Build and Release Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Release Management Engineer with strong knowledge of release management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), CI/CD techniques, Agile, Scrum, and ITIL processes. The candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing software releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments while ensuring release quality, compliance, and minimal business disruption.

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end release activities across multiple environments.
• Define release schedules, deployment plans, release calendars, and implementation timelines.
• Coordinate with development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and business teams to ensure successful releases.
• Manage release readiness reviews, approvals, deployment execution, rollback plans, and post-release validation.
• Ensure adherence to SDLC standards, release policies, and change management procedures.
• Understand and support CI/CD pipelines to improve build, testing, deployment, and release automation.
• Work with tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.
• Facilitate Agile and Scrum practices, including sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Follow ITIL practices for Change Management, Release Management, Incident Management, and Problem Management.
• Assess release risks, dependencies, and potential impacts before production deployment.
• Track release progress, manage deployment issues, and coordinate incident resolution during release windows.
• Maintain release documentation, deployment checklists, change records, release notes, and audit evidence.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Prepare release status reports, metrics, and stakeholder communications.

We're hiring a DevOps Engineer for a technology company in Pune (on-site).

What you'll do: build and run CI/CD pipelines; containerise apps with Docker and run them on Kubernetes; manage deployments and infrastructure; automate operations; monitor systems and fix production issues.

Must have: 2+ years of hands-on DevOps experience; strong Docker and Kubernetes; CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions or GitLab CI); Linux, Git, shell scripting.

Good to have: AWS, Azure or GCP; Terraform or Ansible; experience in finance or banking projects.

Selection: communication round, technical round, AI interview, coding round.

Company Overview:

Planview is hiring a DevOps Engineer in Bengaluru, India to support Planview SaaS applications across the product line. You will work in a global, collaborative team — owning CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automation to keep deployments fast and systems reliable.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins for reliable, fast delivery.
• Manage containerized workloads on Docker and ECS — task definitions, services, and clusters.
• Provision and manage AWS infrastructure using Terraform (CloudFormation a plus).
• Automate configuration and deployment tasks using Python (Ansible a plus).
• Set up and maintain monitoring and alerting via New Relic (CloudWatch, Datadog, or Prometheus/Grafana a plus).
• Write Shell and Python scripts to automate operations and reduce manual work.
• Manage Git workflows — branching, merge strategies, and pull request reviews.
• Administer and support MSSQL databases underpinning the product line — backups, restores, and basic performance troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot deployment, performance, and infrastructure issues with development teams.
• Participate in on-call rotations and drive incident response.
• Continuously improve infrastructure resilience and deployment speed.
• Apply AI-assisted engineering tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) to speed up IaC authoring, pipeline debugging, and day-to-day scripting.

Qualifications

Must-Have Skills

• Experience: 4–6 years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• OS: Windows administration (systemd, package management, log analysis).
• Cloud: AWS (Active Directory, ECS, EC2, CloudFront, S3, VPC, IAM, RDS, Lambda basics).
• Source Control: Git — branching, merge/rebase, PR reviews.
• CI/CD (Jenkins): Pipeline creation and basic Groovy scripting.
• Containerization (Docker + ECS): Task definitions, services, and clusters.
• IaC: Terraform.
• Monitoring: New Relic.
• Scripting: Bash and Python scripting for automation.
• Networking Basics: DNS, load balancers, security groups, VPNs.
• Logging: ELK stack / CloudWatch Logs.
• Database: MSSQL administration — backups, restores, basic performance troubleshooting.
• Infrastructure Automation: Hands-on experience automating infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and deployment end-to-end.
• AI-Assisted Engineering: Comfortable working with AI coding/DevOps assistants (e.g., GitHub Copilot, Claude Code) for IaC generation, scripting, and troubleshooting — verified via a mandatory AI proficiency assessment during interviews.

Nice-to-Have Skills

•     Configuration Management: Ansible.

•     Additional IaC: CloudFormation.

•     Architecture: Knowledge of microservices architecture.

•     Cloudflare: DNS, CDN, WAF.

•     Artifact Repositories: Nexus, JFrog Artifactory, ECR.

•     Other CI/CD Tools: GitHub Actions.

•     AWS cost optimization / FinOps awareness.

•     Datadog, CloudWatch, or Prometheus/Grafana.

•     AIOps: Exposure to AI-driven anomaly detection, root-cause analysis, or incident triage (e.g., Dynatrace Davis AI, Datadog Bits AI, Harness AIDA).

•     Database Basics: RDS backups, restores, performance tuning.