Release Engineer

Job Title: Release Engineer

Location: Plano, TX- Onsite

Job Type: Contract Only W2

Duration: 12+ Months

Key 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, Veracode 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 copado
• CI/CD ownership with GitHub Actions/Jenkins/GitLab; artifact repos (Artifactory/Nexus); Docker; Kubernetes/Helm.
• Security gates hands-on: SAST, DAST, Veracode (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, Security+ or equivalent.
• Experience with compliance contexts (SOC 2, SOX) and change management/ITIL.
• Familiarity with DORA/SRE practices (error budgets, SLIs/SLOs).