Release Engineering Lead Azure Devops

Client Server Limited; Reigate; Híbrido; GBP 117 000 - 143 000; Tempo integral

Vantagens oferecidas por esta oferta de emprego

Hybrid working

Enhanced parental leave

25 days holiday

Pension

Health Care

Life Assurance

Training and career development

Social events

Resumo da oferta

Client Server Limited is seeking a Release Engineering Lead (Azure DevOps SaaS) to own how software is packaged, released and presented to customers in a growing SaaS environment. The role blends hands‑on release management with shaping release practices across multiple teams.

You will manage day‑to‑day releases for a product stack, coordinate risks and release readiness, improve CI/CD pipelines, governance, security and compliance, and drive automation to reduce toil.

Qualificações

• Strong Release Management experience in a SaaS product environment.
• Hands-on DevOps experience within an Azure cloud environment.
• Experience improving CI/CD processes in complex environments.
• Strong communication, risk-based decision making and stakeholder influence.

Responsabilidades

• Own how software is packaged, released and presented to customers.
• Manage day-to-day releases and coordinate risks, dependencies and readiness.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines, automation, governance, security and compliance.
• Define release readiness criteria and metrics; drive release health practices.
• Coach and influence engineering teams towards improved release maturity.

Conhecimentos

Release management

DevOps

Azure

CI/CD

Stakeholder comms

GitOps IaC

Ferramentas

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Infrastructure as Code

GitOps

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Release Engineering Lead (Azure DevOps SaaS) Reigate / WFH to £130k

Do you have a DevOps background combined with strong release management experience in a SaaS environment?

You could be progressing your career, working on complex and challenging systems at a global InsurTech business and enjoying a range of perks and benefits including flexible working.

As a Release Engineering Lead you'll take ownership of how software is packaged, released and presented to customers within a growing SaaS environment, combining hands‑on release management with the opportunity to shape and modernise release practices across a wider technology estate.

A significant part of your role will involve managing day‑to‑day releases for an assigned product stack, you'll coordinate risks, dependencies and release readiness across multiple teams, making informed decisions that balance delivery speed, quality, security and business risk.

Alongside this operational responsibility, you'll assess existing release processes and help establish more consistent, coherent and automated approaches across products and engineering teams. You'll reduce manual effort and release toil by improving CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and release automation, while embedding governance, security and compliance into the delivery process.

You'll also define and improve release readiness criteria, delivery and release metrics, environment promotion models and release health practices. Your experience should cover automated testing, deployment orchestration, blue / green or ring‑based deployments, observability and monitoring within modern SaaS environments.

This is a highly visible role involving release management, DevOps, platform tooling, governance, coaching and organisational change. You'll build credibility quickly, assess the current estate, form clear recommendations and lead teams towards improved release maturity. Coaching and influencing engineering teams will be central to the role, helping developers adopt better practices while creating a smoother, more reliable release experience.

WFH Policy:

There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet‑ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days' work from home.

About you:

• You have strong Release Management experience in a SaaS product environment, managing frequent releases
• You have hands‑on experience in a previous DevOps role within an Azure cloud environment
• You have experience of improving CI/CD processes in complex environments
• You combine strong technical knowledge with confident communication, sound risk based decision making and the ability to influence stakeholders across the organisation
• You have a good technical understanding of Azure DevOps, GitHub, Infrastructure as Code, trunk‑based development and GitOps

What's in it for you:

• Up to £130k salary plus significant bonus
• Hybrid working (3 days a week work from home)
• Enhanced parental leave
• 25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off)
• Pension (up to 10% contribution)
• Health Care and Life Assurance
• Training and career development
• Social events and a range of other perks

Release Engineering Lead Azure DevOps Reigate, Surrey, England