Senior Development Release Engineer
About The Position
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary The Senior Development Release Engineer is responsible for planning, coordinating, governing, and executing software releases across multiple applications and teams. This role ensures releases are delivered on time, meet quality standards, comply with organizational processes, and minimize business disruption. The Release Manager serves as the central point of coordination between Product, Engineering, QA, Infrastructure, DevOps, Operations, and Business stakeholders.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Program Management, DevOps, or Software Delivery.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, DevOps, CI/CD, Change Management, and ITIL practices.
- Experience managing enterprise-level software releases across multiple teams.
- Strong communication, stakeholder management, and risk management skills.
- Experience with Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, GitHub, CI/CD platforms, and release automation tools.
Nice To Haves
- ITIL Certification.
- PMP, SAFe, Scrum Master, or Agile certification.
- Experience leading complex enterprise application releases.
- Experience with cloud platforms and automated deployment pipelines.
Responsibilities
- Define release scope, schedules, and release calendars.
- Coordinate dependencies across teams and applications.
- Facilitate release planning and readiness reviews.
- Ensure compliance with release management standards and governance processes.
- Manage change approvals and release documentation.
- Coordinate build, packaging, and deployment activities.
- Conduct Go/No-Go meetings and facilitate deployment execution.
- Validate deployment readiness, rollback plans, and production support coverage.
- Monitor production deployments and escalate issues as needed.
- Communicate release schedules, risks, status, and outcomes.
- Provide executive updates before, during, and after deployments.
- Coordinate communications with business and technical stakeholders.
- Verify QA and UAT signoffs.
- Ensure release readiness criteria are met.
- Identify, track, and mitigate release risks and issues.
- Coordinate incident management and rollback activities when required.
- Track release KPIs and deployment success metrics.
- Conduct post implementation reviews and lessons learned sessions.
- Identify opportunities for release automation and process improvements.
- Drive continuous improvements to increase release predictability and quality.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision coverage
- paid time off
- retirement savings options
- wellness programs
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
