Engineering Operations & Release Lead

Wordly.ai
Los Altos, CA
Remote
Job Description
Join Wordly's fast growing global team! As the Engineering Operations & Release Lead at Wordly, you will own the operational flow that takes features from “ready to release” into reliable, compliant production deployments across our applications.

Requirements

  • 5+ years in Engineering Operations, Release Management, DevOps, SRE, or a closely related operational role in a cloud-native software environment.
  • Proven experience coordinating releases across multiple teams or services, including planning, communication, and post-release follow-up.
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD) and comfortable inspecting and managing build and deployment workflows.
  • Solid understanding of SDLC, environments, branching strategies, and standard quality gates (reviews, testing, smoke tests).
  • Experience working with structured change management (change records, approvals, release checklists) suitable for audit and compliance.
  • Working knowledge of cloud-native architectures (containers, microservices, Kubernetes or similar) and their impact on deployment and release risk.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to explain risks, timelines, and trade-offs to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
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