: promote teamwork, communicate and coordinate in the team as well as across teams

• Release our software in a timely manner with the expected quality, handling complex build environments and product setups

• Understand the role of dependencies and life cycle implications in maintaining an open source project

• Communicate and coordinate with stakeholders like Development,  QA, Maintenance and Product Management teams and more

• Prepare and maintain a calendar of upcoming releases throughout the year

Required Skills

We look for passionate engineers who are motivated to make an impact for their team and our customers. We expect you to have:

• Proven track record experience in release engineering and automation

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins, TravisCI, GitHub Actions)

• Good knowledge of a scripting language (like bash or Python)

• Advanced knowledge of Git

• Familiarity with the RPM package format and specfiles

• Experience with building containers (Docker, Podman or Kubernetes)

• Comfortable with working on GNU/Linux based distributions

• Experience with a system configuration management (e.g. SaltStack, Ansible, Puppet)

• Solid English language skills to communicate successfully in a professional environment, and present ideas to different audiences

Nice to Have

Additionally we would also greatly appreciate:

• Experience in community management for an open source project

• Experience with automated packaging systems such as Open Build Service

• Experience managing or packaging for other GNU/Linux distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux)

• Advanced knowledge of public clouds (preferably AWS or Azure)

Our Offer

This is a permanent, full-time position with excellent benefits – including flexible hours and a commitment to work/life balance. You’ll be

joining a team of hard-working, focused, and creative people who are passionate about changing the world through the power of open

source technology and solutions.

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