Senior Manager - Release Engineering

We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time.

CVS Health is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness. Release Engineering owns the safety, consistency, and recoverability of application, platform, infrastructure, and edge changes across CVS Health's pharmacy, retail, and digital technology ecosystem (~9,000 stores, centralized platforms, and edge/dispensing systems).

The team defines and enforces the standards, guardrails, gates, and validation logic into pipelines that ride on top of our existing CI/CD and DevX investments, and drives their consistent adoption. Success looks like every engineering team shipping through the same trusted, instrumented release path.

Release Engineering partners with SRE, Dev/Engineering, Infrastructure, and Change Management so that every production change is observable, validated, and reversible before it ships, and executes against reliability standards: Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), operational readiness requirements, SLO-based deployment policies, and incident-learning outcomes.

Change Failure Reduction 

• Own Change Failure Rate (CFR) as the primary success metric
• Reduce deployment-induced incidents through deployment automation, validation, and recovery engineering 
• Maintain release-to-incident correlation to support postmortems and problem management

Deployment Guardrail & Governance Engineering 

• Define, enhance, operate CI/CD capabilities and deployment automation 
• Standardize delivery patterns across application, infrastructure, and edge platforms 
• Improve deployment reliability, consistency, and developer experience

Deployment Safety & Validation 

• Establish automated pre- and post-deployment validation
• Integrate synthetic testing, health checks, and observability signals into deployment workflows
• Ensure production health is verified before deployment completion

90 Days 

• →Establish CFR baseline across key platforms
• →Implement standardized deployment validation and rollback requirements
• →Integrate PRR requirements into release workflows

6 Months 

• →Automated deployment validation operational for priority platforms
• →Ring-based deployment model implemented for selected domains
• →Measurable reduction in change-related incidents

12 Months 

• →Enterprise deployment platform standardized across major domains
• →Automated deployment safety gates integrated with observability and SLO signals
• →CFR and deployment recovery metrics consistently reported and improved
• →Release Engineering recognized as a key enabler of reliability and operational excellence

Required Qualifications:

• →7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience, with people management skills in high-growth or high-availability environments
• →3+ years of deep hands-on background in CI/CD systems (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Harness), cloud platforms (Azure, GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes, Docker)
• →3+ years of experience optimizing complex build systems and branching/merging strategies
• →3+ years of experience bridging the gap between engineering depth and business impact
• →3+ years of experience focused on automation and customer service excellence

Preferred Qualifications:

• →Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement, ability to lead cross-functional teams, including offshore/onshore vendor teams
• →Experience implementing and improving SRE metrics in distributed environments

Education:

• →Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma + 4 years relevant experience)

The typical pay range for this role is: