Virtasant
Future openings- Build & Release Support Engineer| CI/CD
Remote DevOps role with clear candidate location fit.
PostedJun 12, 2026
Eligible countries1 accepted country
Seniority signalMiddle
Work settingRemote
Accepted candidate locations
USA
Role overview
Future openings- Build & Release Support Engineer| CI/CD
Requirements and responsibilities
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Success Measures
- Healthy volume of threads and tickets handled with high-quality outcomes
- Consistent achievement of time-based SLAs
- High customer satisfaction through surveys
- Accurate classification of issue type, severity, and patterns
What Will Be True When You Succeed
- Developers ship faster with fewer build and release blockers
- CI/CD and software supply chain tooling become more reliable and more usable
- Escalations decrease due to strong frontline troubleshooting
1. Frontline Support for Build & Release Systems
- Manage Slack threads and tickets (roughly 50/50)
- Triage build failures, broken pipelines, dependency issues, and configuration errors
- Provide fast, accurate context before escalating
- Handle multiple interactions in parallel without losing track
2. Deep-Dive Troubleshooting & Incident Support
- Diagnose complex build, packaging, or artifact problems independently
- Investigate issues involving Maven builds, Java compilation, Docker images, Artifactory repos, Jenkins jobs, and Spinnaker pipelines
- Provide structured guidance throughout incidents
3. Escalation Management
- Complete a thorough analysis before escalating
- Gather all required details upfront to reduce back-and-forth
- Produce clean, high-quality escalation tickets that downstream teams can act on immediately
4. Documentation & Knowledge Development
- Maintain and refine FAQs and internal documentation
- Create problem–solution one-pagers for recurring issues
- Document newly solved problems instinctively and thoroughly
Frontline Support
- Quickly identifies whether the issue is build-related, config-related, or infra-related
- Moves smoothly from triage to deeper analysis
- Juggles multiple developer inquiries without missing follow-ups
Deep-Dive & Incident Support
- Resolves complex pipeline or build issues without escalation
- Coordinates multi-user incidents involving large build failures
- Communicates clearly during investigation, root-cause analysis, and resolution
Escalations
- Only escalates after a thorough investigation
- Provides complete logs, reproduction steps, build metadata, and context
- Saves downstream engineers time with clean, accurate handoffs
Documentation
- Documentation is so clear that users avoid opening tickets
- Proactively updates and refines materials for clarity and accuracy
- Quickly turns real-world issues into reusable knowledge
Typical Day / Work Patterns
- ~50% Slack support, ~50% ticket handling
- Documentation and PRs during low ticket volume periods
- Weekly team meeting to review escalated tickets
- High rate of context switching and parallel issue management
Non-Negotiable Skills
- Git proficiency
- CI/CD tooling expertise (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.)
- Build & Release engineering fundamentals
- Maven and Java build tooling
- Understanding of software supply chain lifecycle
- Comfort supporting Artifact repositories (Artifactory, Nexus, etc.)
- Experience with Spinnaker or similar deployment orchestration
- Strong troubleshooting ability
- Clear written and spoken communication
- SDLC understanding
- Unix command-line proficiency
- Linux command-line proficiency
- Scripting (Python/Bash)
- Container knowledge (Docker/Kubernetes)
Nice-to-Haves
- Monitoring tools (Prometheus/Grafana)
- Prior SRE experience
Minimum Qualifications
- 2–5 years in Build/Release Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or software development
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Clear communication skills
- Strong linux skills, scripting, Git, and containers
- Solid Linux/Unix experience
- Experience with build tools (Maven/Gradle), containers, and artifact management systems
- Disqualifiers: no CI/CD experience, poor communication
What You’ll Love
- Constant learning and rapid skill growth
- Hands-on technical problem solving
- Directly unblocking developers across a global organization
What May Be Challenging
- High context switching
- Repetitive problem patterns
- Pressure from supporting high-visibility systems
Differentiation: Industry
- Remote-first, trust-based culture
- Global team across 130+ countries
- High autonomy and respect for your time
- Exposure across multiple clients and modern systems
- Meaningful, impactful technical challenges
Differentiation: Internal
- Supports the highest-visibility set of services at the customer
- More direct developer-facing work than similar Virtasant roles• Deep specialization in CI/CD rather than broad platform coverage
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