Senior DevOps & Release Engineer - CI/CD Architect

Nasuni; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, dental and vision plans

401(k) and Roth IRA retirement plan

Flexible remote work policy

Paid time off

Life and disability insurance

Professional development resources

Job summary

Nasuni is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer – Release Engineering in a hybrid Boston/Marlborough setting to own complex CI/CD pipelines, build and test infrastructure, and automate releases across multiple teams.

You will mentor engineers, optimize build environments with Jenkins, Packer, Terraform and Ansible, and improve reliability, performance, and observability of release workflows while maintaining security and compliance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps or release engineering experience.
• Advanced Jenkins pipeline development and distributed CI/CD experience.
• Ability to read, modify, troubleshoot, and optimize build scripts and tooling.
• Strong Python and/or Groovy scripting abilities.
• Strong Linux, networking, and infrastructure fundamentals.
• Hands-on Docker and Kubernetes experience.
• Experience designing reliable build/test infrastructure supporting multiple engineers or teams.
• Experience with branching models, release workflows, source control, and versioning.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot complex distributed-system or pipeline failures.
• Strong communication and technical decision-making skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own scalable CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks supporting multiple engineering teams.
• Engineer distributed build and test infrastructure using Jenkins and modern CI/CD patterns.
• Act as a build engineer as well as a release engineer: modify build scripts and tooling to remove bottlenecks and improve repeatability.
• Own and optimize build environments and agent templates using Packer, Terraform and Ansible to define and maintain consistent build infra.
• Improve artifact and package-management workflows, including RPM lifecycle management and Artifactory.
• Improve pipeline performance, reliability, test parallelization, failure recovery, and developer experience.
• Build reusable automation and infrastructure patterns with security, scalability, observability, and resilience in mind.
• Define CI/CD requirements for complex product changes and identify risks early.
• Design and evolve branching, versioning, and release workflows across multiple repositories.
• Develop automated validation for patch, release, and code-freeze workflows, including GitHub Actions for branch state verification and release-readiness.
• Integrate automated quality gates and partner with Engineering and QA to improve test reliability and release readiness.
• Troubleshoot complex pipeline and distributed-infrastructure failures and implement durable corrective actions.
• Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility across build and release infra.
• Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and drive alignment on architecture and implementation decisions.
• Mentor engineers in CI/CD, automation, infrastructure, and release-engineering practices.
• Use AI-assisted engineering tools where appropriate for tasks like log analysis, code generation, troubleshooting, test creation, or workflow automation.

Skills

CI/CD

Jenkins

Python

Groovy

Linux

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Packer

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Tools

Jenkins

Artifactory

Packer

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub Actions

Job description

Nasuni is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer – Release Engineering in a hybrid Boston/Marlborough setting to own complex CI/CD pipelines, build and test infrastructure, and automate releases across multiple teams.

You will mentor engineers, optimize build environments with Jenkins, Packer, Terraform and Ansible, and improve reliability, performance, and observability of release workflows while maintaining security and compliance.