Software Release Engineer

Pearson Education is a business of Pearson (NYSE: PSO; LSE: PSON), the international media company with market leading businesses in education, business information and consumer publishing. Pearson's primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. For more information about Pearson Education, see http://www.pearsoned.com

This opportunity exists within Pearson School Systems (PSS). Part of the Pearson Education family, Pearson School Systems (PSS) organization focuses on enterprise solutions for K-12 school districts, with a dedicated focus on the increasingly important student performance management segment.

Pearson Education is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/V/D.

Responsibilities will include maintaining and developing tools used for source code / change management. It will require skills needed to develop and maintain installation and update scripts for the PowerSchools product line. Developing internal tools used within the Development and QA organizations will also be required.

' Must be able to own the build process. Includes creating tools sets to enhance functionality / efficiency, executing the tools and maintaining the tool set. Experience with various open source build tools/projects is a plus. (Ant, cruise control, j-unit, tinder box, etc)
' Experience with creating, maintaining and managing CM depots. Experience with CVS or equivalent required. Experience with Perforce, ClearCase or sub Version is a plus.
' Must be experienced with the following programming languages
o Java (2-5 yrs) (Swing and JSP a plus)
o Perl (2-5 yrs) (CGI a plus)
o System level scripting (2-5 yrs) (bash, CMD, ').
o Experience with various scripting languages is a plus (AppleScript, VBScript).
' Experience with Installers is a requirement. Must be able to design, develop, and maintain installers for PowerSchool application suite. InstallShield / Install-AnyWhere experience is a preferred.
' Must have advanced user level experience with various O/S (Mac OS/X, Linux, Windows server series).
' SQL experience is a requirement. Experience with various relational database is a plus. (MySQL, Oracle, Sybase, etc.)
' Must have proven track record for implementing
o Efficiency
o Best practices
o Process improvement
' Must be able to multi-task and meet deadlines in a fast paced environment.
' Must be able to communicate with multiple teams to resolve issues.

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