Release Technical Engineer Guidewire exp; USC or GC

Job Title:
Release Execution Core Technical Staff

Location:
Hartford CT - Onsite

Employment Type:
Contract

Comprehensive environment management across all test environments, ensuring operational readiness of its integrations and neighbor services through proactive monitoring using dashboards, logs, and alerting systems dedicated to the application stability to the testing community.

Operational readiness requires leading technical meetings with confidence in Strategic Platform architecture to coordinate deployment activities, drive process and automation enhancements and facilitate collaborative brainstorming sessions to solve complex technical challenges. The ideal candidate demonstrates critical thinking, natural curiosity, and unwavering accountability in problem-solving across all system components, while possessing business acumen proficiency to effectively communicate with leadership and business stakeholders as needed.

• Some production release management experience
• Some experience with Guidewire applications and integrations (plugins, APIs)
• Understanding QA technologies (ie: Teiko, Term, Playwright)
• Some experience in development and deployment tools (Bit Bucket, Team City, Git, Jenkins)
• Development experience enabling code comprehension and troubleshooting across various platform technologies

• Cross-functional Collaboration:
  
  Working with development, QA and business leaders
• Risk Management:
  
  Identifying and mitigating technical risks
• Stakeholder Communication:
  Translating technical concepts for business audiences

• Guidewire Cloud Platform:
  Understanding of Guidewire's SaaS architecture
• Integration Patterns: GW Integration Gateway, Bond Integration Interoperabilty Layer, Neighbor applications APIs
• Environment Maintenance:
  Automated deployments in Team City and related configuration
• Monitoring & Logging:
  Datadog, Watchtower, Grafana
• Performance Tuning:
  Application and infrastructure optimization
• Version Control:
  Git, branching strategies, code review processes