Build and Release Engineer

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Apexon is a digital first technology services firm specializing in accelerating business transformation and delivering human centric digital experiences. We have been meeting customers wherever they are in the digital lifecycle and helping them outperform their competition through speed and innovation.

Apexon brings together distinct core competencies in AI, analytics, app development, cloud, commerce, CX, data, Dev Ops, IoT, mobile, quality engineering, and UX, along with deep expertise in BFSI, healthcare, and life sciences, helping businesses capitalize on the unlimited opportunities digital offers.

Our reputation is built on a comprehensive suite of engineering services, a dedication to solving clients’ toughest technology problems, and a commitment to continuous improvement. Backed by Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Everstone Capital, Apexon has a global presence across four continents.

Role:
Build and Release Engineer

Location:

Remote

Position: 1

Work Arrangement:
Remote

We are seeking a Build and Release Engineer with strong hands‑on experience in Azure Dev Ops, source control administration, YAML-based CI/CD pipelines, cross‑platform build agents, and artifact management. The ideal candidate will design and maintain secure, reusable, and reliable build and release pipelines, troubleshoot complex build failures, and support end‑to‑end software delivery across development, testing, staging, and production environments.

Mandatory Certification:
Microsoft Certified:
Dev Ops Engineer Expert, including successful completion of AZ-400:
Designing and Implementing Microsoft Dev Ops Solutions and the applicable prerequisite certification.

• Strong hands‑on experience with Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Artifacts, with working knowledge of Azure Boards.
• Ability to create and troubleshoot multi‑stage YAML pipelines from scratch.
• Experience administering Azure Repos permissions, branch policies, pull request rules, and merge strategies.
• Experience designing and consuming reusable YAML templates across multiple repositories.
• Hands‑on experience configuring and maintaining self‑hosted build agents on Windows and Linux, including agent pools, tool chains, permissions, and troubleshooting.
• Strong Git knowledge, including branching, merging, rebasing, cherry‑picking, tagging, conflict resolution, and history recovery.
• Proficiency in Power Shell and/or Bash for build and deployment automation.
• Practical experience with at least one major build ecosystem: .NET/MSBuild, npm/Node.js, Maven/Gradle, or Python packaging.
• Understanding of the end‑to‑end software build and release lifecycle, artifact versioning, environment promotion, deployment validation, and rollback.
• Ability to diagnose failures involving application code, pipeline configuration, dependencies, operating systems, and infrastructure.
• Mandatory:
  Microsoft Certified:
  Dev Ops Engineer Expert certification, including AZ-400 and the applicable prerequisite certification.

• Experience with Docker‑based builds and container registries such as Azure Container Registry.
• Experience with workload identity federation and managed identities for secure pipeline authentication.
• Hands‑on experience integrating Sonar Qube with Azure Pipelines and Azure Repos pull requests, including automated code analysis, pull request decoration, and quality gate enforcement through required status checks and branch policies.
• Experience supporting macOS build agents, where required.
• Experience maintaining classic Azure Dev Ops release pipelines and migrating them to multi‑stage YAML pipelines.