Staff Release Engineer
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)1 day ago
Rockville, MD, USAStaff+
Base Salary
$84k - $180k/yr
Responsibilities
- Deploy software into production environments.
- Transition configuration-management deliverables to the appropriate production operations team.
- Act as the gatekeeper for new in-house application releases and change management before production deployment.
- Participate in release deployment calls and peer reviews of software configuration-management standards and methods.
- Document and communicate release results in a timely manner.
- Help drive defects and issues to closure through collaborative resolution.
- Lead or co-lead internal project- or program-level process-improvement initiatives.
- Provide process feedback and suggestions, comply with technology policies and security controls, and ensure work meets FINRA standards.
- Informally mentor more junior staff.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline, with at least three years of related experience, or equivalent training and/or work experience.
- Experience with release engineering, formal software configuration/release-management environments, application release-automation products, and ticketing-system software.
- Experience managing complex releases in a 24x7 production environment.
- Strong knowledge of change, problem, incident, and delivery management.
- Working knowledge of operating systems, development languages, products, and networking.
- Strong written and verbal technical communication skills and the ability to build effective working relationships.
- Ability to stay organized, manage competing priorities, learn new skills rapidly, and work in a fast-paced environment.
Benefits
- Hybrid work environment with defined in-person presence requirements; occasional travel, extended hours, weekend work, and rotational on-call duties may be required.
- Eligible employees may receive a discretionary bonus, and non-exempt employees may receive overtime pay.
- Health, dental, vision, life, disability, long-term-care, legal, and business-travel insurance options are provided.
- 401(k) plan with immediate participation and vesting, company match, and eligibility for an additional FINRA-funded retirement contribution.
- Tuition reimbursement, commuter benefits, adoption assistance, backup family care, surrogacy benefits, employee assistance, and wellness programs are available.
- Paid time off starts at 15 days and increases to 25 days with service, plus personal days, sick days, volunteer days, paid holidays, and other paid leave.
- Employees must comply with FINRA investment-account disclosure and securities-account restrictions.
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About Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA)
FINRA is the U.S. self-regulatory organization for broker-dealers, writing and enforcing rules, examining firms, surveilling markets, and running investor tools like BrokerCheck. A nonprofit formed in 2007 and headquartered in Washington, DC, it oversees compliance for over 3,300 firms and 610,000 registered brokers. FINRA is funded by member assessments and regulatory fees rather than taxpayer dollars, and builds large-scale data and surveillance systems used across U.S. securities markets.