Release Engineer Manager

Location:  Carmel, Indiana

MISO’s Software Engineering Team builds, sustains, and transforms software applications and services that directly enable the reliability of the bulk electric system and facilitate energy market participation.  Our applications can be seen in the control room on real-time displays and online by energy market participants through the market portal.   The Software Engineering Team’s vision is intelligent applications that empower the grid operations and energy markets of tomorrow.  The mission is to continuously deliver innovative solutions to drive the reliable and efficient delivery of low-cost energy.  

MISO’s Release Engineer Manager will manage two teams. For the Release Engineering Team, you will champion the reliable delivery of software through continuous improvement, and drive automation of the development pipeline to visualize key metrics such as code quality, test coverage, code review, application security scans, threat analysis results, build health, and more! For the Application Support Team, you will drive DevSecOps principles, champion the supportability of the applications, drive observability, improve incident response and deployment capabilities.

• Provide technical leadership on technical direction, decisions, and roadmaps
• Active knowledge of CI/CD landscape and direction
• Manage CI/CD tools and pipeline as a partner to development teams with a focus on developer experience
• Reducing overall application incidents, providing Tier-2 support, and maximizing Tier-1 ability to resolve issues
• Contribute to design discussions and drive technical decisions
• Promote a positive relationship with business partners and collaborate to plan, design, develop and test solutions, and be accountable for teamwork and quality
• Set and coach release engineers and application support analysts professionals’ career paths, listening to long-term goals and aligning them with opportunities as they arise
• Provide technical leadership to teammates through coaching and mentorship and use coaching practices to give honest feedback
• Write job descriptions, interview, and hire for vacant positions in an effective and timely manner

As MISO's Release Engineer Manager, you’ll need a solid understanding of modern software engineering and CI/CD methods and technologies. You’ll also need to demonstrate experience with some of the following areas: 

• DevOps/DevSecOps philosophy
• Use of private and public cloud and desire to use modern development techniques
• Agile Mindset/Transformation experience
• End-to-end, high reliability system design and implementation
• Application security, infrastructure security, and secure coding practices
• Software quality engineering automation
• CI/CD implementation, security, and maintenance
• Pipeline tooling administration (GitHub Enterprise Server, Nexus)
• Application support process definition and implementation
• Coaching and mentoring, and previous leadership experience
• At least 8 years in a technical role

Appropriate level will be determined based upon experience and knowledge.

MISO manages the electricity superhighway in the Central U.S. Through the use of groundbreaking research and sophisticated technology, our highly skilled employees ensure power flows reliably to 45 million Americans. Operating the electricity grid, running a robust energy market, planning for a bright future – it’s what our immensely hardworking and dedicated team does every day. 

MISO offers a hybrid work environment and a comprehensive benefits package available on your first day of employment.  #DiscoverMISO #MISOCareers

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