What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Release Engineer position at ZT Systems?
About The Role
We are seeking an experienced Release Engineer to join our IT Software Development team. In this role, you will coordinate Release Management activities and work closely with both the Infrastructure and Software Development teams. You will ensure timely and high-quality software releases by overseeing development, testing, version control, and release reporting. Additionally, you will contribute to infrastructure automation and application deployment through hands-on design, coding, and testing.
What You Will Do
Base salary is just one component of ZT Systems total rewards philosophy. We take pride in offering a wide range of benefits and perks that appeal to the variety of needs across our diverse employee base. Other rewards may include bonus, paid time off, generous 401k match, tuition reimbursement, wellbeing resources, and more.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
About ZT Systems
At ZT Systems, you’ll get to do work you are proud of alongside smart, passionate people. Every day, there are opportunities to collaborate with the best in the industry to design, build, and deliver impactful solutions to world-class customers. Along the way, you will gain hands-on experience in a face-paced environment that’s challenging, rewarding, and career-defining.
A culture built around our values we work hard and think fast. We view challenges as opportunities—to do better, push harder, and be faster than we were the day before. When we fail, we learn from it and move on together. And when we succeed, we use the momentum to go even further. We create value with everything we do, building the foundation of today—and transforming the future of tomorrow.
Join ZT Systems and help us build technology infrastructure that connects the world.
What We Offer
At ZT Systems, we believe that investing in our people is key to our continued growth and innovation. When you join our team, you’ll gain access to a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package designed to support your well-being, financial security, and professional development—both now and in the future.
Compensation & Financial Security
ZT Group Int’l. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. ZT Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Please be aware that certain positions may require the applicant to either 1) be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
We are seeking an experienced Release Engineer to join our IT Software Development team. In this role, you will coordinate Release Management activities and work closely with both the Infrastructure and Software Development teams. You will ensure timely and high-quality software releases by overseeing development, testing, version control, and release reporting. Additionally, you will contribute to infrastructure automation and application deployment through hands-on design, coding, and testing.
What You Will Do
- Coordinate release activities, including deployment plan execution and checklist validation.
- Plan and perform dependency analysis for both major and maintenance release cycles.
- Identify risks, cross-application dependencies, and downstream impacts for each release.
- Establish, maintain, and communicate the master release schedule.
- Implement efficient procedures for distributing and deploying IT changes to production.
- Design, code, and test infrastructure automation and application deployment solutions.
- Collaborate with Information Security and Systems teams to strengthen CI/CD pipelines with DevSecOps practices, security tools, and standardized controls.
- Analyze DevOps practices, identify gaps, and recommend improvements for continuous integration and delivery.
- Monitor release scope and schedules, provide release status updates and implementation scorecards.
- Consolidate and publish Release Notes for each deployment.
- Ensure compliance with IT processes, including documentation, peer reviews, and required approvals.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field (or equivalent experience).
- Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in Release Management.
- Strong knowledge of SDLC methodologies.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Technical proficiency with SQL, Visual Studio, .NET (C#) and build process tools such as GIT.
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps methodologies.
- 1–2 years of practical experience with at least two modern DevOps/IaC technologies (e.g., Ansible, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation, Terraform).
- Exceptional organizational skills, with the ability to multi-task and manage details effectively.
- Familiarity with Jira or equivalent task and release management tools.
Base salary is just one component of ZT Systems total rewards philosophy. We take pride in offering a wide range of benefits and perks that appeal to the variety of needs across our diverse employee base. Other rewards may include bonus, paid time off, generous 401k match, tuition reimbursement, wellbeing resources, and more.
We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this opportunity but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
About ZT Systems
At ZT Systems, you’ll get to do work you are proud of alongside smart, passionate people. Every day, there are opportunities to collaborate with the best in the industry to design, build, and deliver impactful solutions to world-class customers. Along the way, you will gain hands-on experience in a face-paced environment that’s challenging, rewarding, and career-defining.
A culture built around our values we work hard and think fast. We view challenges as opportunities—to do better, push harder, and be faster than we were the day before. When we fail, we learn from it and move on together. And when we succeed, we use the momentum to go even further. We create value with everything we do, building the foundation of today—and transforming the future of tomorrow.
Join ZT Systems and help us build technology infrastructure that connects the world.
What We Offer
At ZT Systems, we believe that investing in our people is key to our continued growth and innovation. When you join our team, you’ll gain access to a comprehensive and inclusive benefits package designed to support your well-being, financial security, and professional development—both now and in the future.
Compensation & Financial Security
- Competitive base salary
- Performance-based annual bonus eligibility
- 401(k) retirement savings plan with generous company match
- Tuition reimbursement for eligible education programs
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage with access to leading providers
- Company-paid life and disability insurance
- Generous paid time off (PTO) and company-paid holidays
- Parental leave and family care support programs
- Structured training programs and on-the-job learning opportunities
- Matching gifts and volunteer programs to support causes you care about
ZT Group Int’l. is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. ZT Systems provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
Please be aware that certain positions may require the applicant to either 1) be a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful, permanent resident (aka green card holder), (iii) Refugee under 8 U.S.C.
- 1157, or (iv) Asylee under 8 U.S.C.
- 1158, or 2) be eligible to obtain an export control license or license exception from the Bureau of Industry and Science & U.S. Department of Commerce. All offers of employment will be conditional subject to the foregoing.
Salary : $82,500 - $110,000