Release Engineer I/II – CI/CD Automation & Release

Cubic Corporation; Ashburn (VA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubic Corporation in Ashburn, VA seeks a junior-to-mid-level software engineer to own and improve the release process for a distributed software platform. You will coordinate releases across the web control plane, runtime services, platform adapters, deployment charts, and supporting components.

The role emphasizes automation, systems integration, and predictable release workflows. You will begin under senior engineer guidance and progressively assume end-to-end ownership of planning,

Qualifications

• 2-4 years of professional software engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or release engineering experience.
• Ability to obtain a security clearance.
• Experience with Git, branching, tagging, PRs, and versioning.
• Experience with CI/CD systems and automated build or deployment pipelines.
• Familiarity with containers and modern deployment environments.
• Ability to read and troubleshoot code in at least one modern language.
• Comfort across multiple repositories and tracking dependencies.
• Experience diagnosing build/test/deployment failures.
• Strong written communication and attention to detail.
• Willingness to coordinate across multiple teams and schedules.

Responsibilities

• Fix defects and update dependencies to address security vulnerabilities.
• Plan and execute platform releases in coordination with the product release schedule.
• Coordinate versioning and release readiness across repositories, services, and components.
• Maintain release branches, tags, changelogs, release notes, and docs.
• Build and improve CI/CD automation for compiling, testing, packaging, publishing, and deploying releases.
• Validate releases in representative environments before promotion.
• Verify compatibility among control-plane services, runtime components, adapters, and integrations.
• Track dependencies and component revisions in each release.
• Coordinate with engineers, product owners, quality teams, platform teams, and stakeholders on scope and timing.
• Investigate failed builds, deployments, and release-validation tests.
• Document known issues, upgrade requirements, rollback procedures, and operational considerations.
• Establish repeatable release checklists, quality gates, and readiness reporting.
• Identify manual release steps and replace with automation.
• Participate in post-release verification and resolve issues.

Skills

DevOps experience

Git versioning

CI/CD pipelines

Containers

Programming language reading

Cross-repo coordination

Troubleshooting builds

Clear communication

Tools

Git

CI/CD tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Cubic Corporation in Ashburn, VA seeks a junior-to-mid-level software engineer to own and improve the release process for a distributed software platform. You will coordinate releases across the web control plane, runtime services, platform adapters, deployment charts, and supporting components.

The role emphasizes automation, systems integration, and predictable release workflows. You will begin under senior engineer guidance and progressively assume end-to-end ownership of planning,