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# Release Train Engineer

- **Company:** Peraton Inc
- **Location:** United States (Remote available)
- **Salary:** $112,000.0 - $179,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Confluence, JIRA, PRINCE2, Process Driven Development, Scrum Methodology, Systems Development Life Cycle, Scaled Agile Framework, Gitlab, SC Clearance, Atlassian Tools, Artifactory
- **Published:** July 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9006917/release-train-engineer

## About the Role

What you'll need:

 * Education: 8 years with BS/BA, 6 years with MS/MA, 3 years with PhD or 12 years of experience in lieu of a degree
 * Clearance: active Secret Clearance
 * Familiarity with Agile Tools knowledge (JIRA/Confluence/GitLab/Artifactory)
 * Strong leadership skills and ability to foster collaborative relationships with customers, teaming partners and cross-functional teams
 * Ability to resolve customer issues very quickly and accurately
 * Knowledge of IT standards, methodologies, system development life cycle and project management frameworks
 * Strong understanding of agile methodologies (SAFe, Kanban, Scrum)

## Description

Peraton is looking to hire a SAFe Release Train Engineer to support is DCSA NBIS program. This role will be a remote position with occasional travel to the Washington DC Metro area to support customer meetings and SAFe planning events.

What you'll do:

 * Fulfill the role of Release Train Engineer on an Agile Release Train as part of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) development methodology.
 * Organize teams of teams around a common cadence and ensure execution of the program increment and sprint goals, while maintaining overall process governance.
 * Facilitate overall Agile Release Train rhythms to include Scrum of Scrums (SoS), Product Management Sync, Sprint Reviews and Sprint Demos.
 * Coordinate with Scrum Masters of individual teams on team rhythms to ensure effective communication and coordination is taking place, both within the Agile Release Train and externally to other Release Train Engineers.
 * Foster effective communication with Peraton Program Leadership.
 * Provide overall coaching to the Agile Release Train to continuously improve agile processes and promote better value delivery.
 * Assume responsible for the delivery of committed features on schedule.
 * Collaborate with Government Product Management to identify overall priorities, time-line commitments, and release approach.
 * Coordinate across the series of Government functional leadership roles to ensure all dependencies and risks are appropriately identified and managed.


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