Overview
Hybrid
$50 - $55
Contract - W2
Skills
API
Accessibility
Agile
Amazon CloudFront
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon RDS
Amazon S3
Docker
Facilitation
Git
GitHub
GitLab
Grafana
ITIL
JUnit
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Integration
Cypress
Dashboard
DevOps
Change Management
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Continuous Delivery
Amazon Web Services
Budget
Business Intelligence
Cadence
Change Control
Regulatory Compliance
Release Notes
Remote Desktop Services
Salesforce.com
PASS
Promotions
Quality Assurance
RAID
React Native
React.js
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Management
Mobile Testing
New Relic
System On A Chip
Nexus
OTA
SCA
Sarbanes-Oxley
Semantics
Spring Framework
Terraform
Virtual Private Cloud
Job Details
Release Engineer
Location: Plano TX
Note: Need 10-15 years of experience. And F2F might be needed if it is required. But need to be local.
Responsibilities:
- Own the bi-weekly release train across Product & Infrastructure; publish the release calendar and scope 10 business days in advance.
- Coordinate cross-functional readiness (Product, Eng, QA, SecOps, Support) with clear owners, cutlines, and a Go/No-Go meeting.
- Enforce the Release Readiness Checklist in CI/CD: clean-code/lint gates, agreed test-coverage thresholds, SAST/DAST, Veracod
e policy pass, SCA/secret scans, SBOM capture, performance/accessibility budgets. - Run branching, versioning, and tagging (semantic versions), manage RC builds, change tickets, and release notes.
- Automate delivery: build/test/scan/deploy pipelines, feature-flag rollouts, blue-green/canary deploys, automated rollback.
- Environment & config management (dev prod): infra-as-code reviews, promotion rules, artifact immutability.
- Live release operations: monitor health metrics during rollout, triage incidents, lead comms, drive MTTR and post-release validation.
- Continuous improvement: track DORA metrics, lead post-incident/post-release reviews, evolve templates, tooling, and policies.
- Compliance & auditability: maintain release/runbooks, approvals, and traceability for security/regulatory needs.
Qualifications (Must-Have)
- 10 12 years in Release/DevOps/Build Engineering for cloud-hosted products.
- AWS experience (one or more): EKS/ECS or Lambda, API Gateway/ALB, S3/CloudFront, RDS/DynamoDB, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch.
- Hands-on: Salesforce and Capado
- CI/CD ownership with GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab; artifact repos (Artifactory/Nexus); Docker; K
ubernetes/Helm. - Security gates hands-on: SAST, DAST, Ve
racode (policy config, gating), plus SCA/secret scanning and SBOM. - Codebase familiarity: releasing React, React Native, and Spring Boot apps (build chains, packaging, env configs).
- IaC (Terraform or CloudFormation) and config management best practices.
- Observability: dashboards/alerts with Datadog/New Relic/Prometheus + Grafana; log aggregation (ELK/OpenSearch).
- Git expertise: branching models, change control, semantic versioning.
- Strong communicator: crisp status, risk/RAID management, stakeholder updates; facilitation of Go/No-Go forums.
- Agile delivery: comfortable running a predictable every-two-weeks
cadence.
Qualifications (Nice-to-Have)
- Feature-flag platforms (e.g., LaunchDarkly), OTA/CodePush, Fastlane (mobile).
- Test frameworks & coverage tooling: JUnit, Jest/Cypress, SonarQube.
- Performance and accessibility budgets (Lighthouse/axe) for web.
- Certifications: AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA/CKAD, Securi
ty+ or equivalent. - Experience with compliance contexts (SOC 2, SOX) and change management/ITIL.
- Familiarity with DORA/SRE practices (error budgets, SLIs/SLOs).
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