Sr. Manager, Platform Build & Release

Job summary

Vertafore is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Build and Release to define and evolve the company’s build, CI/CD, and release management platforms and standards. This role ensures engineering teams can deliver software reliably, securely, and at high velocity through well-designed pipelines, consistent tooling, and clear operational guardrails. The Senior Manager will work closely with application development teams, site reliability engineering, security, and operations.

Benefits

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or related disciplines.
• 5+ years in technical leadership roles, including managing senior engineers or managers.
• Deep hands-on experience with implementing and scaling CI/CD systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with pipeline design (Gitlab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins).
• Deep hands-on experience with build systems and artifact management (Sonatype Nexus, various build frameworks).
• Deep hands-on experience with release management and deployment strategies.
• Deep hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code tools and implementations (Terraform, CDK, Cloud Formation).
• Experience with blue/green deployments, Canary Releases, A/B testing, and experiment systems.
• Experience with Configuration as Code technologies (Chef, Puppet, Ansible).
• Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices and architectures.
• Proven ability to influence across teams without direct ownership.
• Strong communication skills with both technical and executive audiences.

Responsibilities

• Define, establish, and maintain enterprise strategy and reference implementations for build systems, CI/CD tooling, and pipeline architectures.
• Ensure build and pipeline solutions are scalable, resilient, and maintainable across multiple teams and products.
• Drive consolidation and simplification of build and pipeline tooling.
• Own CI/CD standards, policies, and best practices.
• Define pipeline structure and conventions.
• Define artifact versioning and promotion strategies.
• Integrate security scanning and compliance.
• Partner with Security and Architecture to embed secure-by-default and compliance-ready practices.
• Define guardrails that balance autonomy and consistency for delivery teams.
• Define standards for release orchestration and promotion across environments.
• Define standards for change management and deployment approvals.
• Define standards for rollback, rollback automation, and release observability.
• Lead the transition toward modern release models (e.g., continuous delivery, progressive delivery).
• Enable product and platform teams through reusable tooling, templates, and documentation.
• Provide clear onboarding paths for build and release standards.
• Offer consultation and architectural guidance.
• Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders on delivery and release challenges.
• Drive adoption through influence, clarity, and measurable value.
• Communicate strategy, progress, and outcomes to senior technology leadership.

Skills

Travel

Industry

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