Description
🗂 We’re Hiring: Release Engineer
🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time
💼 Level: Entry-Level to Mid-Level
We are seeking a detail-oriented, technically skilled, and proactive Release Engineer to manage and improve software release processes across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
This role is ideal for individuals passionate about automation, CI/CD, DevOps, software delivery, and building reliable release pipelines.
🎯 Key Responsibilities
• Manage and coordinate software releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines for reliable and automated software delivery.
• Automate build, deployment, testing, and release processes.
• Coordinate release schedules, deployment plans, and production rollouts with engineering teams.
• Monitor release activities and ensure deployments are completed successfully.
• Troubleshoot build failures, deployment issues, configuration problems, and release-related incidents.
• Implement version control, branching, tagging, and release management strategies.
• Maintain release documentation, deployment procedures, checklists, and technical records.
• Collaborate with Software Engineers, QA Engineers, DevOps Engineers, Product Managers, and IT teams.
• Support rollback, recovery, and emergency release procedures when required.
• Manage application configurations, environment variables, dependencies, and deployment artifacts.
• Implement automated quality gates and testing within release pipelines.
• Monitor deployment performance and identify opportunities to improve release reliability and efficiency.
• Support infrastructure and environment provisioning for software releases.
• Ensure releases comply with security, quality, operational, and organizational standards.
• Continuously evaluate and introduce tools and practices that improve software delivery.
✅ Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred.
• Previous experience in release engineering, DevOps, software development, QA, or system administration is an advantage.
• Fresh graduates and entry-level candidates with relevant technical knowledge are welcome to apply.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle and software release processes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Git and version control workflows.
• Basic programming or scripting skills in Python, Bash, PowerShell, JavaScript, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, cloud platforms, or infrastructure automation is an advantage.
• Understanding of build systems, deployment pipelines, environments, and configuration management.
• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or other cloud platforms is a plus.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent attention to detail and ability to manage multiple releases and priorities.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced engineering environment.
• Strong interest in DevOps, automation, cloud technologies, and modern software delivery practices.
🌟 What We Offer
• Hands-on experience managing modern software release and deployment processes.
• Exposure to CI/CD, DevOps, cloud infrastructure, automation, and production environments.
• Opportunities to develop expertise in release engineering and software delivery automation.
• Career progression into Senior Release Engineer, DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or DevOps Lead roles.
• A collaborative, innovative, and technology-driven working environment.
• Training, mentorship, and professional development opportunities.
• Opportunity to work with modern development and deployment technologies.
• Competitive compensation with performance-based incentives.