Release Engineer

ITJ; Tijuana; In loco; MXN 900.000 - 1.300.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Gym bonus

Education reimbursement

Vacation bonus

Paternity leave

Home office stipend

Descrizione del lavoro

ITJ seeks a Release Manager to oversee end-to-end delivery, from dev-ready to production, focusing on removing blockers and enforcing efficient flow. You will manage CI/CD pipelines, Git-based workflows, and Kubernetes/GitOps deployments while coordinating cross-functional teams.

You will drive weekly release trains, prepare release notes, and ensure accurate status in Jira/GitLab. A strong communicator with a bias for action will help shorten cycle times and improve release frequency.

Competenze

• 5+ years in technical delivery, technical program management, release management, DevOps, or software engineering.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Git-based workflows (GitLab preferred).
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps deployment.
• Experience running releases and change control in regulated environments.
• Track record of improving flow on a fast-moving engineering team with measurable results.
• Clear, direct communication and accountability for senior engineers while staying collaborative.
• Bias for action: anticipate stalled work and drive it to shipment.

Mansioni

• Track every committed story from dev-ready through release and surface aging work.
• Drive work in progress down; enforce WIP limits and prevent started-but-unfinished work.
• Diagnose blockers (unclear requirements, pending reviews, unmerged deps, failed pipelines).
• Clear path to removal: know who to bring in to unblock barriers; avoid doing the engineering yourself.
• Have constructive conversations with engineers to unblock progress beyond Jira updates.
• Run releases end to end and manage weekly release trains.
• Prepare release scope, environment readiness, and release notes.
• Run and monitor test suites and verify test evidence before promotion.
• Ship releases to staging/production via GitOps with rollback plans.
• Map dependencies across infra, software, and safety; flag risks early.
• Capture sequencing from architects and keep team aligned.

Conoscenze

CI/CD

Git workflows

Kubernetes

GitOps

Release management

Communication

Process improvement

GitLab

Strumenti

GitLab

Descrizione del lavoro

• Employer-paid medical, dental, vision, and life insurance; medical insurance for employees, Gym bonus support
• Education reimbursement (Up to MXN 54,000 per year)
• 30% vacation bonus
• 10 days paternity leave
• Work at Home Bonus for office equipment 1-time MXN 5,000

What you'll do:

• Track every committed story from dev-ready through release, and make stalled or aging work visible early.
• Actively drive work in progress down: help the team finish before starting, and keep work-in-progress limits honest.
• Diagnose why work is stuck at any stage, such as an unclear requirement, a pending review, an unmerged dependency, a failing pipeline, a pending infrastructure change, or missing test evidence.
• Know where to go and who to bring in to remove each barrier; you'll clear the path rather than do the engineering yourself.
• Have direct, constructive conversations with engineers when work stalls, going beyond status updates and Jira hygiene to real, meaningful unblocking support
• Run releases end to end.
• Run a weekly release train, including schedules, cutoffs, and go/no-go decisions
• Prepare releases: confirm scope, verify environment readiness, and assemble release notes.
• Run and monitor test suites, interpret the results, and confirm test evidence is in place before promotion.
• Ship releases to staging and production through our GitOps workflow, with rollback plans ready.
• Map dependencies across infrastructure, software, and safety, and flag risks before they cause delays.
• Capture the sequencing that comes out of initiative kickoffs with the architects, and hold the team to it.

Own release documentation and communication:

• Manage change control records and release evidence.
• Keep Jira and GitLab accurate, so the status of every commitment is clear without anyone having to ask.
• Tell our customer teams what's shipping and when.

Make delivery faster over time:

• Measure and improve cycle time from dev-ready to production, work in progress, throughput, release frequency, and change failure rate.
• Treat repeated manual work as a signal to automate; work with engineers to move release steps into the pipeline or to coding agents, such as test evidence, release notes, and change records.
• Adapt the delivery process as the team grows, keeping it as light as the environment allows.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years in technical delivery, technical program management, release management, DevOps, or software engineering, including time on a platform, infrastructure, or developer-tools team.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD and Git-based workflows (GitLab preferred), including running test suites and reading pipeline and test output.
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps deployment, enough to understand why a deployment is stuck and who can fix it.
• Experience running releases and change control in a regulated or high-governance environment.
• A track record of improving flow on a fast-moving engineering team, with examples you can quantify, such as shorter cycle times or higher release frequency.
• Clear, direct communication, and comfort holding senior engineers accountable while staying collaborative.
• A bias for action: you notice stalled work before anyone asks and follow through until it ships.