Responsible for managing and coordinating application releases, infrastructure maintenance, and deployment activities across non-production and production environments. Oversees end-to-end release processes including planning, scheduling, risk mitigation, dependency management, implementation, and backout strategies to ensure stable and compliant deployments. Collaborates cross-functionally with Development, DevOps, QA, Operations, Architecture, and business teams to support CI/CD initiatives, deployment automation, and enterprise change management standards.
Key responsibilities include administering and troubleshooting build and deployment processes using tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Datadog, and Rundeck; supporting continuous integration and delivery pipelines; coordinating database refreshes and environment checkouts; monitoring environment stability; and ensuring adherence to change management policies and audit requirements. Acts as a primary point of contact for release execution, go-live coordination, deployment validation, and post-release support while driving process improvements, automation, documentation, and DevOps best practices. Provides occasional after-hours support and participates in a rotating 24/7 on-call schedule within a hybrid work environment.
Develop, analyze, and manage Application deployment and infrastructure maintenance plans.
Identify dependencies, mitigate risks and scheduling conflicts.
Supervise progress to implementation plan and design a backout strategy.
Work cross-functionally to help facilitate applications and infrastructure changes to pre and production environments using deployment automation tools.
Secure applications checkout resources and facilitate checkouts in controlled environments.
Monitor/police environment changes and ensure stability and quality.
Ensure Compliance with Enterprise Change Management Guidelines, provide guidance to IT Delivery Teams in establishing discipline around Build Delivery and Release process.
Plan, communicate and coordinate database refresh activities for controlled environments
Create and/or maintain process documentation/workflows, knowledge articles and self-service guidance for applicable IT Services
Work location – Hybrid, work from HQ address as requested by leadership, and ability to work from home.
Base Pay Information
The national base pay range at the end is a good-faith estimate of what Delta Dental may pay for new hires. Actual pay may vary based on Delta Dental’s assessment of the candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities (KSAs), related experience, education, certifications and ability to meet required minimum job qualifications. Other factors impacting pay include prevailing wages in the work location and internal equity.
Pay Grade 21. $80,500 - $174,300
At Delta Dental, we’re behind millions of smiles and counting. For over 68 years, we’ve served our communities by increasing access to affordable, quality care – but that commitment to care extends beyond the people we serve, to the dedicated employees who make those smiles genuine. We've come this far by building programs that offer opportunities for advancement, create meaningful connections, and improve the lives of our employees and their families. Because we know that when we take exceptional care of each other, we can make a positive impact for all.
We champion an inspirational workplace through our commitment to trust, service, excellence and innovation. Joining us means working for a company that offers stability and balance, opportunities for leadership at all levels, and a work environment.
Delta Dental of California, Delta Dental of New York, Inc., Delta Dental of Pennsylvania, and Delta Dental Insurance Company are members, or affiliates of members, of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of 39 Delta Dental companies throughout the country. Together with our affiliate companies, form one of the nation’s largest dental benefits delivery systems, covering over 31 million enrollees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we are members of the Delta Dental Plans Association, a network of companies that provides dental coverage to 80 million people.
Delta Dental provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Delta Dental complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
