Release Engineer: Secure, Air-Gapped Deployments

Valarian Technologies; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Competitive salary

Employer pension contributions

Private health insurance

Hybrid work setup

Company retreats

Job summary

Valarian Technologies is seeking a Release Engineer to own the delivery pipelines and release lifecycle for Acra, ensuring secure, reliable deployment across cloud-native, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.

You will build secure build systems, artifacts, and deployment automation while enforcing cryptographic signing, SBOM generation, and deterministic updates across multiple environments. Hybrid London-based role.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional Release Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE experience with secure software delivery pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Own the Release Lifecycle: Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and release tooling for the Acra platform across multi-cloud, hybrid, on-prem, and air-gapped environments.
• Architect Air-Gapped & Offline Packaging: Design reproducible, self-contained release artifacts for environments with zero internet connectivity.
• Enforce Software Supply Chain Security: Implement signing, SBOM generation, and automated vulnerability gating across all pipelines.
• Automate Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Maintain release-side IaC and GitOps frameworks to ensure consistent posture and deterministic updates.
• Streamline Developer Velocity & Reliability: Collaborate with platform, security, and application teams to standardize versioning, branching, and automated testing feedback.
• Drive Release Readiness & Auditability: Produce immutable audit trails and evidence artifacts for government and commercial compliance.

Skills

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

Go

Python

Bash

Rust

Security

Scripting

Tools

ArgoCD

Flux

Terraform

Helm

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Tekton

Job description

Valarian Technologies is seeking a Release Engineer to own the delivery pipelines and release lifecycle for Acra, ensuring secure, reliable deployment across cloud-native, on-premise, and air-gapped environments.

You will build secure build systems, artifacts, and deployment automation while enforcing cryptographic signing, SBOM generation, and deterministic updates across multiple environments. Hybrid London-based role.