Release Engineer II (REMOTE)

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OVERVIEW:

The Release Engineer II oversees planning, scheduling, and deployment of software releases across the enterprise, ensuring seamless integration, minimal disruption, and alignment with organizational objectives. The goal for this position is to have improved deployment frequency, shortened lead time between fixes, and quicker recovery time in the event of failure. 

JOB PURPOSE & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• This role is responsible for scheduling, managing, and coordinating software releases across multiple applications within various portfolios, spanning different teams and projects. The individual ensures releases are executed smoothly while balancing competing priorities across the organization.

• The position involves planning and managing release windows and cycles across portfolios and system components, ensuring alignment with business objectives, technical dependencies, and delivery timelines.

• A key responsibility is creating, maintaining, and publishing a centralized release calendar that provides visibility into release activity and aligns product milestones across multiple teams.

• The role actively identifies, manages, and mitigates risks that may impact release scope, quality, or schedules, resolving challenges proactively to maintain stability and predictability in the release process.

• This individual measures and monitors progress to ensure timely software delivery within defined quality standards. They work closely with development, quality assurance, and product management teams to minimize rollbacks, hotfixes, and post‑release issues.

• Clear and consistent communication is essential, including sharing critical release plans, changes, and status updates. The role also involves monitoring the release process end‑to‑end and gathering feedback from internal teams and customers to inform continuous improvement.

• The position aligns schedules across dependent systems while integrating Agile and DevOps principles into release trains, enabling coordinated and scalable delivery across the enterprise.

• Continuous improvement is a core expectation, with ongoing evaluation and enhancement of release management processes, tools, and practices to increase efficiency and reliability.

• The role conducts release readiness assessments and milestone reviews to ensure all technical, operational, and business requirements are met prior to deployment.

• In partnership with product teams, this individual develops comprehensive release notes that translate technical changes into clear, business‑relevant impacts for customers and internal stakeholders.

• The position also focuses on automating and streamlining deployment pipelines to enable rapid, reliable releases. This includes building and maintaining tools that support deployment, testing, and operation within stable and scalable environments through effective configuration management.

• Finally, the role supports the transition from fragmented, application‑centric release practices to a mature enterprise release model by embedding AI‑powered capabilities such as predictive risk analysis, automated change validation, and intelligent scheduling across release and configuration management solutions.

PREFERRED SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Experience working with Jenkins, Github actions, containerization

• Working experience with deployment tooling

• Deep understanding of CI/CD workflows

• Understanding of semantic versioning

• A working understanding of branching strategies

• Experience with developing workflows for automated deployments

• Experience building Dashboards to report on Release Metrics

• Streamlining RM/Deployment Procedures utilizing AI 

• Jira/Confluence, Jenkins, Eazy BI, Power BI

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent 

• ​​7 - 10 years​ of relevant experience, preferably in release management

VIRTUAL REQUIREMENTS:

At DICK’S, we thrive on innovation and authenticity. That said, to protect the integrity and security of our hiring process, we ask that candidates do not use AI tools (like ChatGPT or others) during interviews or assessments.

To ensure a smooth and secure experience, please note the following:

• Cameras must be on during all virtual interviews.

• AI tools are not permitted to be used by the candidate during any part of the interview process.

• Offers are contingent upon a satisfactory background check which may include ID verification.

If you have any questions or need accommodations, we’re here to help. Thanks for helping us keep the process fair and secure for everyone!