Software Release Team Lead

La Fosse is seeking skilled, experienced, and highly motivated Software Team Leader, located in Bristol, to join our Software Engineering group. You will be working with a distributed team spread across the companies worldwide engineering centers. Your primary responsibilities will include release engineering and version control of production quality firmware releases.

Responsibilities:

• Release engineering and branch management for the production firmware releases.
• Providing tested releases of production quality downstream firmware to partners.
• Development of release plans in collaboration with various stakeholders.
• Documentation of release notes and effective communication to internal and external collaborators
• Management of entire release process, including branch management and all aspects of software version control.
• Management of CI pipelines for downstream firmware release processes.
• Line management, coaching and mentoring to a team of highly skilled software engineers.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience in Release management and Release automation of product quality system software.
• Experience in software building and build management – for official downstream software release candidates and formal releases.
• Engineering management experience leading a diverse team spread across multiple locations.

“Nice To Have” Skills and Experience:

• Experience in release management of production quality firmware in server segment.
• Hands on experience with Yocto SDK.
• Defect triaging and defect management experience of system software releases.
• Familiarity with QA of platform software for server platforms.
• Familiarity with open-source projects such as Linux Kernel, TF-A, EDK II and OpenBMC.