Senior Manager - Release Engineering

CVS Health•Woonsocket, RI

4d•$130,295 - $260,590

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. CVS Health is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness. This role oversees the continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, building infrastructure, and deployment processes. This leader builds the technical and cultural ecosystem that enables engineers to deliver high-quality, secure, and reliable software quickly and efficiently. The ideal candidate will drive architectural alignment, risk mitigation, and process optimization championing automation and governance across the IT organization.

Requirements

7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience, with people management skills in high-growth or high-availability environments
3+ years of deep hands-on background in CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness), cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
3+ years of experience optimizing complex build systems and branching/merging strategies
3+ years of experience bridging the gap between engineering depth and business impact
3+ years of experience focused on automation and customer service excellence
Bachelor’s degree from accredited university or equivalent work experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

Nice To Haves

Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement, ability to lead cross-functional teams, including offshore/onshore vendor teams
Experience implementing and improving SRE metrics in distributed environments

Responsibilities

Hire, mentor, and grow a team of release engineers.
Build a culture of operational excellence, psychological safety, and continuous learning.
Design, scale, and maintain end-to-end build infrastructure and deployment automation—from code commit to production.
Define deployment standards, gating criteria, version control, and compliance/audit checkpoints without bottlenecking developer velocity.
Drive improvements in key DevOps metrics such as Deployment Frequency, Lead Time, Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and Change Failure Rate.
Partner with Product, Security, Compliance, and Platform teams to align release processes with business objectives and infrastructure needs.
Oversee change control processes, complex multi-team dependency mapping, and deployment safety measures (e.g., canary releases, feature flags, and rollbacks).
Drive continuous improvement initiatives and defect remediation in partnership with IT and business stakeholders.