Build Engineer

Title: Build Engineer

Location: Issaquah, Washington (Consultant will have to relocate when client wants to hire the consultant as a direct employee of Costco Travel)

Position Type: 3-6 Months Contract to hire

Job Description: As a Build Engineer you work with Software Developers and DevOps Teams to ensure our products seamlessly move from development through rollout and into production. This requires scripting and coding with an eye toward scalability as we are pushing updates and iterating on all of our products.

We are looking for an individual interested in improving development experience and contribute to rolling out faster and better applications. Our vision is to continuously improve build and configuration management tools as well as best practices to meet needs of scaling applications as well as growing engineering teams.

Responsibilities

Solution focused with the ability to drive the improvement of our tools and processes for continuous integration, automated testing and deployment automation

Lead the way by staying up to date with tools and technologies to increase efficiency and reliability of CI/CD, as well as own their administration and maintenance

Manage release branches as well as maintain the build process to support continuous integration

Investigating and debug engineering/build failures and driving improvements

Designing and developing solutions to improve developer experience and code velocity to production

Required Skills

3+ years of experience in software engineering, release engineering and/or configuration management

3+ years' experience developing tools using Java, JavaScript, JSON, SQL, Ant, and/or scripting languages

BA/BS Computer Science or Engineering degree or equivalent work experience

Familiarity with software configuration management systems and/or source code version control systems such as Puppet, GIT, ADO, TFS GIT and TFS SVC

Experience in administration and usage of continuous integration and build tools and scripts such as Ant, Maven, Jenkins, and Gradle

Experience in SonarCube, Artifactory, Harbor, Kubernetes, and Docker

Experience with scripting languages Groovy, PowerShell, cmd and shell

Experience setting up, configuring, and maintaining Tomcat

Desired Skills

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Excellent organizational skills

Ability to work both independently and within a close team environment

Designing build and deployment architecture supporting the needs of complex web applications

Ability to translate team requirements to code implementation of tools

A passion for being part of a team willing to self-assess in order to continually find better ways to do things