Specialty Development Practitioner

Position Description

Our Company deploys apps on a global scale. This position is part of the App Deployment team which enables global app teams to automatically build, test, and deploy their iOS, Android, and Android Automotive OS apps to mobile devices and our vehicles. The ideal candidate for this role will help create and manage tools that enable app teams to automate the deployment of their apps to the Apple App Store, Google Play Store or the Intune Company Portal.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop scalable automation and tools to support CI/CD and SDLC of app development teams.
• Implement and support deployment flows for mobile and in-vehicle apps through Apple App Store, Google Play Store and Intune Company Portal.
• Own and manage the Apple App Store and Google Play Store developer accounts, including securing signing keys, certificates, provisioning profiles and API keys.
• Suggest and develop new features/practices to meet app development teams’ needs.
• Use APIs of development tools to integrate and seamlessly automate releases.
• Support and mentor app development teams on best practices for CI/CD, cutting down manual effort and improving efficiency.
• Troubleshoot and resolve failures/rejections, concurrently improving automation to quickly alert app development teams to such issues
• Handle security scans, understand security vulnerabilities and communicate the actions needed to address them.
• Assist business owned app teams by communicating and leading required changes of their app by the vendor.
• Protect our Company developer accounts, brand reputation and improve app quality.
  
  

Skills Required

• The ideal candidate for this role will have multiple years of experience in these areas.
• Proven ability to develop in multiple programming languages including Ruby, Python, Bash. Optional experience in development on Swift, Java and/or Kotlin.
• Competence in concepts such as code signing, cryptography, certificate management, secret management concepts for iOS and Android apps.
• Experience in the development and deployment of Android and/or iOS apps
• Familiarity of App Store Connect API, Play Publishing API, Microsoft Graph API, Fastlane, GitHub and Jenkins.
• Experience in developing automation used for deployment of apps using GitHub actions and a self-hosted runner
• Involvement in concurrently managing multiple apps of different types
  
  

Skills Preferred

• Proven experience in the development and deployment of both iOS and Android mobile apps to the Apple App Store and Google Play Store.
• Thorough understanding of Apple App Store and Google Play Store capabilities and requirements.
• Experience with Xcode, Android Studio, GitHub and other common app development technologies.
• Experience with cloud-based technologies leveraged for automation.
• SME level experience with iOS and Android app development and devices.
• Experience deploying apps to managed devices via Intune.
  
  

Experience Required

• 3-7 years
  
  

Education Required

• Bachelors degree or equivalent
  
  

Additional Info

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet . We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories . Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra . We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years !

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest . Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Benefits

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
  
  

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Workplaces in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 , 2022 and 2023!

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