Strategic CI/CD Release Engineer

East West Bank; El Monte (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

East West Bank is seeking a skilled Release Automation Engineer to optimize our software delivery lifecycle across on-premises and cloud environments. You will automate builds, tests, and deployments, design reliable release pipelines, and collaborate with development, QA, and operations to ensure secure, scalable releases.

You will define release strategies, manage version control across repositories, and implement rollback procedures while maintaining thorough release documentation and metrics

Qualifications

• 5+ years of DevOps, software, or build and release automation experience.
• Proficient with release automation processes including CI/CD, version control, build management, and configuration management tools.
• Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps, Bitbucket, GitLab, CloudBees, Jenkins, or other leading release management tools.
• Proven ability to define release criteria, manage end-to-end release processes, and optimize release pipelines.
• Experience with container deployments (Docker, Kubernetes) and web app server/database deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage source code repositories and enforce version control best practices.
• Automate build, test, and deployment processes to enable CI/CD.
• Design and implement release pipelines for reliable, secure software rollouts.
• Coordinate release schedules and dependencies with development, QA, and operations teams.
• Monitor release processes, resolve issues during build, test, or deployment phases.
• Ensure deliverables comply with standards and meet customer expectations.
• Maintain documentation for release procedures and configurations.
• Develop and enforce policies for hotfixes and emergency releases.
• Track release metrics and identify improvement opportunities.
• Facilitate cross-team communication about release status and timelines.
• Manage environment configurations, deployment and rollback procedures for multiple environments.
• Stay updated with industry trends to refine release processes.

Skills

DevOps

CI/CD

Release automation

Version control

Docker & Kubernetes

Tools

GitHub

Azure DevOps

GitLab

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

East West Bank is seeking a skilled Release Automation Engineer to optimize our software delivery lifecycle across on-premises and cloud environments. You will automate builds, tests, and deployments, design reliable release pipelines, and collaborate with development, QA, and operations to ensure secure, scalable releases.

You will define release strategies, manage version control across repositories, and implement rollback procedures while maintaining thorough release documentation and metrics