ERCOT
Release Analyst - CI/CD
Taylor, TX · Senior
Sponsorship not specified$120k-$165kDetected 30 days ago
PythonPowerShellSQLDatabricksAzureCloud PlatformsTerraformAnsibleCI/CDLinuxDevOpsData AnalysisJiraStakeholder ManagementCadenceLeadershipCollaboration
About the role
- Expected Salary Range: $120,000 - $165,000
Requirements
- Sr level: Requires minimum 5 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements.
- Lead: Requires minimum 8 years job related work experience in excess of degree requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience in IT Change & Release Management, specifically for infrastructure releases (OS patching, security updates, cloud deployments, and system upgrades).
- Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in system integration, infrastructure release management, or IT operations - with demonstrated ownership of end-to-end release lifecycle execution.
- Strong knowledge of ITIL best practices for Change, Release, Incident, and Problem Management, including risk-based change classification (Standard, Normal, and Emergency changes).
- Demonstrated Experience of automated deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, or rolling deployments and when to apply each in a production environment.
- Familiarity with database/databricks/cloud applications change management practices, including version-controlled schema migrations and automated rollback strategies within release pipelines.
- Experience with ServiceNow for managing release and infrastructure deployment workflows.
- Hands-on experience with infrastructure release management, including server patching, database updates, cloud infrastructure rollouts, and network changes.
- Working knowledge of IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning and release management.
- Work Experience (Mandatory)
- Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience designing, building, or managing CI/CD pipelines for application and/or infrastructure delivery across multi-stack environments.
- Demonstrated experience implementing or operating release governance frameworks, including automated quality gates, readiness checks, and deployment approval workflows within CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrated Experience integrating CI/CD pipelines with ITSM platforms (ServiceNow or equivalent) for automated change record creation, approval routing, and release traceability.
- Experience tracking and reporting software delivery performance metrics (deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery) to drive continuous improvement.
- Certifications (Preferred)
- ITIL v4 Certification (Highly Preferred).
Nice to have
- Establish a consistent and predictable release cadence across IT applications, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components.
- Ensure adherence to enterprise IT policies and security standards while executing application and infrastructure releases.
- Track release deliverables, security compliance checks, and functional/security test approvals, ensuring production readiness.
- Monitor infrastructure changes, including system upgrades, network modifications, storage enhancements, and patching cycles.
- Provide oversight for OS patching, covering major and minor updates for Windows, Linux along with firmware updates for storage and network CIs and other enterprise systems.
- Oversee cloud infrastructure deployments
- Azure, ensuring successful configuration and validation.
- Utilize IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning and release management.
Skills
- ERCOT is committed to fostering inclusion at all levels of our company.
- It is the cornerstone of our corporate values of accountability, leadership, innovation, trust, and expertise.
Compensation
- $120,000 - $165,000
Visa & Work Authorization
- oyment for all qualified persons without regard to race, sex, medical condition, religion, age, creed, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, sexual orientation, physical or mental disability, ancestry, vet
This listing is sourced directly from ERCOT's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.