$130,000 - $190,000 / year + Bonus
JOB SUMMARY
Vertafore is seeking a Senior Manager, Platform Build and Release who is responsible for defining and evolving the company's build, CI/CD, and release management platforms and standards. This role ensures that engineering teams can deliver software reliably, securely, and at high velocity through well-designed pipelines, consistent tooling, and clear operational guardrails. This role works closely with application development teams, site reliability engineering, security, and operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in defining, establishing and maintaining the enterprise strategy and reference implementations for build systems, CI/CD tooling, and pipeline architectures.
- Ensure build and pipeline solutions are scalable, resilient, and maintainable across multiple teams and products.
- Drive consolidation and simplification of build and pipeline tooling where appropriate.
- Own CI/CD standards, policies, and best practices, including:
- Pipeline structure and conventions
- Artifact versioning and promotion strategies
- Security scanning and compliance integration
- Partner with Security and Architecture to embed secure-by-default and compliance-ready practices.
- Define guardrails that balance autonomy and consistency for delivery teams.
- Release orchestration and promotion across environments
- Change management and deployment approvals
- Rollback, rollback automation, and release observability
- Lead the transition toward modern release models (e.g., continuous delivery, progressive delivery) as appropriate for the business.
- Enable product and platform teams through:
- Reusable tooling, templates, and documentation
- Clear onboarding paths for build and release standards
- Consultation and architectural guidance
- Act as a trusted advisor to engineering leaders on delivery and release challenges.
- Drive adoption through influence, clarity, and measurable value, not mandate alone.
- Communicate strategy, progress, and outcomes to senior technology leadership.
Skills & Requirements
Qualifications
- 12+ years of experience in software engineering, SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, or related disciplines
- 5+ years in technical leadership roles, including managing senior engineers or managers
- Deep hands-on experience with:
- Implementing and scaling CI/CD systems
- Pipeline design (Gitlab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins)
- Build systems and artifact management (Sonatype Nexus, various build frameworks)
- Release management and deployment strategies
- Infrastructure as code tools and implementations (Terraform, CDK, Cloud Formation)
- Experience will blue/green deployments, Canary Releases, A/B testing and experiment systems
- Configuration as code technologies (Chef, Puppet, Ansible)
- Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices and architectures
- Proven ability to influence across teams without direct ownership
- Strong communication skills with both technical and executive audiences
Leadership Attributes
- Systems thinker who balances standards with flexibility
- Pragmatic leader focused on outcomes over ideology
- Strong technical credibility with senior engineers
- Collaborative and service-oriented mindset
- Comfortable operating through influence and partnership
Additional Requirements and Details:
- Travel required up to 10% of the time.
- Occasional lifting and/or moving up to 10 pounds.
- Frequent repetitive hand and arm movements required to operate a computer.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision (working on a computer, etc.).
- Frequent sitting and/or standing.
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *Canada Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- Life, AD&D
- Short Term and Long Term Disability
- Pension Plan & Employer Match
- Maternity, Paternity and Parental Leave
- Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP)
- Education Assistance
- Additional programs - Employee Referral and Internal Recognition
Why Vertafore is the place for you: *US Only
- The opportunity to work in a space where modern technology meets a stable and vital industry
- We have a Flexible First work environment! Our North America team members use our offices for collaboration, community and team-building, with members asked to sometimes come into an office and/or travel depending on job responsibilities. Other times, our teams work from home or a similar environment.
- Medical, vision & dental plans
- PPO & high-deductible options
- Health Savings Account & Flexible Spending Accounts Options:
- Health Care FSA
- Dental & Vision FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter FSA
- Life, AD&D (Basic & Supplemental), and Disability
- 401(k) Retirement Savings Plain & Employer Match
- Supplemental Plans - Pet insurance, Hospital Indemnity, and Accident Insurance
- Parental Leave & Adoption Assistance
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Education & Legal Assistance
- Additional programs - Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Referral, Internal Recognition, and Wellness
- Commuter Benefits (Denver)
