Senior Release Engineer

Appian provides a leading low-code software development platform that enables organizations to rapidly develop powerful and unique applications. The applications created on Appian’s platform help companies drive digital transformation and competitive differentiation.

As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for the fully automated build/test/deploy system that Appian uses to manage its software development. You will ensure that our world-class infrastructure is always available, responsive, and capable of meeting the diverse needs of a dynamic and high-powered development team. You will work directly with the development team to assess and prioritize the current and upcoming needs of the organization, design/build/deploy new automation for all aspects of our development lifecycle, and maintain, troubleshoot and fix issues that impede our team’s progress.

• Configuring and enhancing the tools we use to get things done (JIRA Agile, Jenkins, GitHub)
• Evaluating cutting edge technologies like Docker, Vagrant, Memcache, Zookeeper and designing and building new infrastructure features to increase product quality, decrease cycle time, and improve developer efficiency
• Becoming a master of our current product infrastructure
• Keeping automated infrastructure up-to-date as dependent technologies evolve and scale (JEE application servers, JDK, RDBMS)
• Automating every aspect of our development lifecycle and help us in our mission to achieve continuous delivery
• Creating new tools to increase departmental visibility into product quality, performance and releasability

• Passionate about DevOps, Release Engineering and trends including CI/CD
• Bachelors in Computer Science or Engineering
• Proficiency working in AWS and both a Windows and Linux environment
• Experience designing and building software or software systems in an enterprise software or Saas/Paas environment
• Strong working knowledge of prevalent build and automation languages (Gradle, Maven, Ant, Groovy)
• A strong knack for quickly learning complex technical concepts & strong oral, written, and presentation skills
• Mastery of Chef/Puppet (or similar tool)
• Fluency in at least one object-oriented programming language and one scripting language, preferably Java