Configuration Release Engineer

Primary Function of Position

This role is to support, enhance, optimize, and innovate the embedded software build environment for the minimally invasive DaVinci Single Port surgical robot. The ideal candidate will have proven experience and is a motivated self-starter with the ability to make autonomous decisions by working cross org in a result oriented manner within a regulated environment.

Roles And Responsibilities

• Support small to mid-sized development teams by maintaining development pipeline consisting of compiler toolchain and build infrastructure by using infrastructure as code for dynamic environments.
• Support activities in legacy and future product development pipeline for embedded platform.
• Focusing on infrastructure automation and execution of infrastructure as code methodologies along with maintaining, troubleshooting, and improving build tool pipelines.
• Proactively monitor and resolve issues for emake builds (e.g., long build times due to machines going down).
• Setup Windows and Linux machines (physical and virtual) for emake builds (e.g., new hires or replacement laptops for existing engineers).
• Onboard new and existing engineers using physical and virtual infrastructure.
• Setup Bazel/cmake builds for new hardware and software.
• Provide on call support for critical applications as required.
• Participate in the development, execution, and support of Infrastructure management and operations.
• Establish infrastructure monitoring and health reporting for advancement of self-healing infrastructure principles.
• Enhance/extend a configuration/deployment/monitoring framework in partnership with IT Engineer(s).
• Optimize make files and build scripts.
• Interact with internal customers and development team to gather and define requirements and document architecture.
• Follows a formal design process using formal specifications, data flow diagrams, other accepted design techniques.
• Deploy and manage a build pipeline using tools such as: Ansible, Jenkins, BitBucket, GitLab CI.
• Continuously evaluate existing systems with industry standards, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Help increase system performance with a focus on high availability and scalability.

Qualifications

• Team player with good communication skills.
• Minimum 3-5 years embedded build infrastructure management, Systems/Infrastructure, or related engineering experience.
• Hands on experience in enabling Bazel builds for new hardware targets in existing software infrastructure.
• Hands-on experience with observability ecosystem like ElasticSearch, Kibana, Fluentbit, Logstash etc.
• Proficiency in scripting including Batch, Python, and Matlab. Ability to use scripting to automate repetitive tasks.
• Ability to use bash in multiple platforms including WSL, Linux, Cygwin and Windows.
• Comfortable using version control systems like Git, SVN.
• Experience with one or more of embedded toolsets like cross compilers toolchains, gnu gcc etc.
• Knowledge and experience with build systems and tools of CMake, EMake, Make etc.
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline and Build tools such as Jenkins, BitBucket etc.
• Technical troubleshooting skills using windows diagnostic tools such as wireshark, smb and linux based diagnostic tools such as pdb (python debugger), strace, tcpdump, dbg (c debugger).
• Experience with maintaining infrastructure with Linux and Windows OS.
• Minimum B.S in Computer Science or related technical major, or commensurate experience.