Senior Release Engineering Leader — GitOps & CI/CD

ManageXR; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 180,000 - 273,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

ESPP

Retirement plan

Generous PTO

Paid holidays

Wellness days

Job summary

PagerDuty in Toronto is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Release Engineering to lead the delivery system for a rapid AI-driven pace. You will guide pipelines defined in Git, define environments, and drive the CI/CD platform's adoption across Engineering.

You will hire, coach and grow senior engineers, own delivery metrics, and partner with AI-native development programs to shape how software is built and shipped at PagerDuty. Hybrid work model, on-site twice weekly.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in platform engineering, SRE or DevOps, including at least 5 years managing engineers.
• Proven experience leading a GitOps or deployment platform migration across many teams and clusters.
• A track record of taking a CI/CD platform from selection to full adoption across an engineering organization.
• Deep knowledge of Kubernetes, CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code.
• Hands‑on use of AI coding agents, with experience changing a pipeline or process because of their impact on delivery speed and stability.
• The ability to explain technical tradeoffs to executives in plain language.

Responsibilities

• Set the multi-year roadmap for how PagerDuty builds, tests and deploys software.
• Lead our GitOps transformation, so every environment is defined in Git and every change is promoted and rolled back the same way.
• Bring CI-quality checks into the developer and agent loop, so problems are caught in minutes, before code ever reaches a merge gate.
• Give engineers and AI agents short-lived, isolated environments to test changes safely.
• Rework code review so people spend their time on changes that carry real risk, with automated checks covering the rest, including verifying that AI-written tests actually test something.
• Take our next CI/CD platform from selection to full adoption across Engineering.
• Own our delivery metrics, including Change Failure Rate, and report them to engineering leadership monthly, pairing every speed metric with a quality measure.
• Keep the cost of CI and AI tooling predictable as usage grows.
• Hire, coach and grow senior engineers.

Skills

Platform engineering

SRE

DevOps

Team management

GitOps

CI/CD

Kubernetes

AI coding agents

Executive communication

Delivery leadership

Tools

Argo CD

Buildkite

CircleCI

Job description

PagerDuty in Toronto is seeking a Senior Engineering Manager, Release Engineering to lead the delivery system for a rapid AI-driven pace. You will guide pipelines defined in Git, define environments, and drive the CI/CD platform's adoption across Engineering.

You will hire, coach and grow senior engineers, own delivery metrics, and partner with AI-native development programs to shape how software is built and shipped at PagerDuty. Hybrid work model, on-site twice weekly.