Devops Release Engineer

Job Description

Role Overview: DevOps Release Manager

👉 Locations: Chennai / Bangalore
👉 Experience: 7+ years
👉 Type: Senior / Lead-level role

This role focuses on managing software releases, CI/CD pipelines, and production deployments in large-scale systems.

🧠 What You’re Expected to Know
⚙️ CI/CD & Version Control
Jenkins
GitHub / Bitbucket
Enterprise Git workflows

👉 You should already be building and managing pipelines, not just using them.

☁️ Infrastructure & DevOps Tools
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes (via Helm, Spinnaker)

👉 This means:

Deploying apps to cloud
Managing containers at scale
Handling rollbacks & outages
🚀 Deployment & Release Tools
Spinnaker
Helm

👉 You’ll control production releases across environments.

🔐 Security & Quality
SonarQube
Fortify
DAST (Dynamic security testing)
Akamai WAF

👉 You’re responsible for secure releases, not just deployments.

📊 Testing & Performance
LambdaTest
Neoload
WDIO (WebdriverIO)

👉 Ensures applications work at scale before release.

💼 What You’ll Actually Do
Manage end-to-end release lifecycle
Build and optimize CI/CD pipelines
Coordinate with dev, QA, and ops teams
Handle production deployments & rollbacks
Ensure security + performance compliance
Monitor releases and fix failures quickly
⚠️ Reality Check (Important)

This role expects:

7+ years real experience
Hands-on work with cloud + DevOps stack
Leadership or ownership experience

👉 If you are:

Fresher ❌
1–3 years experience ❌

→ This job is not suitable right now

🎯 When Should You Target This Role?

You can aim for this after:

DevOps Engineer (2–4 yrs)
Senior DevOps Engineer (4–6 yrs)
Then → Release Manager (7+ yrs)
💡 My Honest Advice

Don’t jump to this level directly.

If you’re early in career:
👉 Start with:

Junior DevOps Engineer
Cloud Engineer
Build CI/CD + Docker + AWS skills