Senior Consultant, Release and Configuration

About Us

All people need connectivity.

The Rakuten Group is reinventing telecom by greatly reducing cost, rewarding big users not penalizing them, empowering more people and leading the human centric AI future.

The mission is to connect everybody and enable all to be.

Rakuten. Telecom Invented.

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Consultant, Release and Configuration

Location: Indore, M.P (Onsite)

Why should you choose us?

Are you interested in working for a Global Leader in E-commerce? Are you excited about working on highly scalable platforms and applications that are accessed by millions of users every day? If so, read on to find out more about the opportunity.

Rakuten Symphony is a Rakuten Group company, providing global B2B services for the mobile telco industry and enabling next-generation, cloud-based, international mobile services. Building on the technology Rakuten used to launch Japan’s newest mobile network, we are taking our mobile offering global. To support our ambitions to provide an innovative cloudnative telco platform for our customers, Rakuten Symphony is looking to recruit and develop top talent from around the globe. We are looking for individuals to join our team across all functional areas of our business – from sales to engineering, support functions to product development. Let’s build the future of mobile telecommunications together!

About Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to approximately 1.5 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has over 27,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit https://global.rakuten.com/corp/.

Key Activities

• Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules
• Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components
• Managing relationships working on interrelated processes
• Communicating crucial release plans and changes
• Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards
• Coordinating processes between different teams (possibly in various locations)
• Communicating necessary release details to business teams
• Managing, planning, and negotiating release activities
• Initiating and overseeing progressive release processes
• Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans
• Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
• Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders
• Working with release engineers to comprehend code merges and branch ramifications
• Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution
• Developing automation and release management tools along with scripts necessary for the construction, continuous integration, and deployment of software release
• Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations
• Managing the development of deliverables into production environments
• Validating release notes
  
  

Rakuten Shugi Principles

Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviours that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

• Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
• Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.
  
  

Job Requirement

Core Skills And Qualifications

• Excellent programming skills and experience
• Ability to handle software infrastructure management & configuration management
• A computer science degree or a similar discipline
• A two to six-year experience in using project or release management tools
• An expert understanding of software development lifecycle
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion