Senior Release Management Engineer Location: Vienna, VA or Pensacola, FL Pay Rate: Open to Both C2C and W2 options Position Type: Multiyear ContractBasic Purpose: Reviews Lower (non-Production) environments and associated activities to ensure compliance with Enterprise standards and the ISD Environments Management Directive, preventing, or at least documenting and/or remediating any known gaps. Additionally, ensure adequate preparation for implementation of IT Service modifications in the Production environments, in a manner that protects and enhances operational availability. This includes learning the Clients controls, while operating as a Release Manager, which entails assisting Release Owners manage their lower environments' work and providing oversight review and approval of their activities, leveraging the candidate's industry experience and knowledge. Specific Qualifications: *Has 7+ Years of experience working in IT Environments Management for large, complex and mission-critical applications *Demonstrates effective English communications skills, both written and verbal *Has significant understanding of software build and release processes, including associated risks and considerations *Has significant experience working within a team, and independently, performing root cause analysis *Works independently with minimal oversight (Mid-Level to Highly Experienced) *Possesses a degree or formal training in Computer Science and/or Information Technology *Holds certification in appropriate engineering disciplines *Has working knowledge of SharePoint and ServiceNow ITSM *Demonstrates understanding, and the purposes and uses, of Lower / non-Production environments in an enterprise environment *Strong understanding of Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC), including Waterfall and Agile methodologies (Preferably SAFe) *Experience or strong understanding of cloud management, preferably Azure *Has significant experience with distributed systems architectures, possessing understanding of associated management tools *Experience in the development of medium to highly complexed distributed business applications *Strong understanding of Change & Release Management frameworks and processes *Strong understanding of Risk management and associated frameworks, preferably ISACA COBIT 5 and/or similar frameworks Highly Desired Experience With: *Finance Industry *ITIL concepts, especially Service Transition, and/or certification in ITIL *DevOps and/or Agile concepts and/or certification in DevOps *Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) Experience *Testing, and related automation *Experience with ServiceNow as a power user and/or developer and/or administrator *Cloud computing, with specific understanding of: Azure *Security concepts: access control and authorization *Distributed technology (AIX, Linux, UNIX and Windows): WebSphere, .Net, Lotus Notes, Java, SOA *Working experiences with FIS Data Obfuscation (DO) Tool and/or IBM OPTIM *DBMS: DB2, Oracle, SQL Server, Progress and Teradata *Testing (Unit, Functional, Performance and Stress/Load), including Automation / Scripting *Automation/scripting: PERL, Python, WSS, BAW (BPA/BPM), Pega, etc. *Collecting and delivering detailed information, with analysis/interpretation, to personnel of varying levels, from engineer through management *Supporting multi-tier applications *Application development *COTS support Nice to Have Experience With: *IBM Mainframe (z Series) configuration items including data, applications and infrastructure: COBOL, CICS, Assembler, REXX, JCL, FileAid, AbendAid, Strobe and SysView; *Reporting: Crystal Reports and Cognos *WebSphere Engineering and Administration responsibilities *Administering middleware application servers (WebSphere, MQ, IBM BPM, JBoss, .Net, etc). Specific Duties: *The engineer will assist in the management of multiple complex environments to ensure continuous systems availability, in support of IT services/products including build, maintenance and testing - throughout the release lifecycle *Participate in projects as an Environments/Release Management resource teaching, supporting, and reviewing designs, plans and execution of associated activities *Lead and participate in Team initiatives *Coach and mentor junior Team Members Hours of Operations: Weekdays from 8:00am to 5:00pm EST