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The individual must be capable of leading a technical team in a hands-on manner, partnering closely with Security, Engineering, and QA on release readiness, and driving the long-term pipeline, environment, and deployment roadmap in support of fast, safe, and repeatable software delivery. \nEssential Duties:\nThe duties listed below are the essential functions of this position, and they may change as the needs of the company demand. 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\nOwns release management for the organization, including release cadence and calendaring, versioning strategy, release train coordination across engineering teams, and change approval gates for production releases. \nDefines and leads the organization’s deployment strategy, implementing progressive delivery patterns such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments, automated rollback, and metrics-based promotion criteria to reduce release risk. \nEvaluates and introduces deployment and progressive-delivery tooling (e.g., Argo Rollouts, Flagger, service mesh or load-balancer-based traffic shifting, feature-flag platforms) to support safe, incremental rollout of changes. \nOwns workload-level orchestration and deployment routing within Kubernetes clusters; consults the Cloud Infrastructure Director on any change affecting cluster-level networking, ingress, or the underlying load balancer/VNet. \nMaintains infrastructure-as-code and automation practices in support of pipeline, environment, and deployment tooling, conforming to IaC standards and module conventions set by the Cloud Infrastructure Director rather than maintaining a separate convention, and escalating pipeline-specific needs into that standard. \nEstablishes KPIs for pipeline reliability, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery (DORA metrics); drives continuous improvement through metrics, feedback loops, and formal retrospectives for release- and deployment-caused incidents, following the same RCA/AAR rigor used for infrastructure incidents. \nParticipates in joint incident triage with the Cloud Infrastructure Director per the shared decision tree, with both Directors paged simultaneously on production degradation; co-authors joint RCA/AAR, reviewed by the VP, for any incident where both release and infrastructure signals were present. \nBuilds, leads, and mentors a high-performing team of DevOps engineers; establishes clear career paths, skill development plans, and performance expectations; fosters a culture of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement. \nPromotes cross-functional collaboration between DevOps, Security, Development, and QA teams on release readiness, deployment safety, and incident learnings. \nOther duties as assigned. \nEducation/Training/Experience: \nBachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience) required. \n5-8 years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, or Software Engineering required. \n5+ years in leadership roles managing engineering or DevOps teams required. \nProven experience building and scaling CI/CD pipeline architecture and release processes required. \nDeep experience required with: CI/CD pipelines and tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) \nDevSecOps tooling, including SAST/DAST/SCA platforms (e.g., Snyk, Checkmarx, SonarQube), container/image scanning (e.g., Trivy, Aqua, Prisma Cloud), and secrets detection \nPolicy-as-code frameworks (e.g., 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