Location: Santa Clara CA(locals) Duration: 6 months Sr. Build Release Engineer Job Description: ------------------------------------------------ Responsibilities: · Collaborate with engineering, QA, and service engineer teams on design of release management planning, product’s installation, configuration, and deployment processes. . Manage Subversion source code branching and merging. · Create and maintain software packaging for all environments according to Yahoo Best practices. · Manage and execute deployments between all environments including coordination of production releases with operations. · Create and maintain tools for software deployment automation. · Backup for software continuous integration and build automation when necessary. Requirements: · Bachelor degree in IT, CS, or related technical discipline · Knowledge of agile SDLC, software configuration management practices, release management methodologies and production deployment. · 5+ years experience as a release engineer for J2EE based applications · Expert with Subversion branching and merging. · Expert with Maven. · Experience with continuous integration systems (Hudson preferred) and post build steps. Strong scripting skills such as Perl · Excellent communication skills, energetic and fast learner.