Sr. Release Engineers
About The Position
Sun Life Financial (U.S.) Services Company, Inc. is hiring Sr. Release Engineers to lead the end-to-end governance, planning, coordination, and execution of releases across multiple software teams, platforms, and environments. The role ensures software releases align with business priorities, operational and technical readiness requirements, risk tolerance, and organizational governance standards. The position facilitates collaboration among development, QA, operations, business stakeholders, and governance bodies. It supports management of dependencies, risks, approvals, testing, documentation, and deployment schedules, and facilitates production readiness, release approvals, environment stability, and go/no-go decisions. The role also leads stakeholder communications, process improvement, release performance monitoring, automation opportunities, and the ongoing maturity of technical release and software environment management practices. The engineer mentors and cross-trains other IT team members and may take on other projects affecting software release management. The position is permitted to be performed by 100% telecommuting from anywhere in the United States. The annual salary range is $187,000 to $195,000 for full-time employment, with eligibility for a discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and business performance.
Requirements
- Master’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related engineering field, plus 3 years of experience in a related occupation; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree, or foreign equivalent, in one of those fields plus 5 years of progressive experience in a related occupation.
- PowerShell scripting experience.
- Experience with code merging and conflict resolution.
- Experience in release management, DevOps, or environment management roles within enterprise environments.
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional releases, software development lifecycle (SDLC), release governance, and change management frameworks within regulated or highly governed environments.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Server, release management processes, Salesforce release processes, ANT Migration Tool, and Agile development framework.
Responsibilities
- Lead software release delivery in alignment with business priorities, operational and technical readiness requirements, risk tolerance, and organizational governance standards.
- Facilitate collaboration across development, QA, operations, business stakeholders, and governance bodies.
- Support management of dependencies, risks, approvals, testing, documentation, and deployment schedules.
- Facilitate production readiness, release approvals, environment stability, and go/no-go decision-making for successful, compliant, low-risk software deployments.
- Lead stakeholder communication, continuous process improvement, release performance monitoring, automation opportunities, and the development of technical release management and software environment management practices.
- Mentor and cross-train IT team members on the end-to-end release management lifecycle.
- Work on other projects impacting software release management as assigned.
Benefits
- Discretionary annual incentive award based on individual and business performance.
- Generous vacation and sick time.
- Paid family, parental, and adoption leave.
- Medical coverage.
- Company-paid life and AD&D insurance.
- Disability programs.
- Partially paid sabbatical program.
- 401(k) employer match.
- Stock purchase options.
- Employer-funded retirement account.
- Flexible, inclusive, and collaborative work environment supporting career growth.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
