Senior Release Engineer

CLEAResult; United States; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CLEAResult is seeking a Senior Release Engineer to own the end-to-end release lifecycle across the product portfolio. You will connect engineering, QA, and operations, plan releases, and harden CI/CD pipelines to ensure predictable, low-risk deployments at scale.

You will work with .NET, React, and PHP applications delivered via Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, leveraging Selenium and Playwright for automated quality coverage and strong auditability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in release management, DevOps, or build/release engineering, with senior/lead experience.
• Hands-on with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts) and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Knowledge of branching and versioning strategies across multiple languages.
• Experience integrating automated testing (Selenium, Playwright) into release pipelines.
• Familiarity with .NET, React, PHP stacks and deployment patterns.
• Strong cross-functional communication and incident coordination.
• Comfort with audit trails, release notes, and compliance practices.

Responsibilities

• Own release planning and scheduling across teams and services.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Manage branching, versioning, and release strategies across codebases.
• Enforce quality gates and integrate automated tests into pipelines.
• Coordinate deployments across environments and manage rollback procedures.
• Lead release readiness reviews and surface risks for sign-offs.
• Maintain release notes, change logs, and audit trails for compliance.
• Collaborate with development, QA, security, and infra teams to improve cycle time.
• Report on release metrics and drive process improvements.
• Champion repeatable, self-service deployments.

Skills

Release management

CI/CD

Leadership

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Automation testing

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Selenium

Playwright

Job description

We're looking for a Senior Release Engineer to own the end-to-end release lifecycle across our product portfolio.

You'll be the connective tissue between engineering, QA, and operations- planning releases, hardening our CI/CD pipelines, enforcing quality gates, and making sure every deployment is predictable, traceable, and low-risk.

Our applications span .NET, React, and PHP built and shipped through Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions, with automated quality coverage from Selenium and Playwright. You'll bring structure and reliability to how that all comes together at scale.

We are an AI-empowered workplace and our teams use AI tooling to accelerate everyday engineering work; you will be expected to lean into automation and AI to optimize releases and QA automation.

What you'll do

• Own release planning and coordination across multiple teams and services—defining release schedules, cut-off dates, freeze windows, and go/no-go criteria.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps Pipelines and GitHub Actions, including build, test, artifact, and deployment stages.
• Manage branching, versioning, and release strategies (e.g., trunk-based, release branches, semantic versioning) across PHP, .NET, and React codebases.
• Define and enforce quality gates, integrating Selenium and Playwright automated test suites into pipelines so failures block promotion.
• Coordinate deployments across environments (dev, staging, production) and own rollback and recovery procedures when releases go sideways.
• Drive release readiness reviews—tracking open work items in Azure DevOps Boards, surfacing risks, and ensuring sign-offs are in place.
• Maintain clear release notes, change logs, and a complete audit trail for compliance and post-mortem purposes.
• Partner with development, QA, security, and infrastructure teams to remove bottlenecks and continuously improve cycle time and deployment frequency.
• Establish and report on release metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR) and use them to drive process improvements.
• Champion release automation and a culture of repeatable, self-service deployments.

What we're looking for

• 5+ years in release management, DevOps, or build/release engineering, with at least 2+ in a senior or lead capacity.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure DevOps (Pipelines, Repos, Boards, Artifacts) and GitHub Actions for CI/CD.
• Strong understanding of branching and versioning strategies and how to apply them across multiple languages and runtimes.
• Experience integrating automated testing—Selenium and Playwright—into release pipelines as enforced quality gates.
• Working familiarity with the application stacks you'll be shipping: .NET, React, PHP.
• Solid grasp of deployment patterns (blue/green, canary, rolling) and rollback strategies.
• Excellent cross-functional communication—comfortable running go/no-go calls and coordinating under pressure during a release or incident.

Nice to have

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with Azure/AWS cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep).
• Exposure to artifact/package management (NuGet, npm, Composer).
• Experience in a regulated or compliance-driven environment (SOC 2, ISO, etc.).