Release Engineer, Warehouse Transformation

Cardinal Health

Release Engineer leading release management activities on critical warehouse transformation initiatives. Collaborating with cross-functional teams at Cardinal Health to ensure delivery quality and efficiency.

Posted 5/8/2026full-timeDublin • Ohio • 🇺🇸 United StatesMid-LevelSenior💰 $94,900 - $135,600 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

CloudGo

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead iteration and release management ceremonies, including release planning, readiness reviews, and post‑release communications.
Develop, maintain, and govern an integrated release calendar, ensuring alignment across teams, platforms, environments, and business priorities.
Coordinate with Solution Owners, Scrum Masters, Engineering, Testing, SRE, and Operations to align scope, sequencing, dependencies, and deployment timelines.
Partner closely with the Cutover Lead to align release plans with cutover strategies, mock cutovers, go‑live windows, rollback approaches, and deployment freezes.
Provide release readiness inputs (code, environment, testing, deployment validation) to support cutover governance, Go/No‑Go decisions, and execution runbooks.
Collaborate with Release Managers from other teams and platforms to synchronize cross‑application releases, manage shared dependencies, and ensure end‑to‑end business readiness.
Apply and guide branching, versioning, and release strategies aligned with GitHub workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
Identify, document, and actively manage release risks, issues, and dependencies through RAID logs and mitigation planning.
Communicate release status, impacts, and outcomes effectively to technical and non‑technical stakeholders.
Leverage AI‑assisted tools to aggregate delivery data (e.g., Jira, pipelines, test results), generate release artifacts, identify risk signals, and improve decision quality.
Continuously assess and improve release processes through automation, standardization, metrics, and best‑practice adoption.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in Release Engineering preferred or Release Management within Agile and DevOps delivery environments preferred.
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or a related field preferred.
Strong experience with Jira and Confluence for planning, dependency management, tracking, and reporting.
Demonstrated expertise in DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, and modern branching and release strategies.
Experience working within cloud‑based and enterprise‑scale engineering ecosystems.
Proven ability to use AI‑assisted techniques to support release analysis, artifact creation, risk identification, and delivery insights.
Strong communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, actionable messages.
Ability to operate effectively in cross‑functional, geographically distributed teams.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, dental and vision coverage
Paid time off plan
Health savings account (HSA)
401k savings plan
Access to wages before pay day with myFlexPay
Flexible spending accounts (FSAs)
Short- and long-term disability coverage
Work-Life resources
Paid parental leave
Healthy lifestyle programs

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Hard Skills & Tools

Release EngineeringRelease ManagementAgileDevOpsCI/CD pipelinesGitHubBranching strategiesVersioning strategiesRisk managementAutomation

Soft Skills

CommunicationCollaborationCross-functional teamworkProblem-solvingStakeholder managementAdaptabilityLeadershipOrganizational skillsDecision-makingAnalytical thinking

Certifications

Bachelor’s degree in computer scienceBachelor’s degree in EngineeringRelated field degree