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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Release Engineer - Remote (WFH) - **Company:** Cognitive Medical Systems - **Location:** United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $90,000.0 - $115,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Performance Management, Bash Shell, CentOS, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Disaster Recovery, Monitoring of Systems, Linux Kernel, Linux System Administration, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Datadog, Data Processing, Mttr, Reliability of Systems, Information Technology, Cloudwatch, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Devsecops - **Published:** August 10, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e326c31c2e085632 ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field; 4 or more years in site reliability engineering, DevOps, or release management on production federal systems. * Hands-on experience with AWS CloudWatch (Logs, Events, Alarms), Splunk, and Splunk On-Call/VictorOps for production observability and incident management. * Experience with New Relic andDataDog for application performance monitoring. * Experience coordinating production releases, cutovers, and rollback execution on mission-critical systems. * Experience developing and maintaining operational runbooks, alerting rules, and SRE playbooks. * Familiarity with Linux environments (RHEL, CentOS, Amazon Linux 2) and Bash scripting for operational automation. * Ability to pass CMS and internal required background checks for public trust. ## Description *This position is contingent upon contract award* The Release Engineer owns the operational reliability, observability, release coordination, and continuous delivery health of the CMS Drug Data Processing System (DDPS) and Payment Reconciliation System (PRS) production environment. This individual bridges engineering and operations, ensuring production releases are executed safely, monitoring systems deliver real-time operational visibility, and automated processes maintain system resilience and availability. This is a remote position; however, Cognitive hires only in the following designated U.S. states based on contract and business requirements: VA, DC, MD, TN, FL, AZ, CO, OR, and TX. Key Responsibilities: * Coordinate and execute all production releases:validate deployment readiness, support cutovers, perform post-implementation validation, and coordinate rollback execution if needed. * Maintain real-time monitoring and observability across program systems using standard tools (e.g., AWS CloudWatch, Splunk, Splunk On-Call, New Relic, Datadog); ensure key operational metrics and system health are visible to stakeholders in real time. * Drive reliability improvements: identify recurring issues, automate remediation where feasible, reduce manual operational tasks, and improve system resilience and mean time to recovery (MTTR). * Maintain alerting and on-call runbooks; coordinate incident response and escalation paths with cybersecurity and DevSecOps leadership. * Support disaster recovery readiness: plan and execute DR tests, failover/failback exercises, and validate recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) in partnership with cloud architecture. * Manage release documentation and communications: maintain release schedules and validation reports; coordinate stakeholder communications before, during, and after releases. * Provide coverage during peak operational windows andparticipatein the on-call rotation for production releases and monitoring escalations. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [What Developers Get Wrong About Application Quality](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/233-what-developers-get-wrong-about-application-quality) - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [My journey into DevOps world - How it all started!](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/545-my-journey-into-devops-world-how-it-all-started) - [Months to minutes: Real world continuous deployment and its sustainability impact](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2027-months-to-minutes-real-world-continuous-deployment-and-its-sustainability-impact) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Mastering Remote Work: Tips for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/558-mastering-remote-work-tips-for-developers) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Best Paying Remote Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/255-best-paying-remote-jobs) - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers)