Senior DevOps Engineer, Release Engineering

Senior DevOps Engineer – Release Engineering Location: Boston/Marlborough, MA — Hybrid, 3 days per week Role Overview Nasuni is looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer – Release Engineering to help design, scale, and improve the systems that move software from development through testing and release. You will be a senior technical contributor within DevOps / Release Engineering, with ownership of complex CI/CD pipelines, build and test infrastructure, build tooling and scripts, release automation, and engineering workflows used across multiple teams. Your work will directly influence software delivery speed, reliability, developer productivity, and release quality. This role is suited to an engineer who has gone beyond maintaining pipelines and can independently diagnose systemic problems, design scalable solutions, establish reusable patterns, and lead technical initiatives across Engineering and QA. It is not primarily a release-coordination or operations-support position. Success requires hands-on engineering depth and the ability to improve the underlying systems themselves. Level & Scope You will independently own technically complex release-engineering problems from design through implementation and operational improvement. You will make technical decisions within the release-engineering domain, lead medium-to-large initiatives involving multiple engineering teams, mentor other engineers, and influence Build and Release standards and technical practices. The role remains highly hands-on, balancing implementation with system design, technical leadership, troubleshooting, and continuous improvement.

What You'll Do

Design, build, and own own build and release processes and automation frameworks supporting multiple engineering teams. Engineer distributed build and test using GitHub Actions along with Jenkins Act as a build engineer as well as a release engineer: understand, modify, and improve product build scripts and tooling, and partner with development teams to remove build bottlenecks and improve repeatability. Own and optimize build environments and agent templates, using Packer together with Terraform and Ansible to define, provision, and maintain consistent build infrastructure. Improve artifact and package-management workflows, including RPM lifecycle management, repository organization, traceability, and promotion models in Artifactory. Improve pipeline performance, reliability, test parallelization, failure recovery, and developer experience. Build reusable automation and infrastructure patterns that incorporate security, scalability, observability, and operational resilience. Define Define build and release requirements for complex product changes and identify release, dependency, and infrastructure risks early. Design and evolve branching, versioning, and release workflows across multiple repositories. Develop automated validation for patch, release, and code-freeze workflows, including GitHub Actions where appropriate to verify branch state, policy compliance, and release readiness. Integrate automated quality gates and partner with Engineering and QA to improve test reliability and release readiness. Troubleshoot complex pipeline and distributed infrastructure failures and implement durable corrective actions. Strengthen monitoring, alerting, and operational visibility across build and release infrastructure. Lead cross-functional technical initiatives and drive alignment on architecture and implementation decisions. Mentor engineers in build and release automation, infrastructure, and release best practices infrastructure, and release-engineering practices. Use AI-assisted engineering tools where appropriate for tasks such as log analysis, code generation, troubleshooting, test creation, or workflow automation, while validating outputs for correctness, security, and production readiness. Evaluate opportunities to create repeatable AI-assisted workflows that improve engineering productivity without reducing technical ownership or quality.