Release Engineer
GCC India
- Location
- Onsite (Hyderabad, Telangāna)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid Level
About the role
LPL Financial's Global Capability Center in Hyderabad seeks a Release Engineer to manage software releases, CI/CD automation, and production operations. The role supports financial advisors by ensuring system reliability and driving continuous improvement through automation.
Skills
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Where Ambition Meets Innovation
At LPL’s Global Capability Center, you'll find a collaborative culture where your voice matters, integrity guides every decision, and technology fuels progress. Your skills, talents, and ideas will redefine what's possible. LPL's success reflects its exceptional employees, who together pursue one noble purpose: empowering financial advisors to deliver personalized advice for all who need it. We’re proud to be expanding and reaching new heights in Hyderabad.
Join us as we create something extraordinary together.
Job Summary
We are looking for a proactive and detail-oriented Release Engineer with 3+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, CI/CD automation, and Cloud technologies. The ideal candidate will support and manage software releases, deployment activities, and production operations while ensuring system reliability and availability.
This role requires participation in a 24x7 support model, collaboration with global teams, and ownership of deployment activities across multiple environments. The candidate should possess strong troubleshooting skills, automation experience, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Responsibilities:
- Release Management
- DevOps & CI/CD
- Cloud Operations
- Production Support (24x7 Operations)
- Collaboration & Continuous Improvement
What are we looking for?
We’re looking for strong collaborators who deliver exceptional client experiences and thrive in fast-paced, team-oriented environments. Our ideal candidates pursue greatness, act with integrity, and are driven to help our clients succeed. We value those who embrace creativity, continuous improvement, and contribute to a culture where we win together and create and share joy in our work.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
- 3+ years of experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, Application Support, or related roles.
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, or similar platforms.
- Knowledge of software release and deployment processes.
- Basic to intermediate experience with AWS Cloud services.
- Experience with source control systems such as Git.
- Familiarity with Linux/Unix environments.
- Experience with scripting (Shell, Python, PowerShell, or similar).
- Understanding of Agile and DevOps methodologies.
- Willingness to participate in a 24x7 support/on-call rotation.
Core Competencies:
- Experience with GitHub Actions and deployment automation.
- Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, and containerized environments.
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Exposure to monitoring and logging tools such as CloudWatch, Splunk, Grafana, or Datadog.
- Familiarity with code quality tools such as SonarQube.
Preferences:
- Problem Solving
- Communication Skills
- Team Collaboration
- Stakeholder Coordination
- Time Management
- Ownership & Accountability
- Ability to Work in Global Teams
- Successful and timely release deployments.
- Reduction in deployment failures and manual effort.
- High production system availability.
- Faster incident resolution and reduced downtime.
- Increased automation across release processes.
- Positive stakeholder and customer feedback.