Senior Manager, Release Engineering

CVS Health

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Work type
Remote
Location
Remote
Salary
$130,295–$260,590 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live yesterday
Closes
Oct 11, 2026

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This role $195k
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This role pays more than 53% of similar roles. Most pay $168,475–$229,500 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $195k versus about $199k for comparable roles.

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About CVS Health

CVS Health is a leading American healthcare company operating retail pharmacies, pharmacy benefit management services, and a health insurance segment through Aetna, one of the nation''s largest health insurers. Industry: Healthcare & Pharmacy

CVS Health currently has 88 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $118,450–$284,280 across 84 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Senior Manager, Release Engineering

Senior Manager - Release Engineering leads the Release Engineering team for Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness to ensure the safety, consistency, and recoverability of application, platform, infrastructure, and edge changes across a vast retail and digital ecosystem. This leader manages the core responsibilities of defining deployment guardrails, establishing automated pre- and post-deployment validation, and implementing ring-based deployment strategies to minimize blast radius. The role focuses on reducing change failure rates through automation, recovery engineering, and integrating observability signals into workflows. Key technical requirements include expertise in CI/CD systems like GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and Harness, alongside experience with cloud platforms such as Azure and GCP, and containerization technologies including Kubernetes and Docker. This position solves the critical challenge of ensuring production reliability for high-availability environments by standardizing delivery patterns across complex infrastructure and software components.

What you'll do

  • Own the Change Failure Rate (CFR) as the primary metric for release success.
  • Define and enforce standards, guardrails, and validation logic within CI/CD pipelines.
  • Standardize delivery patterns across application, infrastructure, and edge platforms to improve reliability.
  • Implement automated pre- and post-deployment validations including synthetic testing and health checks.
  • Manage fleet-scale deployments using ring-based strategies and automated promotion gates.
  • Develop recovery engineering capabilities such as feature flags and automated rollback mechanisms.
  • Lead a high-performing Release Engineering organization by establishing engineering-first delivery practices.
  • Partner with SRE, Infrastructure, and Product teams to improve production reliability and safety.

What we're looking for

  • 7+ years of senior software engineering leadership experience with people management skills in high-growth or high-availability environments.
  • 3+ years of hands-on background in CI/CD systems, 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.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, including executive-level engagement and leading cross-functional teams (preferred).
  • Experience implementing and improving SRE metrics in distributed environments (preferred).
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience (HS diploma plus 4 years relevant experience).

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