Senior Manager – Release management

Job Title: DevOps Release management (with DevOps & Release Automation Focus) Location: Mexico City Employment Type: Full-Time Experience: 5+ Years Job Summary: We are seeking a technically strong Release Manager to lead the automation, reliability, and consistency of our software release processes across Digital teams. This role is focused on building and evolving the engineering capabilities that enable high‑quality, low‑friction releases — including CI/CD pipelines, automated validation steps, safe deployment patterns, and reliable rollback strategies. You will collaborate with full‑stack, data, and cloud engineering teams to ensure our release processes are secure, scalable, and aligned with modern DevOps and platform‑engineering practices. The ideal candidate is an engineer at heart who can translate release requirements into automation, tooling, and best‑practice patterns adopted across teams. Key Responsibilities: Release Automation & CI/CD Ownership:
• Design, build, and optimize automated CI/CD workflows (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) to support consistent and reliable deployments across environments.
• Implement automated release validation steps including build verification, test gates, security scans, dependency checks, and artifact promotion.
• Define and standardize deployment and release procedures through automation rather than manual checklists. Safe Deployment & Rollback Engineering:
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve rollback strategies (blue/green, canary, feature flags, versioned deployments).
• Ensure that code, configuration, and infrastructure releases follow reliable versioning and traceability practices.
• Partner with engineering teams to increase release resilience and reduce change failure rates. Release Coordination Through Tooling & Visibility
• Enable transparent release visibility by building dashboards and automated reporting (e.g., via GitHub, Azure DevOps, dashboards, or observability tools).
• Provide engineering teams with real‑time insight into deployment status, release contents, and post‑deployment health.
• Ensure release information is accessible and self‑service rather than dependent on manual communication. Cross-Team Collaboration & Standards
• Partner with QA, Cloud Engineering, and Platform Engineering to align standards for automated testing, environment readiness, and quality gates.
• Work with product engineering teams to ensure release patterns are adopted consistently across stacks.
• Contribute technical guidance to evolve release standards, tooling, and best practices across Digital. Platform, Observability & Operational Reliability
• Improve observability and deployment health monitoring using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, and/or Datadog.
• Contribute to operational excellence by improving reliability, availability, and MTTR (mean time to recovery) of release-related workflows. Subject-Matter Expertise & Mentorship
• Act as the technical SME for release automation across Digital teams.
• Mentor engineers on modern DevOps, CI/CD, GitOps, and release engineering practices. Note: this is not an exhaustive list of responsibilities Required Qualifications:
• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Release Engineering, SRE, Platform, or Cloud roles
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure (compute, networking, storage, identity)
• Experience designing and supporting CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps Pipelines and/or GitHub Actions)
• Experience supporting containerized workloads and Kubernetes platforms (e.g., AKS)
• Strong understanding of containerization (Docker, Helm)
• Experience with scripting or automation using Bash, PowerShell, Python, or similar
• Solid understanding of networking concepts (DNS, load balancing, firewalls, VPNs)
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and collaboration skills Preferred Qualifications:
• Azure certifications: AZ‑104, AZ‑400, or AZ‑305
• Experience with GitOps tools or models (ArgoCD, Flux, etc.)
• Experience with policy/guardrail‑based approaches (Azure Policy, OPA/Gatekeeper)
• Experience contributing to or maintaining shared engineering standards or platform capabilities

Kraft Heinz is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Underrepresented Ethnic Minority Groups/Women/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities/Sexual Orientation/Gender Identity and other protected classes.