Release Train Engineer

Salary: £75,000 - 75,000 per year

Requirements:

• Proven experience performing RTE-like responsibilities in a large-scale agile environment
• Strong working knowledge of Jira, including workflow management and reporting
• Understanding of Git / Bitbucket workflows and pull request governance
• Understanding of Git / Bitbucket branching strategies
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to manage complex, multi-team delivery
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, comfortable engaging with engineers, PMs, and customers
• Positive, delivery-focused mindset with a bias toward flow and production delivery
• Experience operating within SAFe Agile Release Trains
• Experience in regulated or controlled delivery environments
• Familiarity with release governance, change control, and multi-environment delivery
• Familiarity with cloud technologies and IaC
• Familiarity with software development (Java)
• Familiarity with databases
• Familiarity with Unix/Linux operational skills

Responsibilities:

• Act as the Release Train Engineer for the Agile Release Train, facilitating execution and continuous improvement
• Serve as PI Master of Ceremonies, owning the preparation, facilitation, and follow-up of PI Planning events
• Work closely with Product Managers to ensure Features, Enablers, and supporting scope are correctly captured and maintained in Jira
• Coordinate with PMs to align priorities and respond to customer needs and dependencies
• Engage with customer stakeholders on PI priorities, scope, and sequencing
• Own and maintain the PI agenda, authoring and coordinating slide content to guide PI sessions
• Schedule and facilitate PI events, primarily virtual, ensuring effective participation and outcomes
• Produce PI-level reports, including outcomes from Multi RFC PI Planning, ensuring visibility of commitments and risks
• Analyse PI trends such as scope creep and velocity, working with PMs and teams to understand causes and drive corrective actions
• Lead Inspect & Adapt sessions, postmortems, and retrospectives
• Author and coordinate retrospective slide packs, working with teams to capture learning
• Schedule, record, and track lessons learned and improvement actions across PIs
• Own and manage release scope, defining and enforcing how scope is added to, removed from, or adjusted within a release
• Verify all stakeholders are aligned before scope is committed to a release
• Work with Engineering to clarify which release branch is the origin for each change
• Reconcile PI commitments against release plans, ensuring alignment between planning and execution
• Communicate and manage scope changes transparently across the ART
• Maintain a strong delivery mindset with a clear objective to push work into production as quickly and safely as possible
• Author customer-facing scope and release documentation as required
• Own the Release & Activities Environment Schedule across all environments
• Coordinate sequencing of releases and activities to minimise contention and delivery risk
• Ensure environment usage supports PI and release commitments
• Work with PMs to secure time on the environments in support of newly contracted work in far-future dates
• Act as Configuration Manager, maintaining strict control over what is deployed into each environment
• Ensure environments are protected from uncontrolled or unauthorised change
• Bring changes through appropriate governance forums
• Work closely with Engineering teams and the TIP Manager to coordinate deployments and cutovers
• Own and manage internal build numbering and versioning standards
• Assign internal build numbers in line with agreed conventions
• Act as gatekeeper for all pull requests into release branches, ensuring peer reviews, static code analysis, scope approval, standards compliance, and conflict resolution are complete
• Merge release branches back into the main branch, working with Engineers for conflict resolution
• Verify Jira items are in the correct workflow states prior to merge
• Conduct builds into environments and verify that the correct build is deployed
• Author internal build notes and customer-facing release notes
• Ensure Jira hygiene prior to release cut, including correct links, states, merged code, and readiness gaps
• Work with teams to resolve items still in peer review or non-release-ready states
• Ensure Jira workflows are applied consistently across the ART

Technologies:

• BitBucket
• Cloud
• Flow
• Git
• Support
• JIRA
• Java
• Linux
• Unix
• AI
• DevOps
• Machine Learning
• Security

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We are Leidos UK & Europe, and we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering, and science. This Release Train Engineer role is based in Farnborough, with flexibility to work from home depending on business demands, and offers a salary of £61,500 - £78,800. We provide a collaborative culture, meaningful and engaging careers, flexible working arrangements, and a reward scheme that includes a contributory pension scheme, private medical insurance, 33 days of annual leave including public and privilege holidays, flexible benefits, and flexi-time working. We are committed to diversity and inclusion, and we support career development through technical academies, career rotations, and development plans.

last updated 37 week of 2026