Senior DevOps Engineer - Build / Environment Manager

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      "text": "How You Will Contribute",
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font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;</p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 4pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">&nbsp;</p>\n<h2 style=\"margin: 12pt 0in 6pt; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: #1e3a5f;\">Release Readiness &amp; Operational Guardrails</h2>\n<ul style=\"margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 3.0pt;\">\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Own or steward the release management function, acting as a go/no-go checkpoint to ensure required testing has occurred, stakeholder sign-offs are complete, and risks are clearly surfaced</li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Participate in production incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident learning</li>\n<li style=\"margin: 0in 0in 3pt 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;\">Construct a resilient ecosystem capable of quickly restoring services, and participate in developing the disaster recovery playbook for Be The People</li>\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 4pt; 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