Release Engineer

Hi All,

Greetings!

I am John from JPS Tech Solutions LLC., We are currently seeking qualified candidates for Release Engineer w ith our client in the US and would appreciate receiving suitable applications for immediate consideration.

Role: Release Engineer

Job Work: Plano, Taxes, US

Work Mode: Onsite

W2


JD for Release Engineer:
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 Capado
• 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).

Note:

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