Company Overview:

EK3 is a full-service In-Store Digital Merchandising provider operating in all 10 Canadian provinces & 3 territories, 32 U.S. States, Ireland, England, Sweden, Spain, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Algeria, and United Arab Emirates.  Treating each store as a unique marketing entity and pioneering the concept of Smart Store NetworksTM, EK3 specializes in SaaS-based solutions, deployment and technical services, strategic planning, content creation and media sales.  With well over a decade of research and development experience, EK3 has deployed some of the world’s biggest and most complex digital networks using proprietary state-of-the-art technology and patented software.  

The EK3 Technology Team innovates and develops the software services and architecture that make EK3 the market leader in In-Store Digital Merchandising.  The team consists of highly technical, energetic, and diversely talented individuals.  We value innovation, collaboration, teamwork, excellence, and fun.

Position Responsibilities:

• Support and improve EK3 tools for continuous integration, automated testing and release management
•  Administer, manage, and maintain source control system and release branches
•  Automating builds and smoke and regression tests
•  Support non-functional testing, including load, performance, security, reliability testing
•  Building and maintaining tools needed during release pushes
•  Building product knowledge to ensure stable environments
•  Create or assist in documenting system configuration, deployment and rollback guides
•  Building and maintaining server environments to support Dev and QA teams
•  Advocate new tools and processes to continuously improve build and source control

Education and Experience:

• Minimum bachelor degree in Computer Science equivalent training and experience
• 3+ years’ experience in software configuration management, in particular release and build management
• 3+ years’ experience with build automation tools and continuous Integration tools, such as Maven, RPM, Bamboo and Jira
• 3+ years’ experience with software version and release management and build generation
• 2+ years’ experience in managing testing environment and software deployment
• 1+ years’ experience in Web technologies including: HTTP, XHTML, XML, SOAP, web server, server-side Java.
• 2+ years’ experience with web and application servers such as; Apache, Tomcat and JBoss
• 1+ years’ experience in with scripting languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, etc.
• 1+ years’ experience with relational databases and SQL with MySQL and/or MS SQL servers
• Experience with general Linux system administration tasks and virtualization
• Knowledge of SSL; certs, keys, keystore,truststore, one-way, and two-way SSL authentication a plus

Compensation and Benefits: 

EK3 offers a competitive compensation package including employee bonus plan, a strong health benefits plan (dental and health care) , stock purchase plan and group retirement savings program.