Senior Release Engineer: CI/CD & Quality Gates Leader

General Dynamics Mission Systems; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

General Dynamics Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Release Engineer to design and implement release processes across development, staging, and production. The role emphasizes versioning, gates, and deployment promotion, with a focus on repeatable, observable CI/CD workflows and automated testing.

Collaboration with software and AI engineers is essential to embed testing into pipelines and to maintain clear visibility into deployments and rollback procedures, ensuring confident, rapid

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience or Master's with 6+ years.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, release engineering practices, and automated testing.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the release process for software products across development, staging, and production environments.
• Establish versioning conventions, release gates, approval paths, and deployment promotion practices.
• Develop and improve CI/CD workflows that make releases repeatable, observable, and low-risk.
• Partner with software and AI engineers to embed automated testing into pipelines and drive adoption of practical quality gates.
• Maintain clear visibility into deployed versions, changes, and validations.
• Build and validate release and rollback procedures so teams can deploy confidently and recover quickly.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Release engineering

Automated testing

Education

Bachelor's degree + 8 years

Master's degree + 6 years

Job description

General Dynamics Mission Systems is seeking a Senior Release Engineer to design and implement release processes across development, staging, and production. The role emphasizes versioning, gates, and deployment promotion, with a focus on repeatable, observable CI/CD workflows and automated testing.

Collaboration with software and AI engineers is essential to embed testing into pipelines and to maintain clear visibility into deployments and rollback procedures, ensuring confident, rapid