Release Engineering Lead Azure DevOps

Location: Bracknell South

Release Engineering Lead (Azure Dev Ops SaaS) Reigate / WFH to £130k
Do you have a Dev Ops background combined with strong release management experience in a SaaS environment?
You could be progressing your career, working on complex and challenging systems at a global Insur Tech business and enjoying a range of perks and benefits including flexible working.
As a Release Engineering Lead you'll take ownership of how software is packaged, released and presented to customers within a growing SaaS environment, combining hands-on release management with the opportunity to shape and modernise release practices across a wider technology estate.
A significant part of your role will involve managing day-to-day releases for an assigned product stack, you'll coordinate risks, dependencies and release readiness across multiple teams, making informed decisions that balance delivery speed, quality, security and business risk.
Alongside this operational responsibility, you'll assess existing release processes and help establish more consistent, coherent and automated approaches across products and engineering teams. You'll reduce manual effort and release toil by improving CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure and release automation, while embedding governance, security and compliance into the delivery process.
You'll also define and improve release readiness criteria, delivery and release metrics, environment promotion models and release health practices. Your experience should cover automated testing, deployment orchestration, blue / green or ring-based deployments, observability and monitoring within modern SaaS environments.
This is a highly visible role involving release management, Dev Ops, platform tooling, governance, coaching and organisational change. You'll build credibility quickly, assess the current estate, form clear recommendations and lead teams towards improved release maturity. Coaching and influencing engineering teams will be central to the role, helping developers adopt better practices while creating a smoother, more reliable release experience.
WFH Policy:
There's a flexible work from home hybrid model, you'll join colleagues in the Reigate office twice a week for team meet-ups and stakeholder meetings with the other three days' work from home.

About you:

You have strong Release Management experience in a SaaS product environment, managing frequent releases
You have hands-on experience in a previous Dev Ops role within an Azure cloud environment
You have experience of improving CI/CD processes in complex environments
You combine strong technical knowledge with confident communication, sound risk based decision making and the ability to influence stakeholders across the organisation
You have a good technical understanding of Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub, Infrastructure as Code, trunk-based development and Git Ops
What's in it for you:
Up to £130k salary plus significant bonus
Hybrid working (3 days a week work from home)
Enhanced parental leave
25 days holiday (plus buy days and your birthday off)
Pension (up to 10% contribution)
Health Care and Life Assurance
Training and career development
Social events and a range of other perks
Apply now  to find out more about this Release Engineering Lead (Azure Dev Ops SaaS) opportunity.