Senior Release Engineer 

Looking for an innovative, high-growth company in one of the hottest segments of the security market?  Look no further than Veracode!  

Veracode is recognized as a premier provider of SaaS-based application security solutions, transforming the way companies secure applications in today’s software driven world. We provide our customers with a solid foundation on which to build security into their modern agile development processes. Learn more about us at www.veracode.com!  

We are seeking a skilled Senior Release Engineer to join our team and play a role in the evolution of the team to a full GitOps model.  The ideal candidate will have a strong background in Release Engineering with a focus on deploying cloud services, and a Gitlab DevOps.  As a Senior Release Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, security, and scalability of our software security product by using your expertise in DevOps practices and tooling. You will work closely with our engineering, product, quality, and performance teams to develop and implement best practices for testing, deploying and validating applications and microservices. 

Key Aspects of Role 

• Utilize GitLab DevOps and AWS to deploy application and microservice code to stage and production
• Partner with engineering, performance, QA, DevOps and SRE to ensure code releases are performed with proper qualification
• Document and train engineering teams on software release best practices.  
• Contribute to post release retrospectives as required.
• Communicate effectively with project stakeholders and management.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues with release pipelines.  
• Ensure that our release processes meet GRC requirements.  

Required Skills/Experience: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Engineering, or related/relevant field or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years working in a Release, QA, DevOps, Cloud Engineering or similar role.
• Experience with AWS technologies.  
• Proficiency with CI/CD pipelines and repository management tools (e.g., GitLab, Jenkins, GitHub).
• Strong programming skills for automation (Python, BASH, Go, or similar languages).
• Solid understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) and GitOps methodologies.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively across different teams.
• Ability to work in an Agile environment. 

Desired Experience: 

• Understanding of database management and technologies, including Oracle RDS, mySQL Aurora, and PostgreSQL Aurora.
• Understanding of test tooling and frameworks just as J Unit, SonarQube, BlazeMeter
• Understanding of Observability platforms such as DataDog. Prometheus and Grafana.  

Compensation Transparency 

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Job Grade: Senior 

Employment opportunities are available to all applicants without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.