Senior Release Engineer
CLEAResult2 months ago
Remote, United StatesSenior
Base Salary
$111k - $166k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own release planning and coordination across multiple teams and services, including schedules, cut-off dates, freeze windows, and go/no-go criteria.
- Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions across build, test, artifact, and deployment stages.
- Manage branching, versioning, and release strategies across PHP, .NET, and React codebases.
- Define and enforce quality gates by integrating Selenium and Playwright automated test suites into release pipelines.
- Coordinate deployments across development, staging, and production environments and own rollback and recovery procedures.
- Lead release readiness reviews, track work items and risks in Azure DevOps Boards, and secure required sign-offs.
- Maintain release notes, change logs, and complete audit trails for compliance and post-mortem purposes.
- Partner with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to remove bottlenecks and improve cycle time and deployment frequency.
- Establish release metrics and use them to drive process improvements and repeatable, self-service deployments.
- Use automation and AI tooling to optimize releases and QA automation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in release management, DevOps, or build/release engineering.
- At least 2 years of experience in a senior or lead capacity.
- Hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps, including Pipelines, Repos, Boards, and Artifacts, and with GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
- Strong understanding of branching and versioning strategies across multiple languages and runtimes.
- Experience integrating Selenium and Playwright automated testing into release pipelines as enforced quality gates.
- Working familiarity with .NET, React, and PHP application stacks.
- Knowledge of blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment patterns and rollback strategies.
- Ability to run go/no-go calls and coordinate cross-functional teams during releases or incidents.
- Preferred experience with Docker and Kubernetes containerization and orchestration.
- Preferred familiarity with Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
- Preferred knowledge of Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Bicep.
- Preferred exposure to NuGet, npm, and Composer artifact or package management.
- Experience in regulated or compliance-driven environments such as SOC 2 or ISO is preferred.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance.
- Company-paid health care concierge service.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Paid vacation, sick, personal, and parental leave.
- Paid volunteer time.
- Employee Recognition Program with gift card redemption.
- Employee Assistance Program.
- Access to on-demand training courses.
About CLEAResult
CLEAResult designs and runs energy-efficiency, demand response, and decarbonization programs for electric and gas utilities, governments, and large enterprises across North America. Its revenue comes from multi-year services contracts to deliver audits, retrocommissioning, market transformation initiatives, and incentive programs, often under utility sponsorship. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in Austin, Texas, CLEAResult is privately held and majority owned by Kohlberg & Company.