Senior Release & Reliability Engineer

Solomon Page; Greenwich (CT); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Solomon Page is seeking a Senior Release & Reliability Engineer to deliver and automate releases for backend services and web apps across North America, Europe and Asia. You will own disaster recovery for the estate, including standby regions, backups, and rehearsed failover, while mentoring engineers on best practices.

You’ll work with product managers, compliance, and infrastructure to ensure readiness, telemetry-driven validation, and rolled-out change controls.

Qualifications

• 2+ years in release engineering or DevOps with production releases.
• Disaster recovery and multi-region deployments experience.
• Strong change control with tested rollback plans.
• Proficient Python and shell scripting.
• Deep Linux knowledge (Red Hat preferred).
• Observability tooling experience is a plus.
• Excellent cross-team communication and time-zone coordination.

Responsibilities

• Deliver releases and deployments for backend services and web apps across regions.
• Run the release lifecycle with approvals, rollback paths, verification, and change records.
• Execute rollbacks under time pressure and verify the rolled-back state.
• Set up disaster recovery: standby regions, replication, backups, failover and failback.
• Run DR drills and regional failover tests and keep recovery procedures current.
• Mentor engineers on release practice and maintain procedures across teams.

Skills

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

CI/CD

Observability

ELK Stack

IaC

Git

Communication

GitHub/GitLab

Education

BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant field

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

TeamCity

Git

Maven

Gradle

Nexus

Artifactory

NPM

Job description

Our Client is looking for a Senior Release & Reliability Engineer to deliver and automate the release and deployment of our backend services: approval, deploy, verification and rollback. More than sixty backend services and web applications are released and restarted across production regions in North America, Europe and Asia, behind our Clients web portal, mobile apps and desktop trading platform. The role also owns disaster recovery for that estate: standby regions that stay current, backups that restore and failover that has been rehearsed. You will be part of the release and deployment team, two engineers today, working with every development team in the group as well as product managers, compliance and the infrastructure team.

• Salary range: $180K - $240K

Responsibilities

• Deliver releases and deployments for backend services and web applications, from test through production, to whole regions or single hosts
• Run the release request lifecycle with the requesting developer: approvals, rollback path, verification, change records
• Execute rollbacks under time pressure, and verify the rolled-back state
• Set up disaster recovery: standby regions, replication, backup and restore, failover and failback
• Run DR drills and regional failover tests, and keep recovery procedures proven
• Verify releases with telemetry rather than by eye: dashboards, log queries, error and latency checks, smoke tests
• Onboard new services into the release system, including clustered multi-instance topologies
• Automate manual release work: pipelines, deployment and configuration templates, validation, verification harnesses, restart jobs
• Bring infrastructure, application and release pipelines under one versioned, testable template language, and retire per-project scripts
• Help teams meet readiness standards before new traffic reaches production: monitoring coverage, load-test evidence, rate limiting, staggered restarts
• Own build and release infrastructure and access: build jobs, artifact promotion and versioning, release permissions
• Provide L2 and L3 support for the release path: off-hours windows, weekend coverage, emergency releases, incidents
• Mentor engineers on release practice, and keep release and deployment procedures current

Requirements and skills

• 2+ years in release engineering, configuration management, DevOps, SRE or platform engineering, including production releases of server-side services
• Rigor about change control: every release documented and reconstructable afterwards, never shipped without a tested rollback path
• Disaster recovery: standby environments, replication, backup and restore, and failover you have actually run
• Strong Python and shell, enough to own and extend release tooling and automate operations against tool APIs
• Deep Linux experience, ideally Red Hat, including diagnosing a failing service on an unfamiliar host
• CI/CD and artifact management: Jenkins, TeamCity or GitLab CI, Git, Maven, Gradle or npm, Nexus or Artifactory
• Configuration as code: YAML models, environment, region and host overrides, everything in version control
• Observability and log analysis: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana, Grafana or equivalent, plus scripting and regular expressions for raw logs
• Clear written communication, and comfort working across teams in several countries and time zones
• BSc/BA in Computer Science, Engineering or a relevant field

Good to have

• 5+ years of the above, in banking, brokerage or another regulated production environment
• Multi-region disaster recovery at scale, including regional failover of stateful services
• Reusable CI/CD and deployment pipeline templates across a large application estate
• Automating build and release pipelines for customer facing apps (e.g. iOS, Android, Desktop): code signing, beta distribution and store submission
• Cloud migration of on-premises release and deployment processes, infrastructure as code, Ansible, containers or orchestration
• Internal developer platforms and self-service release tooling
• Code quality gates such as SonarQube, job scheduling and change tracking such as ServiceNow or Jira
• Exposure to market data, order routing or brokerage systems