CVS Health
Senior Manager - Release Engineering
$130K–$261K
RI - Woonsocket · Remote/Hybrid · Manager · Full-time · Posted Oct 19, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years of senior software engineering leadership; 3+ years in each of the specified CI/CD/cloud/containerization, build-system, engineering-to-business, and automation/customer-service areas.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience).
About the job
Leads Release Engineering for CVS Health’s Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness, standardizing safe, observable, and recoverable deployments across application, infrastructure, and edge platforms.
What you'll do
- Own change-failure reduction and improve deployment reliability through automation, validation, and recovery engineering.
- Define and operate deployment guardrails, safety checks, rollout strategies, and rollback requirements across platforms.
- Build and develop the Release Engineering organization and partner across teams to improve production reliability.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience, including people management, in high-growth or high-availability environments.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with CI/CD systems, cloud platforms, and containerization.
- 3+ years optimizing complex build systems and branching/merging strategies.
- 3+ years bridging engineering depth and business impact, and 3+ years focused on automation and customer service excellence.
Nice to have
- Executive-level communication and stakeholder management; experience leading cross-functional teams, including offshore/onshore vendor teams.
- Experience implementing and improving SRE metrics in distributed environments.
Pay
$130,295.00 - $260,590.00 USD base salary (or base hourly rate)
Tools
GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker
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