Senior Release Engineer (IT) @ Palo Alto Networks

Your Impact

• Environment Management: Manage environment builds, zero-downtime refresh strategies for IT environments ensuring stability, compliance, and secure handling of data.
• Release Management Excellence: Manage and coordinate release activities across IT programs, embedding best practices for quality and security.
• Secure Release Practices: Strengthen the release process by embedding security and code quality tools to ensure security and compliance from build through deployment.
• Hands-On Automation Development: Build and maintain automation scripts and tools using Python, Shell Script, Java, and JavaScript to reduce manual effort, improve efficiency, and standardize environment maintenance.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with application, infrastructure, and DevOps teams to ensure stable environments with latest data, align on release planning, and ensure delivery of high-quality programs.
• Mentorship & Knowledge Sharing: Provide guidance to Associate Engineers on best practices in release management, automation scripting, and DevOps processes, fostering a culture of continuous learning.
• Continuous Improvement: Research, evaluate, and adopt modern tools, frameworks, and AI-driven practices to continuously enhance release efficiency, environment reliability, and security posture.
• Drive AI-First SDLC: Champion and integrate an "AI-First" mindset throughout the software development lifecycle, influencing how we build, test, and release software.

Your Experience

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in Release engineering, DevOps, and environment management.
• Strong programming/scripting skills in Python, Shell Script, JavaScript and Java or a similar object-oriented language.
• Practical experience with CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Harness), Git-based workflows, and branching strategies.
• Experience with security and code quality tools.
• Exposure to environment refresh/masking for enterprise platforms.
• Familiarity with ServiceNow, Jira.
• Exposure to application architecture and working knowledge of Salesforce, SAP, Microservices is preferred.
• Hands-on AI Fluency - pair and delegated programming, AI for productivity and automation; Exposure to building agents is good-to-have.
• EducationBachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field