Release Engineer - Burgess Hill

Requirements

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with proactive stakeholder management.
• Strong understanding of mobile application release lifecycles for i OS and Android.
• Hands-on experience with mobile CI/CD and release automation.
• Experience with Git, Git Hub workflows, Git Hub Actions and/or Circle CI.
• Basic understanding of Kubernetes, containerised applications, and deployment concepts.
• Experience with feature flag management in production environments.
• Familiarity with backend deployment pipelines and APIs.
• Understanding of Git branching, tagging, versioning, and release strategies.
• Knowledge of Apple App Store and Google Play release processes.
• Experience troubleshooting release pipeline failures and deployment issues.
• Strong organisational skills with high attention to detail.
• Ability to coordinate multiple teams and manage competing priorities.
• Comfortable facilitating meetings and driving alignment across teams.
• Proven experience working closely with Product and Engineering teams.
• Strong influencing skills without direct authority.
• Proactive in identifying risks and resolving issues quickly.
• Calm under pressure, especially during critical release windows.
• Strong analytical mindset with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Experience in mobile-first or consumer-facing applications preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies preferred.
• Experience managing simultaneous multi-platform releases preferred.
• Exposure to monitoring and observability tools such as Sentry, ELK, and dashboards preferred.
• Experience with feature flag platforms preferred.
• Experience supporting production releases for consumer-facing mobile applications preferred.
• Backend development experience with strong Java and Kotlin preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage our release calendar across i OS, Android, and backend platforms.
• Coordinate release scope with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, QA, and Ops.
• Ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and dependencies across teams.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions.
• Oversee end-to-end release execution, including build, testing, and deployment phases.
• Coordinate mobile app submissions for the App Store and Google Play.
• Manage backend release deployments, ensuring compatibility with mobile versions.
• Ensure versioning, tagging, and branching strategies are followed consistently.
• Execute and coordinate production releases for mobile applications and supporting backend services.
• Manage release schedules and deployment activities across multiple environments.
• Own production feature flag management, including planning, enabling, disabling, validating, and monitoring feature flags throughout the release lifecycle.
• Support production incidents related to deployments, feature flags, and release activities, coordinating with engineering teams to restore service where required.
• Monitor release health and coordinate issue resolution with engineering teams.
• Ensure deployment checklists and release runbooks are followed.
• Support production rollbacks when required.
• Act as the central point of communication for all release-related activities.
• Proactively communicate release progress, risks, blockers, deployment status, and production issues to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure all release activities are clearly documented and communicated before, during, and after deployments.
• Translate technical updates into concise, business-friendly communication where appropriate.
• Maintain release documentation, release notes, deployment records, and post-release summaries.
• Identify, track and mitigate release risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate resolution of blocking issues and incidents during release cycles.
• Lead rollback planning and execution where required.
• Drive continuous improvement of release management processes and tooling.
• Implement and maintain best practices for CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Partner with QA to ensure robust testing and release quality gates.
• Analyse release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, release success rate, and rollback incidents to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive release tasks and improve deployment efficiency.
• Technologies
• Android
• Backend
• CI/CD
• ELK
• Git
• Git Hub
• Support
• Java
• Kotlin
• Kubernetes
• Mobile
• Sentry
• Windows
• i OS
• More

We are seeking an experienced and highly organised Release Engineer to oversee the end-to-end release lifecycle of our native mobile applications for i OS and Android, along with supporting backend services.

This role bridges Product and Engineering, driving high-quality, reliable, and clearly communicated releases.

We need someone technically proficient, highly organised, and an exceptional communicator who can confidently coordinate complex release activities across engineering, product, operations, and QA teams.

The role supports production release activities that may occur outside normal business hours, so we look for someone flexible to occasionally start earlier or finish later, provide release support during critical deployment windows, and be available during agreed release windows to coordinate deployments and resolve release issues.

Success in this role is measured by predictable, on-time releases with minimal disruption, reduced release-related incidents and rollbacks, improved release cycle efficiency and automation, and high stakeholder satisfaction with communication and delivery.

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