Head of Release Engineering & CI/CD Platforms

Hispanic Alliance for Career Enhancement; Woonsocket (RI); On-site; USD 130,295 - 260,590; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision coverage

Paid time off

Retirement plan

Wellness programs

Application details during process

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking an experienced leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness teams. You will guide CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, and deployment automation, from code commit to production, enabling fast, secure software delivery.

The role emphasizes architectural alignment, governance, and performance metrics, with cross-functional collaboration across Product, Security, Compliance, and Platform groups.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience, with people management skills in high-growth or high-availability environments
• 3+ years of deep hands-on background in CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness), cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
• 3+ years of experience optimizing complex build systems and branching/merging strategies
• 3+ years of experience bridging the gap between engineering depth and business impact
• 3+ years of experience focused on automation and customer service excellence

Responsibilities

• Hire, mentor, and grow a team of release engineers. Build a culture of operational excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning
• Design, scale, and maintain end-to-end build infrastructure and deployment automation—from code commit to production
• Define deployment standards, gating criteria, version control, and compliance/audit checkpoints without bottlenecking developer velocity
• Drive improvements in key DevOps metrics such as Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, MTTR, and Change Failure Rate
• Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and Platform teams to align release processes with business objectives
• Oversee change control processes, complex multi-team dependency mapping, and deployment safety measures

Skills

Leadership & people mgmt

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes & Docker

Release governance

SRE metrics

Cross-functional collaboration

Automation focus

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Harness

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

Docker

Job description

CVS Health is seeking an experienced leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness teams. You will guide CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, and deployment automation, from code commit to production, enabling fast, secure software delivery.

The role emphasizes architectural alignment, governance, and performance metrics, with cross-functional collaboration across Product, Security, Compliance, and Platform groups.