Release Engineer

Job Description

Asset Mark is a leading strategic provider of innovative investment and consulting solutions serving independent financial advisors. We provide investment, relationship, and practice management solutions that advisors use to help clients achieve wealth, independence, and purpose.

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Release Engineer to join our team, responsible for managing the release pipeline for both our modern and legacy platforms and systems. This position requires working closely with a talented team of offshore release engineers and onshore release managers, while also contributing to day‑to‑day release and deployment activities.

As a Release Engineer, you will be instrumental in driving the release process, from development to production environments, ensuring smooth deployments, application availability, and high‑quality software releases. The role will focus on leveraging Azure Dev Ops, Kubernetes, ArgoCD, Helm charts, and modern containerization technologies to manage releases ly automated deployment is a key priority for our organization.

We can consider candidates for this position who are able to accommodate a hybrid work schedule and are close to our Concord, CA office.

• Build and Release Automation:
  Expertise in automating build and deployment processes across multiple environments, including running automated tests.
• Azure Dev Ops:
  Experience with Azure Dev Ops tools for CI/CD pipelines, source control, and artifact management.
• Version Control & Git:
  Strong understanding of version control using Git and branching strategies, including best practices for leveraging Git.
• ArgoCD:
  Hands‑on experience with ArgoCD for Git Ops‑based deployments and managing Kubernetes resources.
• Helm Charts:
  Expertise in creating, managing, and deploying Helm charts for Kubernetes applications.
• Docker & Containerization:
  Solid understanding of Docker, containerization, and orchestration using Kubernetes.
• Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS):
  Experience in deploying and managing containerized applications on AKS.
• Base Images & Container Registries:
  Experience with managing base images, image repositories, and Docker container registries in a cloud environment.
• Package Management:
  Experience managing approved internal code packages, including NuGet and npm artifacts.
• App Services & Databases:
  Proficiency in managing Azure App Services, SQL Databases, Postgre
  
  SQL, and Mongo
  
  DB deployments for seamless backend operations.
• Code Quality Tools:
  Experience using Sonar Qube and Arnica to ensure high‑quality code standards and enforce best practices.
• Windows and Linux:
  While our legacy platform is based on the Microsoft stack, our new, modern platform is built on Linux.

• Release Engineering
  • Take ownership of the technical release process for both modern and legacy platforms, planning and overseeing technical aspects of releases, working with Release Managers.
  • Collaborate with cross‑functional application development teams to ensure high‑quality, automated releases.
  • Implement and manage fully automated deployment pipelines using Azure Dev Ops, ensuring seamless and repeatable deployment across all environments.
  • Perform deployments and participate in coordinated feature release activities into non‑production and production environments as necessary.
• Team Leadership & Offshore Management
  • Lead, guide, and mentor offshore release engineers to ensure high standards of release management, problem‑solving, and incident resolution.
  • Facilitate communication, knowledge sharing, and collaboration between release engineering and release management, project management, and other stakeholders.
  • Ensure team adherence to best practices in code quality, automation, testing, and documentation.
• CI/CD Pipeline Automation
  • Create, manage, and maintain Azure Dev Ops pipelines, leveraging tools such as ArgoCD, Helm Charts, and Docker to automate deployments and facilitate continuous integration.
  • Implement and optimize Infrastructure as Code to maintain scalable, reproducible environments across all platforms.
• Containerization & Cloud Infrastructure
  • Work with Docker and containerized technologies…