Software Development Engineer - Release Engineering

Description

The company is a media and entertainment business that connects millions of people with entertainment, sports, news and arts.

The Release Engineering team helps ship reliable, high-quality software for broadband and entertainment devices. You will work alongside development, QA, product and operations to keep customer experiences stable.

Responsibilities

• Run software releases from planning through delivery, so they ship on schedule and meet agreed quality standards.
• Maintain release schedules and deployment plans, and support readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions.
• Check that testing, quality, compliance and deployment criteria are met before anything goes live.
• Align objectives, dependencies and delivery plans with development, QA, product and operations.
• Track build health, release metrics and deployment results, and catch and reduce risks early.
• Keep stakeholders and leadership informed about status, risks, dependencies and mitigation plans.

Requirements

• Substantial hands-on experience in release engineering, release management, DevOps or software delivery.
• A record of running large releases across several products, platforms and stakeholder groups.
• A solid grasp of software development lifecycles, Agile delivery, release governance, deployment strategies and operational excellence.
• Practical CI/CD and automation experience, including Jenkins and Git-based workflows, plus Git, Gerrit or SVN.
• Strong Linux skills and scripting in Python, Bash or Shell, with software development experience in C or C++.
• Strong analytical, organisational, problem-solving and communication skills, including working with release metrics and managing risk.
• Desirable: experience in broadband, video, set-top box, embedded device or RDK environments.
• Desirable: experience improving CI/CD pipelines, build management and deployment automation.
• Desirable: experience assessing tools, plugins and processes that make releases more efficient and higher quality.

Conditions

Hybrid working, with 2 days in the office per week.

Your office base is either Brentwood or Osterley.

Brentwood is a 10-minute walk from the train station, with regular trains to London Liverpool Street. The site has a café serving hot meals and snacks, bike racks, showers and onsite parking, with more car parks a short walk away.

Osterley is the group headquarters with 13 subsidised restaurants and cafes, a gym, a cinema, a car wash and a beauty salon. It is a 10-minute walk from Syon Lane station, has free shuttle buses from Osterley, Gunnersbury and Ealing Broadway stations, and offers free onsite parking for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

You must have the right to work in the UK, and the company does not offer sponsorship for this role.

A successful application leads to a criminal record check, and the offer might be withdrawn depending on the role and the nature of any convictions.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and a Disability Confident Accredited Employer, and will make reasonable adjustments where appropriate.

Benefits

• Free TV package including sports and cinema channels.
• Pension with up to 9% employer contribution.
• Private healthcare with mental health support.
• Insurance covering digital GP and dental care.
• Discounts on the company's broadband, mobile, TV and protection products.
• Sharesave and Tech schemes.
• Access to VIP rewards and experiences.