Release Engineer: End-to-End Delivery & GitOps Leader

ITJ

Tijuana

On-site

MXN 600,000 - 900,000

Full time

7 days ago

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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.