Release Engineer - Plano, TX at Photon
Plano, Texas, USA -
Full Time


Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

28 Nov, 25

Salary

44000.0

Posted On

28 Aug, 25

Experience

12 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

No

Skills

Jenkins, Sca, Scanning, Web, Junit, Security, Packaging, Dashboards, Salesforce, Docker, Security+, Models, Facilitation, React Native, Sonarqube

Industry

Information Technology/IT

Description

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).
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
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