Senior Release Engineer (CI/CD)

Kaseware • Denver, CO

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

Kaseware is seeking a Senior Release Engineer to join their team. This role focuses on designing, evolving, and operating the company's continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform, primarily built on GitHub Actions. The engineer will be responsible for setting patterns, standards, and reusable components for the engineering organization, integrating security and compliance tooling, and collaborating with various teams to ensure a fast, reliable, and trustworthy code delivery process from commit to production. The company provides case management and investigations software trusted by law enforcement, government, and corporate security teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Cloud Infrastructure roles, with significant time spent on CI/CD architecture and automation
• Demonstrated ability to design CI/CD pipelines at the architecture level, reusable patterns, governance, and multi-team standards
• Deep, hands-on GitHub Actions experience: reusable workflows, composite actions, matrix builds, self-hosted runners, OIDC-based cloud authentication, secrets management, and pipeline optimization at scale
• Java build tooling expertise – Maven and Gradle – including multi-module projects, dependency management, and build optimization
• Production experience with ArgoCD and GitOps deployment patterns
• Strong experience integrating security and compliance tooling such as SCA, SAST and DAST tooling into pipelines including gating policies and triage workflows
• Cloud platform experience, especially Microsoft Azure (preferred); experience with AWS or GCP is also valuable
• Comprehensive understanding of Git, branching strategies, and the Git CLI; experience reviewing and standardizing repository workflows across teams
• Experience supporting compliance-driven environments (FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar), particularly with respect to auditability of build and release processes is strongly preferred
• English language proficiency
• Willingness to participate in on-call and incident response rotations supporting the build and delivery platform
• Must be able to pass a full CJIS compliant fingerprint based background check
• U.S. Citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply.

Nice To Haves

• Fully remote within the United States will be considered for exceptional candidates.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and evolve Kaseware’s CI/CD architecture, primarily on GitHub Actions across all delivery paths
• Author, maintain, and review GitHub Actions workflows, reusable workflows, composite actions, and self-hosted runner infrastructure
• Define and enforce build and release standards across the engineering organization
• Build and maintain Java build pipelines using Maven and Gradle; manage internal artifact distribution
• Integrate security and compliance tooling end-to-end into the pipeline and operationalize their findings through gating, triage, and reporting
• Implement and operate GitOps deployment patterns with ArgoCD across target environments
• Support the development and maintenance of Terraform code for the infrastructure that backs the build and delivery system (runners, registries, supporting services)
• Support FedRAMP High continuous monitoring and audit evidence requirements as they relate to the pipeline – build attestations, signed artifacts, change traceability, and access controls
• Partner with engineering, security, and platform teams to remove friction in the developer inner-loop while raising the security and compliance bar
• Participate in incident response and on-call rotations for the build and delivery platform
• Mentor engineers on CI/CD patterns and contribute new ideas, tools, and practices to the Kaseware technical stack

Benefits

• Excellent health, dental, and vision insurance with generous company contribution
• Flex Spending Accounts
• Unlimited paid vacation
• 12 paid company holidays
• Paid Sick Time
• Paid Parental Leave
• 401k with company matching
• EcoPass provided for Colorado-based employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior