# Release Engineering Leader

**Company**: CVS Health
**Location**: Woonsocket, RI
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $130,295.00 - $260,590.00
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

CVS Health is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness.

Release Engineering owns the safety, consistency, and recoverability of application, platform, infrastructure, and edge changes across CVS Health's pharmacy, retail, and digital technology ecosystem (~9,000 stores, centralized platforms, and edge/dispensing systems).

The team defines and enforces the standards, guardrails, gates, and validation logic into pipelines that ride on top of existing CI/CD and DevX investments, and drives their consistent adoption.

**Primary Objectives:**

- **Change Failure Reduction**

- Own Change Failure Rate (CFR) as the primary success metric

- Reduce deployment-induced incidents through deployment automation, validation, and recovery engineering

- Maintain release-to-incident correlation to support postmortems and problem management

- **Deployment Guardrail & Governance Engineering**

- Define, enhance, operate CI/CD capabilities and deployment automation

- Standardize delivery patterns across application, infrastructure, and edge platforms

- Improve deployment reliability, consistency, and developer experience

- **Deployment Safety & Validation**

- Establish automated pre- and post-deployment validation

- Integrate synthetic testing, health checks, and observability signals into deployment workflows

- Ensure production health is verified before deployment completion

- **Fleet-Scale Deployment Management**

- Define and enforce ring-based deployment strategies for store, edge, and centralized platforms

- Enable progressive delivery, automated promotion gates, and controlled rollout strategies

- Minimize blast radius through phased deployment patterns

- **Recovery Engineering**

- Ensure every deployment has tested rollback or failback capabilities

- Improve recovery time for release-related incidents through automation

- Enable feature flags, traffic controls, and deployment safety mechanisms

- **Infrastructure Change Reliability**

- Standardize validation and rollback requirements for high-risk infrastructure changes

- Automate post-maintenance verification and health validation

- Partner with infrastructure teams to improve change reliability and reduce change-induced incidents

- **Incident & Learning Integration**

- Provide deployment and change context during major incidents

- Support release impact analysis during postmortems

- Drive deployment-related improvements from incident learnings and problem records

- **Leadership Responsibilities**

- Build and develop a high-performing Release Engineering organization

- Establish engineering-first delivery practices that prioritize reliability and safety, without adding adoption friction

- Champion automation, standardization, and continuous improvement across the software delivery lifecycle

- Partner with SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure, Product Engineering, and Change Management to improve production reliability

**Success Measures:**

- **90 Days**

- Establish CFR baseline across key platforms

- Implement standardized deployment validation and rollback requirements

- Integrate PRR requirements into release workflows

- **6 Months**

- Automated deployment validation operational for priority platforms

- Ring-based deployment model implemented for selected domains

- Measurable reduction in change-related incidents

- **12 Months**

- Enterprise deployment platform standardized across major domains

- Automated deployment safety gates integrated with observability and SLO signals

- CFR and deployment recovery metrics consistently reported and improved

- Release Engineering recognized as a key enabler of reliability and operational excellence

**Required Qualifications:**

- 7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience, with people management skills in high-growth or high-availability environments

- 3+ years of deep hands-on background in CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness), cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)

- 3+ years of experience optimizing complex build systems and branching/merging strategies

- 3+ years of experience bridging the gap between engineering depth and business impact

- 3+ years of experience focused on automation and customer service excellence

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement, ability to lead cross-functional teams, including offshore/onshore vendor teams

- Experience implementing and improving SRE metrics in distributed environments

**Pay Range:** $130,295.00 - $260,590.00

## Skills

### Required
- CI/CD systems
- cloud platforms
- containerization
- Kubernetes
- Docker
- GitHub Actions
- Jenkins
- Harness
- Azure
- GCP

### Nice to have
- SRE metrics
- communication and stakeholder management

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