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Release Engineer

Contract: Cincinnati, Ohio, US

Salary Range: 60.00 - 67.00 | Per Hour

Job Code: 369801

End Date: 2026-07-02
Days Left: 7 days, 3 hours left

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Day-to-Day Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end release execution across QA, staging, and production environments for NGPOS services
• Own release planning, readiness reviews, sequencing, and go/no-go decision-making processes
• Coordinate closely with engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and offshore teams to ensure deployment alignment and release quality
• Manage CI/CD-driven deployment pipelines and support build validation, code integration, and release stability
• Identify and resolve deployment failures, integration conflicts, and version inconsistencies across environments
• Ensure API versioning integrity, deployment traceability, rollback readiness, and release compliance standards
• Monitor deployment health, release outcomes, and environment stability through dashboards, alerting, and observability tooling
• Drive release process improvement, automation, and CI/CD quality gates to improve repeatability and reduce production risk
• Coordinate hotfixes, rollback strategies, and patch releases when required
• Mentor release/deployment engineers and establish repeatable best practices across onshore/offshore delivery teams
• Utilize AI-assisted engineering tools to support release readiness, dependency analysis, risk identification, reporting, and release governance improvements

Must Haves

• 8+ years of experience in Release Engineering, Deployment Engineering, DevOps, or Software Engineering environments
• Strong experience leading complex releases across QA, staging, and production environments
• Experience supporting Java/Spring Boot applications in CI/CD-driven ecosystems
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, Git, Bitbucket, or similar) and release coordination
• Solid understanding of REST APIs, API versioning, distributed systems, and integration/release dependencies
• Experience troubleshooting deployment failures, release integrity issues, rollback planning, and environment inconsistencies
• Strong stakeholder communication skills with experience coordinating across engineering, QA, DevOps, and offshore teams
• Exposure to scripting/automation (Go preferred, not required)

Plusses

• Experience within retail, POS, or enterprise transaction systems
• Experience with Kafka, RabbitMQ, or event-driven architectures
• Experience with database deployment strategies (PostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB)
• Exposure to AI-assisted engineering or agentic tooling for release management, automation, or risk analysis
• Experience building deployment dashboards, release observability, or alerting frameworks
• Knowledge of edge computing concepts or IoT-related integrations (MQTT)
• Experience implementing automated quality gates, release governance, or policy-based deployment controls
• Multi-cloud or hybrid cloud deployment experience

Pay Range - 60$/hr. - 67$/hr.

The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, life insurance, long-term disability insurance, short-term disability insurance, paid parking/public transportation, paid time off, paid sick and safe time, hours of paid vacation time, weeks of paid parental leave, and paid holidays annually - as applicable.

Job Requirement

• POS

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• Aarti Bodke
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