Release Engineer

As part of the Deployment Engineering team, you will be responsible for defining and improving the software delivery process and platform for Dayforce.

Location: Work is what you do, not where you go. For this role we can hire anywhere in Mauritius.

About the opportunity

As part of the Deployment Engineering team, you will be responsible for defining and improving the software delivery process and platform for Dayforce, a comprehensive, modern cloud human capital management (HCM) software for managing the entire employee lifecycle, and other Dayforce-related products.

The Deployment Engineering team at Dayforce strives to drive improvement and build the common deployment platform across the entire company by enabling development teams to work more efficiently and safely, deliver value to customers faster, and continuously learn and improve. We aim to bridge the gap between Development and Operations by incorporating the DevOps philosophy and practices in our daily work and teaching others by example. We use our curiosity and passion for improvement to keep abreast of new techniques and technologies that will help us refine how we deliver high-quality software to our users.

If you feel as passionate about this mission as we do, then apply to join us.

What you’ll get to do

• Work within a Scrum team to develop deployment pipelines and templates using YAML
• Monitor and analyze deployment pipelines to identify areas for improvement
• Maintain deployment pipelines to deploy into all environments from test to production
• Participate in a scheduled weekend and after-hours rotation to monitor deployment pipelines and respond to incidents as needed
• Establish standards and practices to support development teams in building robust, maintainable deployment pipelines
• Develop turn-key solutions and platforms to create full-featured deployment pipelines for development teams
• Drive investigation and adoption of new and emerging software delivery practices, architectures, and tools
• Contribute and support to company-wide projects and initiatives as needed
• Collaborate with Architecture, Operations and Support teams to find opportunities for improvement in the common development platform

Skills and experience we value

• Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Strong analytical, diagnostic, and problem-solving skills
• University degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Experience automating deployment pipelines for large applications
• Experience with Azure and cloud-native architecture
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and application delivery processes
• Experience with source control management practices and advanced branching techniques using Git
• Experience with Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions or comparable alternatives such as Jenkins and Octopus Deploy
• Experience with Artifactory or another Package Management / Repository tool
• Working experience with PowerShell
• Strong focus on customer satisfaction and support internal customers
• Extensive experience in enterprise, SaaS software development and/or operations
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices and techniques

What would make you really stand out

• Experience with or desire to work in an agile development environment (Scrum)
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes or similar container orchestration platforms
• Extensive experience developing with PowerShell or C#
• Experience with MS SQL Server and T-SQL
• A current certification in a DevOps tool such as Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert or GitHub Actions