Senior Release Engineer

Job description

Job Description

We're looking for an exceedingly talented Senior Release Engineer to work as part of the Risk Intelligence Engineering Support team. As a Senior Release Engineer, you’ll be responsible for defining and driving the release strategy for our products, ensuring efficient, reliable, and secure delivery across environments. You will lead initiatives to optimize CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and leverage AWS services to improve scalability and operational efficiency.

Collaborating closely with Development, QA, and Operations teams, you’ll ensure that release processes align with architectural standards and business objectives, enabling faster time-to-market and enhanced customer value. This role requires participation in a shift-based to support critical release activities and production deployments outside of regular business hours. Candidates should be prepared to monitor release windows, respond to deployment issues, troubleshoot failures in CI/CD pipelines, and coordinate with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure smooth releases, service continuity, and minimal downtime.

Mentoring members of the team also forms a crucial part of the role, working alongside the team management to ensure that the team has the capabilities it needs to deliver.

Primary Responsibilities

Release Management : Own and manage the end-to-end release process for multiple applications and services.

CI/CD Pipeline Development

Design, implement, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS Code Pipeline.

Cloud Infrastructure

Deploy and manage applications on AWS, leveraging services such as EC2, ECS/EKS, S3, CloudFormation, and IAM.

Automation

Drive automation for build, deployment, and monitoring processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual intervention.

Collaboration

Work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to ensure seamless integration and delivery.

Security & Compliance

Implement best practices for security, compliance, and governance in release processes.

Monitoring & Troubleshooting

Set up monitoring tools and troubleshoot release issues promptly.

Documentation

Maintain clear documentation for release processes, pipelines, and configurations.

Key Relationships

Release Manager Development Manager Development and QA Team Preferred skills: Experience: 6+ years in Release Engineering or DevOps roles, with at least 2 years in a lead capacity.

Cloud Expertise

hands-on experience with AWS services and infrastructure automation.

CI/CD Tools

Proficiency in Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or similar tools.

Version Control

Expertise in Git and branching strategies.

Containerization

Experience with Docker and Kubernetes .

Monitoring Tools

Familiarity with tools like Datadog , Grafana , or CloudWatch .

Soft Skills

Excellent communication, leadership, and problem-solving abilities. Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation . Knowledge of blue-green deployments , canary releases , and feature toggles . Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Experience with JIRA and Confluence Education/ Certifications

A good relevant Engineering degree is desirable, but experience and the right approach to work are just as important.

Benefits

We are looking for intellectually curious people, passionate about the bigger picture of how technology industry is evolving, ready to ask difficult questions and deal with complicated scenarios! If you are creative and a problem solver, this is the place to be as will be supporting you to fast-forward your career! We enhance each employee’s potential through personal development through a wide range of learning tools both formal and informal.

LSEG is a leading global financial markets infrastructure and data provider. Our purpose is driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling customers to create sustainable growth. Our purpose is the foundation on which our culture is built. Our values of Integrity, Partnership, Excellence and Change underpin our purpose and set the standard for everything we do, every day. They go to the heart of who we are and guide our decision making and everyday actions.

Working with us means that you will be part of a dynamic organisation of 25,000 people across 65 countries. However, we will value your individuality and enable you to bring your true self to work so you can help enrich our diverse workforce. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas and are committed to sustainability across our global business. You will experience the critical role we have in helping to re-engineer the financial ecosystem to support and drive sustainable economic growth.

Together, we are aiming to achieve this growth by accelerating the just transition to net zero, enabling growth of the green economy and creating inclusive economic opportunity. LSEG offers a range of tailored benefits and support, including healthcare, retirement planning, paid volunteering days and wellbeing initiatives. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. This means that we do not discriminate on the basis of anyone’s race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law.

Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs We're proud to have been recognised as a Great Place to Work® in India ‘25 Career Stage: Senior Associate London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)

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Join us and be part of a team that values innovation, quality, and continuous improvement. If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a significant impact, we'd love to hear from you. Conforming with applicable law, we can reasonably accommodate applicants' and employees' religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. You will be part of a collaborative and creative culture where we encourage new ideas.

We are committed to sustainability across our global business and we are proud to partner with our customers to help them meet their sustainability objectives. Our charity, the LSEG Foundation provides charitable grants to community groups that help people access economic opportunities and build a secure future with financial independence. Colleagues can get involved through fundraising and volunteering. Please take a moment to read this privacy notice carefully, as it describes what personal information London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) (we) may hold about you, what it’s used for, and how it’s obtained, your rights and how to contact us as a data subject .

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