Sr. Release Engineers
About The Position
Sun Life U.S. is hiring Sr. Release Engineers for Sun Life Financial [U.S.] Services Company, Inc. The role leads end-to-end governance, planning, coordination, and execution of software releases across multiple teams, platforms, and environments. It ensures releases align with business priorities, operational and technical readiness requirements, risk tolerance, and organizational governance standards. The position works with development, QA, operations, business stakeholders, and governance bodies to manage dependencies, risks, approvals, testing, documentation, and deployment schedules. It also supports production readiness, environment stability, release approvals, and go/no-go decisions to enable successful, compliant, low-risk deployments. The role leads stakeholder communications, process improvement, release performance monitoring, automation opportunities, and the maturity of technical release and software environment management practices. It also mentors and cross-trains IT team members on the release management lifecycle and handles other assigned projects affecting software release management. The position is 100% telecommuting from anywhere in the United States. The position requires either a master's degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer/Electronics Engineering, Industrial Engineering, or a closely related engineering field, plus three years of experience in a related occupation; or a bachelor's degree (or foreign equivalent) in one of those fields plus five years of progressive experience in a related occupation. Required experience includes PowerShell scripting; code merging and conflict resolution; enterprise release management, DevOps, or environment management; managing complex cross-functional releases and SDLC, release governance, and change management frameworks in regulated or highly governed environments; and working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Server, release management processes, Salesforce release processes, ANT Migration Tool, and Agile development framework.
Requirements
- Master's degree (foreign equivalent accepted) 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 (foreign equivalent accepted) in one of those fields plus 5 years of progressive experience in a related occupation.
- PowerShell scripting experience.
- Experience with code merge and conflict resolution.
- Experience in release management, DevOps, or environment management roles within enterprise environments.
- Experience managing complex, cross-functional releases, SDLC, release governance, and change management frameworks within regulated or highly governed environments.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Team Foundation Server, release management process, Salesforce release process, ANT Migration Tool, and Agile development framework.
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end software release planning, governance, coordination, and execution across multiple teams, platforms, and environments.
- Ensure releases align with business priorities, readiness requirements, risk tolerance, and organizational governance standards.
- Facilitate collaboration among development, QA, operations, business stakeholders, and governance bodies.
- Support management of release dependencies, risks, approvals, testing, documentation, and deployment schedules.
- Facilitate production readiness, release approvals, environment stability, and go/no-go decisions.
- Lead stakeholder communication, continuous process improvement, release performance monitoring, automation opportunities, and maturation of release and software environment management practices.
- Mentor and cross-train IT team members on the end-to-end release management lifecycle.
- Perform other projects affecting 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
