Software Release Engineer

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Software Release Engineer

Join a dedicated team of expert software engineering professionals at Siemens Healthineers POC as a Software Release Engineer. Aid in the continuous and automated building, testing, and releasing of high-quality products to customers. This role reports to the Senior Software Engineering Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with product owners, developers, V&V teams, and other stakeholders to define release timelines, goals, and criteria, ensuring readiness for release.
• Utilize automation tools, CI/CD pipelines, and best practices to streamline configuration management, software build, package, release and deployment processes.  
• Enhances the speed and efficiency of product releases while ensuring quality.
• Modernize and oversee the Software Automation Lab to establish and maintain highly capable and reliable testing environments, fostering innovation in new verification and validation technologies.
• Work alongside other skilled engineers to incorporate robotic technology-assisted medical device software verification and validation.
• Develop automated Acceptance tests to ensure software functions meet requirements and verify that critical builds are ready for additional verification stages.
• Automate the generation of release notes, post-release reports, and maintain comprehensive release documentation for future reference.
• Optimize build, test and DevOps infrastructure servers, services and other resources in terms of scalability, efficiency, performance, and cost; identify and address bottlenecks.
• Manage Azure DevOps server, Git, and TFVC-based source control systems.
• Applies manual and automated techniques to ensure adherence to regulated medical device software development processes. Reports non-conformances to management.

Requirements:

• A 4-year degree in Computer Science or related fields, with one to two years of software engineering experience being advantageous.
• Comprehensive understanding of the software development lifecycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Experience in managing and automating build, release, and deployment pipelines.
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Familiarity with application monitoring, logging, and debugging tools.
• Strong knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.
• Understanding of source code management, compilers, build configuration languages, automated build tools, package managers, and installers is a plus.
• Excellent problem-solving abilities and meticulous attention to detail.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across various teams.

Plus:

• Software DevOps and Release Engineer experience in the Medical Device Software Development field.
• Understanding Agile methodology and experience with working on an Agile team.
• Experienced with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery technologies such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps.
• Experienced with virtual machine, container and orchestration technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Industrial experience with Cloud technologies such as Azure or AWS.

Who we are: We are a team of more than 72,000 highly dedicated Healthineers in more than 70 countries. As a leader in medical technology, we constantly push the boundaries to create better outcomes and experiences for patients, no matter where they live or what health issues they are facing. Our portfolio is crucial for clinical decision-making and treatment pathways.

How we work: When you join Siemens Healthineers, you become one in a global team of scientists, clinicians, developers, researchers, professionals, and skilled specialists, who believe in each individual’s potential to contribute with diverse ideas. We are from different backgrounds, cultures, religions, political and/or sexual orientations, and work together, to fight the world’s most threatening diseases and enable access to care, united by one purpose: to pioneer breakthroughs in healthcare. For everyone. Everywhere. Sustainably.

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