Sr.engineer - IT Release Management

Release Engineer

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Summary of the role:

We are looking for an experienced Release Engineer who loves retail and has a passion for delivering best-in-class experiences for consumers alongside a passion for empowering engineering teams to deliver value to their customers rapidly and reliably.

About the role:

As a Release Engineer, you'll be the conductor orchestrating the entire release management lifecycle for our e-commerce and retail store software. Your mission is to ensure smooth, timely, and high-quality releases across the enterprise. You'll be at the helm, coordinating application updates, security improvements, hardware upgrades, and more. Your role is pivotal in collaborating with developers, testers, and IT management to enhance our software engineering processes and practices, all while embodying the spirit of innovation and creativity that defines our denim lifestyle.

Release Planning and Coordination: You'll be the go-to person for coordinating release content and efforts across multiple teams and systems, ensuring everything aligns with the enterprise-wide deliveries of software to our internal and external customers.

Release Management: You'll manage risks, resolve issues, and keep a close eye on progress to ensure releases are on time, within budget, and meet or exceed expectations. You'll research and implement industry-leading software release tools and systems. In growing our capabilities to deliver better software faster, you'll make a direct impact on our business capacity to thrill our fans.

Continuous Improvement: You'll work with our teams to mature the system towards Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery, develop scripts and automation tools, and ensure seamless integration and deployment of software releases. As you lead improvement in our release processes, you'll make direct impacts on our entire technology organization's capability to deliver value at scale.

Collaboration and Teamwork: You'll be a visible and valuable member of the teams delivering software to our customers. Actively participate in CAB meetings, release planning meetings, maintain a release repository, and manage key information like build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists. Mentor development squads to support squad-led releases to increase the flow of ideas to our customers.

Career and Team Development: You'll stay ahead of the curve by researching and implementing industry-leading release and configuration management methodologies, tools and technologies, and apply them to our current needs. You'll coach and enable our development squads and business teams to release their software and experiments to discover better ways to serve our internal and external customers.

About you:

• Experienced Release Engineer with 2+ years' experience in project management or release management

• Demonstrated experience with ServiceNow, Airtable, and SharePoint with a curiosity to grow your skills and capabilities

• Capability to use GenAI and Agentic AI to understand and improve on our capabilities

• Experience with continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools.

• Experience with ITIL or other IT service management frameworks.

• Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Advanced knowledge of the software development lifecycle in Agile, DevOps, and Lean Software environments

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills.

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must.

Benefits We put a lot of thought into our programs to provide you with a benefits package that matters. Whether it is for medical care, taking time off, improving your health or planning for retirement, we've got you covered. Here's a small snapshot:

• Complimentary preventive health check-up for you & your spouse

• OPD coverage

• Best in class leave plan including paternity & family care leaves

• Counselling sessions to prioritize mental well-being

• Exclusive discount vouchers on Levi's products

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to empowering individuals from all walks of life to achieve their professional goals with us, regardless of race, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, disability, sexual orientation, age, national origin, citizenship status, or genetic information. We actively seek and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including those with disabilities, and offer accommodations throughout the selection process upon request. To ensure that our products and culture continue to incorporate everyone's perspectives and experience, we never discriminate based on race, religion, national origin, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or marital, veteran, or disability status.

Location Bengaluru, India

Full Time/Part Time Full time