Release Engineer (CI/CD & Automation Focus)
Posted 1 day ago by Openmind Technologies
Negotiable
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Remote
Remote
Summary: The Release Engineer (CI/CD & Automation Focus) role is a remote position focused on designing and managing CI/CD pipelines within a complex multitenant SaaS environment. The engineer will ensure predictable and automated deployments while collaborating with various teams to enhance release governance. This position emphasizes the importance of discipline and traceability throughout the release lifecycle. The role is structured as a contract to hire opportunity.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across cloud-agnostic environments.
- Manage multitenant, multirepo ecosystems (20-30+ GitHub repositories) with strong versioning and release discipline.
- Standardize release processes to reduce deployment risk and improve engineering velocity.
- Implement automated deployment workflows with rollback strategies, tagging, and auditability.
- Collaborate with DevOps, platform, and product teams to ensure consistent, reliable deployments.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, environment inconsistencies, and release blockers.
- Strengthen governance around release readiness, change management, and traceability.
Key Skills:
- Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in cloud-native environments.
- Hands-on experience managing large multirepo ecosystems.
- Deep understanding of release engineering best practices, including rollback, tagging, and auditability.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting and automation skills.
- Detail-oriented, disciplined, and highly organized.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: undetermined
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Release Engineer (CI/CD & Automation Focus)
Location: 100% Remote- EST Time zone
Remote Role EST working hours
Terms: Contract to Hire
Client Insights operates a complex, multitenant SaaS platform with dozens of services and repositories. Our Release Engineering function ensures deployments are predictable, lowrisk, and fully automated.
About the Role
As a Release Engineer, you will own CI/CD pipeline design, release automation, and deployment governance across a multirepo, multitenant environment. You will bring discipline, repeatability, and traceability to every stage of the release lifecycle.
What You Will Do
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines across cloudagnostic environments.
- Manage multitenant, multirepo ecosystems (20 30+ GitHub repositories) with strong versioning and release discipline.
- Standardize release processes to reduce deployment risk and improve engineering velocity.
- Implement automated deployment workflows with rollback strategies, tagging, and auditability.
- Collaborate with DevOps, platform, and product teams to ensure consistent, reliable deployments.
- Troubleshoot pipeline failures, environment inconsistencies, and release blockers.
- Strengthen governance around release readiness, change management, and traceability.
What We re Looking For
- Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines in cloudnative environments.
- Handson experience managing large multirepo ecosystems.
- Deep understanding of release engineering best practices, including rollback, tagging, and auditability.
- Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Azure DevOps.
- Strong scripting and automation skills.
- Detailoriented, disciplined, and highly organized.
We are Equal Opportunity Employer