Release & Deployment Engineer

· Plan, schedule, and coordinate application releases across environments.

· Manage deployment, validation, rollback, and production readiness activities.

· Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or similar tools.

· Coordinate with Development, QA, Infrastructure, Security, and Business teams.

· Support change management, CAB approvals, release documentation, and governance.

· Perform production validation, smoke testing, monitoring, and incident triage.

· Automate deployment and operational tasks using scripting.

· Maintain release calendars, runbooks, deployment guides, and knowledge articles.

· Support troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

· Ensure compliance with operational procedures, security, audit, and governance standards.

· 8+ years in Release Management / DevOps / Deployment Engineering.

· Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Git, GitHub/GitLab.

· CI/CD pipeline implementation and maintenance.

· ITIL & Change Management experience.

· Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Platform cloud experience.

· PowerShell, Python, Bash, or Shell scripting.

· Production deployment, troubleshooting, and incident management.

· Strong communication and stakeholder management.