Senior Build Engineer; position in Sunnyvale, CA

We are a technology solutions company helping organizations accelerate business growth.
Partnering with Fortune 500 companies, we have successfully delivered talent on demand and
project solutions for over two decades now.

Title:
Senior Build Engineer

Location:
Plantation, FL 33322 & Sunnyvale, CA

Duration: 6-18+ Months to begin with (Possible extension)

Responsibilities:

• This is a hands-on lead software development and systems operations role supporting build and release automation services. In this position, you will be part of a team building, evaluating, and deploying software stack.
• You will help choose and deploy commercial and open-source tools and technologies to build and support a professional software engineering environment, with an emphasis on operational self-service and continuous integration. You will maintain and manage source code repositories for internal projects, third party resources, and forks of various open-source and proprietary projects.
• Engineer systems and tools to support the build, integration, and verification of complex software systems spanning multiple hardware platforms, embedded devices, mobile platforms, and cloud-based services.
• Automate the compilation, continuous integration, testing, packaging, and distribution of multiple software components.
• Work closely with Build, Integration, Test and Software engineers to develop tools for automation, and continuously improve the release process and automation environment.
• Develop tools and scripts to automate the testing of software and hardware systems.
• Assist developers with build issues, including maintaining Make files and cmake lists, resolving compilation errors, unit test failures, and similar issues.
• Encourage and enforce best practices to enable rapid new feature development while maintaining multiple functioning software products.
• Assist SDK and platform teams bringing up new components; encourage best practices and consistent CI across the organization.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years’ experience in build engineering and release automation.
• Experience managing and building Android/AOSP projects.
• Experience managing and building Linux based distributions and packaging.
• Experience with OSX and Windows CI systems is a plus.
• Experience with Jenkins files / groovy.
• Experience with make and cmake.
• Experience with Linux, shell-scripting, Git and Gerrit, Jenkins.
• Expertise with one or more programming languages, such as C, C++, C#, Ruby, Python.
• Experience with software development and testing, and familiarity with Test-Driven and Behavior-Driven Development (TDD/BDD), Continuous Integration, and Continuous Deployment.
• Familiar with virtual machines such as VMWare and Virtual Box, and containers such as Docker and LXC.
• Familiar with performing and automating systems administration tasks using tools such as Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Fabric.
• Excel in a fast-paced, agile environment supporting multiple projects using a wide variety of technologies.
• Strong communication skills and the desire to teach and mentor other engineers with varying domains of expertise.

Education:

• BA/BS, MS preferred, in Computer Science or related field is preferred, but considerable weight will be given to experience and prior accomplishments.

Additional Information:

• All your information will be kept confidential according to Equal Employment Opportunities guidelines.

This client is very fast-moving and it is our direct one.