Build and Release Engineer,Remote Job Austin Texas USA,IT/Tech

Position: Build and Release Engineer, Remote, , US

Strong hands-on experience with Azure Repos, Azure Pipelines, and Azure Artifacts, and working knowledge of Azure Boards.
Demonstrated ability to create and troubleshoot multi-stage YAML pipelines from scratch.
Strong experience administering Azure Repos permissions, branch policies, pull request rules, and merge strategies.
Hands-on experience designing and consuming reusable YAML templates across multiple repositories.
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.
Clear understanding of the end-to-end software build and release lifecycle, artifact versioning, environment promotion, deployment validation, and rollback.
Proven ability to diagnose failures across application code, pipeline configuration, dependencies, operating systems, and infrastructure.

Required Qualifications:

Certification

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

Preferred

Skills:

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 enforcement of quality gates through required PR status checks and branch policies.
Experience supporting macOS build agents, if required by the application portfolio.
Experience maintaining classic Azure Dev Ops release pipelines and migrating them to multi-stage YAML pipelines.

Responsibilities:

Azure Repos Administration and Source Control
Administer Azure Repos repositories, repository permissions, branch security, and access controls.
Define and maintain branching strategies, repository standards, and pull request workflows appropriate to the team’s delivery model.
Configure and enforce branch policies, including:
- Minimum reviewer requirements and automatically included reviewers.
- Pull request build validation and required status checks.
- Comment resolution and linked work item requirements.
- Permitted merge strategies and restrictions on direct pushes.
- Controlled permissions to bypass policies.
Manage pull request completion practices, including squash merges, merge commits, and rebase-based workflows.
Resolve complex merge conflicts and troubleshoot Git history, tagging, and repository issues.
Establish commit, tagging, and versioning standards; manage large files and repository maintenance where needed. Azure Pipelines and Reusable Templates
Design and create YAML-based CI/CD pipelines from scratch and maintain existing pipelines.
Implement multi-stage pipelines covering build, test, package, publish, and deployment activities.
Design and maintain reusable stage, job, and step templates to standardize pipelines across repositories.
Use template parameters, variables, variable groups, conditions, dependencies, and output variables appropriately.
Manage shared template repositories, template versioning, and controlled rollout of template changes.
Configure CI triggers, branch and path filters, scheduled runs, pipeline-resource triggers, and Azure Repos PR build validation policies.
Configure and securely manage pipeline access to repositories, service connections, variable groups, and other protected resources. Cross-Platform Build Agents
Configure and administer Microsoft-hosted and self-hosted build agents and agent pools.
Install, register, configure, and maintain self-hosted agents on Windows and Linux; support macOS where required.