DevOps Engineer

Role: Release Train Engineer Location: London, UK Type: Permanent/ Full-Time :

• Own and manage the end-to-end Release Management lifecycle, ensuring predictable, high-quality, and timely releases across environments.
• Define, implement, and continuously improve Release Management processes, tools, standards, and best practices.
• Identify opportunities to optimize release processes, including reducing release cycle time, improving release success rates, and minimizing rollbacks.
• Coordinate closely with Development, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams to plan, schedule, and execute releases.
• Ensure effective release readiness, risk assessment, dependency management, and go/no-go decision support.
• Lead and mentor release and deployment engineers, providing guidance on tools, processes, and operational excellence.
• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and ensure release activities align with sprint, program, and delivery milestones.
• Drive clear and effective stakeholder communication through release status updates, release notes, dashboards, and post-release reviews.
• Identify and proactively address release risks, blockers, and cross-team dependencies.
• Support audit, compliance, governance, and change-management activities related to software releases.
• Promote continuous improvement by analyzing release metrics, identifying process gaps, and implementing corrective actions. Required Qualifications & Skills
• IT experience, with significant experience in Release Management, Environment Management, Change Management, or Release Coordination.
• Strong understanding of Release Management processes, methodologies, tools, and industry best practices.
• Hands-on experience working within Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with Development, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or providing technical guidance to release or deployment engineers.
• Strong understanding of CI/CD, deployment processes, environment management, and release automation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively engage technical teams and senior stakeholders.
• Strong organizational, coordination, problem-solving, and risk-management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple releases, priorities, dependencies, and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to operate effectively at a managerial or solution-architecture level while remaining hands-on when required. Preferred Skills
• Experience with enterprise-scale release and deployment processes.
• Familiarity with release orchestration, CI/CD, DevOps, and cloud-based delivery environments.
• Experience with release metrics, dashboards, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Familiarity with SAFe or other scaled Agile frameworks.
• Experience supporting audit, compliance, and technology governance requirements.