Release Engineering Lead Azure DevOps

Overview

In this Release Engineering Lead role, you own how software is packaged, released and presented to customers within a growing SaaS environment. You combine hands-on release management with efforts to modernise release practices across the technology estate. You’ll manage day-to-day releases for a product stack, coordinate risks and readiness across teams, and drive automation, governance and secure delivery. You’ll coach engineering teams to raise release maturity and shape a scalable, observable release process.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working
• significant bonus
• 25 days holiday
• enhanced parental leave
• pension (up to 10%)
• health care and life assurance

Responsibilities

• Own packaging, release and presentation of software to customers in a SaaS environment
• Manage day-to-day releases for an assigned product stack and coordinate risks across teams
• Assess and improve release processes, aiming for consistency and automation
• Enhance CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and release automation while embedding governance and security
• Define release readiness criteria, release metrics, environment promotion models and release health practices
• Implement automated testing, deployment orchestration, blue/green or ring deployments, and observability
• Coach and influence engineering teams to adopt better release practices and improve release maturity

Key requirements

• Release Management experience in a SaaS product environment
• Hands-on DevOps experience in an Azure cloud environment
• Experience improving CI/CD processes in complex environments
• Strong technical communication, risk-based decision making and stakeholder influence
• Good understanding of Azure DevOps, GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, trunk-based development and GitOps

• strong communication
• stakeholder management
• coaching and mentoring
• Azure DevOps
• GitHub
• Infrastructure as Code

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