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Job title

Software Configuration Management Engineer - Contract

Company Digital Careers, Inc.
Wage between $0.00 - $0.00 Hourly
Location United States, California, Thousand Oaks
Employment type 6-9 Month Contract
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 3 - 4 Years of Practical Experience
Travel None
Published on 2/2/2005
Description
Ever wondered whom the worldâ??s leading network equipment manufacturers look to accelerate their time to market for next generation network systems? The answer is Our Client. Every significant industry test in the last six years has used our clientâ??s Communications Test systems as the benchmark. Every industry association looks to them for accurate test methodologies.

This Division provides instruments and systems that measure and analyze the performance of network equipment, particularly the devices that route voice and data messages to their destination. Our products are mainly used in the research and development laboratories of network equipment manufacturers but are also used by independent evaluation bodies, network operators and network service providers to assess the capabilities of such equipment.

DUTIES:
Lead the implementation/improvement of software development practices, release management methodologies, online distribution, and software deployment strategies using Perforce and other CM, build, release and deployment management tools such as VSS, InstallShield, and Privilege Builder. Assess the need for, create and implement scripts to automate the build, packaging and internal or external deployment of software products as well as the automation of time consuming, error prone tasks associated with the build, release and deployment cycles.

Serve as build master and actively participate in the improvement of software configuration and change management processes to guarantee build accuracy, version control of software artifacts, and re-creation of build environments and software releases.
This position entails troubleshooting and resolving build issues; creating and maintaining build scripts and processes for full and incremental daily builds as well as production level software releases.

Excellent teamwork skills are also required. It will also be responsible for training new developers and mentoring others in the SCM team in the use, administration and further deployment of SCM tools and processes. This software configuration management position requires the administration of various build machines on multiple platforms. Other duties include optimization of hardware resources used by SCM and automation of tool administration tasks.df-tc

Experience/Skills
QUALIFICATIONS:
â?¢ A proven record of defining, implementing and maintaining SCM best practices.
â?¢ A strong background in SCM processes including version, build and issue management as well as build and release management covering internal and customer deployment strategies.
â?¢ A proven record of success delivering multiple individual products in an aggressive, fast-paced engineering organization.
â?¢ Thorough understanding of the use and implementation of development workspace management strategies across multiple sites to support release engineering for large development efforts/teams
â?¢ Knowledgeable and experienced in software development, SCM practices, software build technologies, and Release Management methodologies.

TOOLS/TECHNICAL
â?¢ Familiar with software development tools for Windows 98/NT/2K/XP, Red Hat Linux and Solaris operating environments. Should be familiar with the Java SDK, GNU tool chain and the Windows Visual Studio environments.
â?¢ Familiar with standard build tools including ANT and Make.
â?¢ Familiar with the use, maintenance and deployment across multiple platforms of tools such as the InstallShield ZeroG InstallAnywhere product lines.
â?¢ Familiar with the use and maintenance of Product Defect Tracking Systems. Our chosen system is Siebel Quality Module, however a candidate familiar with Rational ClearQuest, BugZilla or comparable systems should be able to apply that knowledge to Siebel.
â?¢ Familiar with the use and maintenance of Source Code Management Systems. Our chosen systems include Perforce and Visual Source Safe; however a candidate familiar with Rational ClearCase, PVCS or comparable systems should be able to apply that knowledge to our systems.
â?¢ Solid working knowledge of Unix and Linux platforms
â?¢ Experienced with scripting languages (PERL, Ruby, VBScript, JavaScript)

PERSONAL:
â?¢ Strong organizational skills, able to effectively balance the needs of multiple customers and projects.
â?¢ Able to maintain a high quality and efficiency focus under tight deadline pressures.
â?¢ Strong communication skills to be able to communicate to all levels of engineering (management and development/test).
â?¢ Able to clearly articulate and defend process and tool selections to a wide audience.


EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
â?¢ BS in CS, EE, Math, or equivalent.
â?¢ Understanding of network protocols.
â?¢ Working knowledge of C/C++ and/or Java programming along with various compilers (MSVC, CBuilder, GCC, etc.), librari
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