Job Summary
We are looking for a Release Operations / DevOps Engineer to support software release and deployment activities in a large-scale production environment. The role involves monitoring CI/CD pipelines, troubleshooting release failures, performing remediation, coordinating release schedules, and ensuring smooth and reliable deployments.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor CI/CD pipelines, build progress, deployment status, and automated test results.
- Respond promptly to release alerts and investigate pipeline or deployment failures.
- Review logs, exceptions, build outputs, and test failures to identify root causes.
- Classify issues such as infrastructure, application, capacity, or intermittent/test-related failures.
- Perform standard remediation based on documented runbooks, including retrying failed deployment steps where appropriate.
- Coordinate release activities around upstream dependencies, maintenance windows, and code freezes.
- Monitor release timelines and highlight potential delays or risks early.
- Maintain and update operational runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and remediation steps.
- Ensure rollback procedures are understood and available before higher-risk releases.
- Prepare clear shift handover reports and daily/weekly operational summaries.
- Identify recurring release issues and trends for further investigation by senior technical teams.
- Escalate complex infrastructure or deployment issues with complete details, including logs, troubleshooting performed, issue classification, and actions taken.
Requirements
- 4-6 years hands-on experience or good understanding of CI/CD pipelines and software deployment/release processes.
- Comfortable working with Linux and command-line tools and reviewing system/application logs.
- Basic understanding of version control, including branches, merges, and reverts.
- Ability to interpret build, deployment, and automated test failures.
- Good troubleshooting, debugging, and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) skills.
- Experience with web infrastructure, production environments, or large-scale systems is an advantage.
- Systems Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Production Support, or Release Engineering experience would be advantageous.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to create structured operational reports and provide clear technical escalations.
Preferred Mindset
- Calm and composed when handling high-priority production or release issues.
- Able to work quickly while maintaining accuracy.
- Detail-oriented with strong ownership and follow-through.
- Clear communicator, particularly for shift handovers, incident updates, and escalations.
- Quick learner who can adapt to new internal tools, processes, and environments.