Release Engineer

We are hiring a Release Engineer for one of our clients in Plano TX.

Job 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 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).

Additional information:

• Visa: OPT EAD/H4-EAD/USC/GC/ GC-EAD
• Job Type: Contract
• Duration: 6 Months
• Final round will be F2F at client location (Plano TX)

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