Software Engineer II – Release & Deploy

Jobtailor; Toronto; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in Toronto, ON seeks a Release Engineer to own CI/CD pipelines across Azure, Kubernetes, and production. You will coordinate releases, implement reusable workflows, and troubleshoot failures while ensuring security and change-management compliance.

The role collaborates with development, infrastructure, operations, and security teams to optimize deployment standards and governance. The position emphasizes automation, incident response, and platform modernization with opportunities to

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Azure infrastructure, and production monitoring.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate application and infrastructure releases across non-production and production environments.

Skills

CI/CD

Azure

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Linux

Bash

Python

Docker

SQL Server

Kubernetes

Tools

Dynatrace

Splunk

Datadog

Asynchronous Messaging

Helm

Job description

• Coordinate application and infrastructure releases across non-production and production environments
• Support release planning, readiness assessments, implementation activities, and post-deployment validation
• Create, review, and maintain CI/CD workflows and reusable patterns across repositories
• Troubleshoot build, test, security scan, artifact publication, infrastructure, and application deployment failures
• Support release windows and maintenance events, including health verification and rollback
• Create and maintain change records, implementation plans, validation steps, rollback procedures, and release evidence
• Ensure releases meet enterprise risk, audit, security, and change-management requirements
• Coordinate technical reviews and approvals across application, infrastructure, operations, and platform stakeholders
• Maintain repository and release controls, including required checks, code ownership, branch protection, release tags, and secure secrets handling
• Assess environment readiness and deployment dependencies across development, test, and production environments
• Monitor environment health and deployment performance and identify configuration drift and dependency failures
• Use monitoring, logs, traces, and correlation IDs to triage availability and performance issues
• Improve dashboards, service-level indicators, synthetic checks, and alert routing
• Support incident investigation and complete follow-up actions
• Support platform upgrades, pipeline updates, cloud migrations, and technology-modernization initiatives
• Adapt delivery workflows for application and infrastructure changes
• Test workflow changes before wider rollout using validation and rollback criteria
• Contribute to container and Kubernetes delivery practices and front-end module pipelines
• Develop release runbooks, deployment standards, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides
• Automate repetitive release and support tasks
• Use deployment, incident, and reliability metrics to prioritize improvements
• Turn lessons from failed releases and incidents into process or automation changes
• Collaborate with development, infrastructure, operations, security, and platform teams
• Communicate release status, risks, environment issues, and implementation results
• Escalate issues with evidence and coordinate ownership across teams

Requirements

• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, Azure infrastructure, and production monitoring
• Experience with GitHub Actions, reusable workflows, event triggers, environments, approvals, secrets, runners, Git, and repository controls
• Experience with Microsoft Azure and Terraform, including plan and apply workflows, modules, remote state, application hosting, configuration, diagnostics, and platform metrics
• Experience with Dynatrace, centralized logging, distributed tracing, alerting, synthetic monitoring, and platforms such as Splunk or Datadog
• Experience with Linux, Bash or Python, Docker, and sufficient Java/Maven and Node.js/npm knowledge to diagnose build and pipeline failures
• Working familiarity with enterprise change management, security scanning, artifact management, and secrets management tools
• Experience supporting releases and production operations for customer-facing systems
• Ability to safely modify pipeline code and configuration written by others
• Strong troubleshooting across application, pipeline, infrastructure, and external-dependency boundaries
• Experience with formal change controls and implementation or maintenance windows
• Clear written and verbal communication
• Kubernetes, Azure Kubernetes Service, and Helm experience is useful
• Experience with SQL Server and asynchronous messaging technologies such as JMS or Kafka is useful
• Regulated financial services, audit evidence, or segregation-of-duties controls experience is useful

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in CI/CD processes, Azure infrastructure management, and production monitoring, with a strong focus on troubleshooting and improving deployment workflows. Proficient in collaborating across teams to ensure compliance with enterprise risk and change management standards.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• CI/CD Workflow Management
• Azure Infrastructure Experience
• GitHub Actions Proficiency
• Troubleshooting Across Environments
• Change Management Familiarity

Hard Skills

• CI/CD
• Azure
• GitHub Actions
• Terraform
• Linux
• Bash
• Python
• Docker
• SQL Server
• Kubernetes

Soft Skills

• Clear Communication
• Collaboration

Industry Keywords

• Change Management
• Security Scanning
• Artifact Management
• Regulated Financial Services
• Audit Evidence

Tools & Technologies

• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• Datadog
• Asynchronous Messaging Technologies
• Helm