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Build & Release Support Engineer – CI/CD  While this position is not currently open, we are interviewing strong candidates for upcoming opportunities on this team. Location: Remote | Time Zone: (US, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico) (8AM–5PM Pacific) About Virtasant Virtasant is a global technology services company delivering large-scale cloud, data, and engineering solutions across 130+ countries. We partner with some of the world’s largest organizations to help them build, operate, and scale internal platforms used by tens of thousands of engineers. For this role, you will be supporting one of the most advanced internal developer platforms in the world, powering products used by hundreds of millions of people. The problems you will solve are deep, complex, and essential to keeping a global-scale organization moving. About Virtasant Freedom to Grow. Power to Deliver. At Virtasant, talented people do their best work in an environment built on trust, autonomy, and continuous learning. With team members in 130+ countries , we are a remote-first, proudly diverse organization focused on meaningful work and real impact. Role Overview The Build & Release Support Engineer provides high-impact technical support for the customer’s build, release, and CI/CD systems , which every developer depends on to ship software. This role is deeply developer-facing and centers on build pipelines, software supply chain workflows, and release tooling . You will help engineers resolve blockers across tools like Maven, Java build systems, Docker, Spinnaker, Artifactory, and Jenkins. Success depends on strong troubleshooting skills, clear communication, and the ability to manage multiple threads and tickets in parallel. You will be the front line, ensuring developers can deliver reliably, safely, and at high velocity. Business Outcome Become a deep expert in the customer’s build and release ecosystem and deliver fast, accurate support across Slack and tickets. Your work will maintain high developer velocity and minimize disruption across global engineering teams. 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 Core Work Units 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 High-Quality Work — what top performance looks like 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 inquirie