CareerPlan

Staff Release Engineer

Bristol, UKFull-time£98k–£125k2026-10-22 → 2026-11-10
Hybrid

Core

Set technical strategy and global architecture for continuous integration, delivery, and automated release ecosystems to enable safe, frequent software deployment across the organization.

Role type

Staff Release Engineer (Strategic IC with mentorship)

Builds

Centralized developer tooling, automated deployment platforms, and infrastructure-as-code systems for multi-tenant SaaS environments

Domain

Energy Intelligence Platform / Cloud Native DevOps

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

CI/CD architecture, DevOps practices, DORA metrics, Infrastructure as Code, Cloud infrastructure, Container orchestration, Workflow automation, Technical mentorship, Strategic planning

Preferred skills

LLM integration, AI tooling advocacy, Enterprise release strategy, Regulated domain experience

Technologies

GitHub Actions, Terraform, AWS, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, GitHub Enterprise

Responsibilities

Lead high-level design and roadmap for release ecosystems; Embed automated deployment mechanisms and SRE principles; Define and enforce global DevOps standards and metrics; Own strategy for deployment platforms and IaC tools; Mentor engineers on automated delivery and AI enablement; Conduct audits and build proofs-of-concept for critical infrastructure