Release Engineer

ITJ; Tijuana; On-site; MXN 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Payroll scheme

Christmas bonus 20 days

Vacation days 12

Saving fund 8%

Food coupons 11%

Medical insurance (employee)

Education reimbursement

Gym bonus

Paternity leave 10 days

Work-from-home bonus

Job summary

ITJ seeks a seasoned Release Manager/DevOps-focused Delivery leader to track and release software from dev-ready to production. You will drive weekly release trains, ensure test evidence, and maintain strict process controls across Jira, GitLab, and GitOps workflows.

You will optimize flow on a fast-moving engineering team, collaborate with architects and engineers, and own change control records, with a strong emphasis on automation and reliable delivery pipelines.

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).
• Working knowledge of Kubernetes and GitOps deployment.
• 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.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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; tell our customer teams what's shipping and when.
• 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; 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.

Skills

Technical delivery

Technical program management

Release management

DevOps

Software engineering

CI/CD

Git-based workflows

Kubernetes

GitLab

Tools

GitLab

Job description

We offer the following benefits:

• 100% payroll scheme


• 20 days - Christmas bonus


• 12 days of vacation on the first year


• 8% (cap) saving fund


• 11% (cap) of food coupons


• 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.

Manage dependencies across domains:

• 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.