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At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger - helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.\nPosition Summary:\nCVS Health is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness. Release Engineering owns the safety, consistency, and recoverability of application, platform, infrastructure, and edge changes across CVS Health's pharmacy, retail, and digital technology ecosystem (~9,000 stores, centralized platforms, and edge/dispensing systems).\nThe team defines and enforces the standards, guardrails, gates, and validation logic into pipelines that ride on top of our existing CI/CD and DevX investments, and drives their consistent adoption. Success looks like every engineering team shipping through the same trusted, instrumented release path.\nRelease Engineering partners with SRE, Dev/Engineering, Infrastructure, and Change Management so that every production change is observable, validated, and reversible before it ships, and executes against reliability standards: Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), operational readiness requirements, SLO-based deployment policies, and incident-learning outcomes.\nPrimary Objectives:\nChange Failure Reduction\nOwn Change Failure Rate (CFR) as the primary success metric\nReduce deployment-induced incidents through deployment automation, validation, and recovery engineering \nMaintain release-to-incident correlation to support postmortems and problem management\nDeployment Guardrail & Governance Engineering\nDefine, enhance, operate CI/CD capabilities and deployment automation \nStandardize delivery patterns across application, infrastructure, and edge platforms \nImprove deployment reliability, consistency, and developer experience\nDeployment Safety & Validation\nEstablish automated pre- and post-deployment validation\nIntegrate synthetic testing, health checks, and observability signals into deployment workflows\nEnsure production health is verified before deployment completion\nFleet-Scale Deployment Management\nDefine and enforce ring-based deployment strategies for store, edge, and centralized platforms\nEnable progressive delivery, automated promotion gates, and controlled rollout strategies\nMinimize blast radius through phased deployment patterns\nRecovery Engineering\nEnsure every deployment has tested rollback or failback capabilities\nImprove recovery time for release-related incidents through automation\nEnable feature flags, traffic controls, and deployment safety mechanisms\nInfrastructure Change Reliability\nStandardize validation and rollback requirements for high-risk infrastructure changes\nAutomate post-maintenance verification and health validation\nPartner with infrastructure teams to improve change reliability and reduce change-induced incidents\nIncident & Learning Integration\nProvide deployment and change context during major incidents\nSupport release impact analysis during postmortems\nDrive deployment-related improvements from incident learnings and problem records\nLeadership Responsibilities\nBuild and develop a high-performing Release Engineering organization\nEstablish engineering-first delivery practices that prioritize reliability and safety, without adding adoption friction\nChampion automation, standardization, and continuous improvement across the software delivery lifecycle\nPartner with SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Change Management to improve production reliability. This role sits at intersection and must lead through cross-org influence\nSuccess Measures:\n90 Days\nEstablish CFR baseline across key platforms\nImplement standardized deployment validation and rollback requirements\nIntegrate PRR requirements into release workflows\n6 Months\nAutomated deployment validation operational for priority platforms\nRing-based deployment model implemented for selected domains\nMeasurable reduction in change-related incidents\n12 Months\nEnterprise deployment platform standardized across major domains\nAutomated deployment safety gates integrated with observability and SLO signals\nCFR and deployment recovery metrics consistently reported and improved\nRelease Engineering recognized as a key enabler of reliability and operational excellence\nRequired Qualifications:\n7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience, with people management skills in high-growth or high-availability environments\n3+ years of deep hands-on background in CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness), cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)\n3+ years of experience optimizing complex build systems and branching/merging strategies\n3+ years of experience bridging the gap between engineering depth and business impact\n3+ years of experience focused on automation and customer service excellence\nPreferred Qualifications:\nExceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement, ability to lead cross-functional teams, including offshore/onshore vendor teams\nExperience implementing and improving SRE metrics in distributed environments\nEducation:\nBachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)\nPay Range\nThe typical pay range for this role is:\n$130,295.00 - $260,590.00This pay range represents the base hourly rate or base annual full-time salary for all positions in the job grade within which this position falls. The actual base salary offer will depend on a variety of factors including experience, education, geography and other relevant factors. This position is eligible for a CVS Health bonus, commission or short-term incentive program in addition to the base pay range listed above. This position also includes an award target in the company’s equity award program. \nOur people fuel our future. Our teams reflect the customers, patients, members and communities we serve and we are committed to fostering a workplace where every colleague feels valued and that they belong.\nGreat benefits for great people\nWe take pride in offering a comprehensive and competitive mix of pay and benefits that reflects our commitment to our colleagues and their families.\nThis full-time position is eligible for a comprehensive benefits package designed to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of colleagues and their families. The benefits for this position include medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid time off, retirement savings options, wellness programs, and other resources, based on eligibility.Additional details about available benefits are provided during the application process and on Benefits Moments.\nWe anticipate the application window for this opening will close on: 10/24/2026Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state and local laws.","description_format":"text","description_chars":7209,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":7,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"phd","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Equity","Wellness"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Primary Care & Medical Centers","Pharmacies","Health Insurance & Benefits"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T10:31:43Z"}],"visa":[],"liveness":{"score":14,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.386,"p_room":0.35,"age_days":7,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:0","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-26T05:57:25Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":260590,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/cvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/cvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T01:30:23Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":411,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":4223},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=4223"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fcvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fcvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fcvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/cvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fcvs-health-senior-manager-release-engineering"}]}