Junior Release Engineer

Cabot Financial are on the lookout for a Junior Release Engineer to join our team, in our Kings Hill office, ME19 4UA!

What you can expect as a Junior Release Engineer:

• Salary of £40,000
• Permanent
• Hybrid working – 2 days a week from our office in Kings Hill, Kent. ME19 4UA.

Not only are we offering a competitive salary and a fantastic bonus scheme, you’ll also be entitled to loads of great benefits including, discount and cash back on hundreds of high-street shops and private health insurance, plus much more.

As our Junior Release Engineer, you’ll play a key part in managing and coordinating software releases across our development lifecycle—working closely with developers, QA teams, and key stakeholders to ensure smooth, timely, and high-quality deployments. This is a fantastic opportunity to support and continuously improve our release and environment management practices within a fast-paced and collaborative environment.

Key Accountabilities & Responsibilities

• Assist with the creation and maintenance of software release plans, timelines, and schedules.
• Work closely with development teams to ensure release preparation and documentation is both timely, accurate and of high-quality.
• Support the CCM Change Management Process by raising Requests for Change (RFC) and where appropriate represent them at Technical Review Board (TRB) and Change Approval Board (CAB).
• Coordinate software releases, ensuring that all dependencies are met and that releases are delivered on time.
• Deploy releases via Azure Pipelines to Production / non-Production platforms and ad-hoc processes where required.
• Collaborate with developers and QA teams to identify and resolve issues related to software releases and environments.
• Ensure that all release documentation is complete and current.
• Assist in the maintenance of release processes and procedures.
• Continuously evaluate and improve release and environment management practices.
• Assist in the management of development, test, staging and production environments, ensuring that they are stable and secure.
• Stay current with industry trends and best practices related to release and environment management.

Desirable Knowledge & Experience:

• Experience of software release management processes, procedures, and best practice (ITIL Framework).
• Exposure to Azure DevOps.
• Experience of ITIL Service Management tools such as Service Now.
• General Windows Server OS experience.
• Knowledge of SQL (desirable not essential).
• Good organisational skills and the ability to handle multiple concurrent activities.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Familiarity with software configuration management.
• Good problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Understanding of the software development cycle.

If this sounds like you and you’d like to join our people focused company, then apply now!

Working for Cabot:

You’ll be working for an award winning; Investors in People Gold accredited organisation. We’re passionate about the ethical treatment of our customers and employees. Our mission is to create pathways to economic freedom. Our vision is to make credit accessible by partnering with our consumers to restore their financial health.

Diversity and inclusion are very important to us at Cabot, and we value a multitude of diverse talent within our business. We want everyone to be themselves at work and encourage a culture that includes everyone. Our policies ensure that every candidate and employee are treated fairly and with equal opportunities.

At Cabot we are highly regulated by our clients, as such, any successful candidates will have to undergo a basic credit check and criminal background check. Please note that we are unable to proceed to interview stage if a CCJ, IVA or Bankruptcy appears on a credit file, or if you do not have full right to work in the UK – we are unfortunately unable to offer sponsorship.