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Senior Manager - Release Engineering
CVS Pharmacy INC · 🇺🇸 RI - Woonsocket
Sponsorship verdict
Sponsorship possible
One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 217 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- What CVS Pharmacy INC paid sponsored hires in similar roles3 certified filings for “Manager, Data Engineer” (Data Scientists) in GA: $110k–$162k, median $110k. Most were filed at wage level II (67%) — 2 lottery entries, ≈31% projected selection odds for cap-subject employers. Source: US Department of Labor LCA disclosure data (Oct 2025 – Jun 2026).
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
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Sponsor Radar — CVS Pharmacy INC
The US Department of Labor certified 191 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 217 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
We’re building a world of health around every individual — shaping a more connected, convenient and compassionate health experience. At CVS Health®, you’ll be surrounded by passionate colleagues who care deeply, innovate with purpose, hold ourselves accountable and prioritize safety and quality in everything we do. Join us and be part of something bigger – helping to simplify health care one person, one family and one community at a time. Position Summary : CVS Health is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to oversee Release Engineering for the Pharmacy & Consumer Wellness. Release Engineering owns the safety, consistency, and recoverability of application, platform, infrastructure, and edge changes across CVS Health's pharmacy, retail, and digital technology ecosystem (~9,000 stores, centralized platforms, and edge/dispensing systems). The team defines and enforces the standards, guardrails, gates, and validation logic into pipelines that ride on top of our existing CI/CD and DevX investments, and drives their consistent adoption. Success looks like every engineering team shipping through the same trusted, instrumented release path. Release Engineering partners with SRE, Dev/Engineering, Infrastructure, and Change Management so that every production change is observable, validated, and reversible before it ships, and executes against reliability standards: Production Readiness Reviews (PRR), operational readiness requirements, SLO-based deployment policies, and incident-learning outcomes. Primary Objectives: Change Failure Reduction • Own Change Failure Rate (CFR) as the primary success metric • Reduce deployment-induced incidents through deployment automation, validation, and recovery engineering • Maintain release-to-incident correlation to support postmortems and problem management Deployment Guardrail & Governance Engineering • Define, enhance, operate CI/CD capabilities and deployment automation • Standardize delivery patterns across application, infrastructure, and edge platforms • Improve deployment reliability, consistency, and developer experience Deployment Safety & Validation • Establish automated pre- and post-deployment validation • Integrate synthetic testing, health checks, and observability signals into deployment workflows • Ensure production health is verified before deployment completion Fleet-Scale Deployment Management • Define and enforce ring-based deployment strategies for store, edge, and centralized platforms • Enable progressive delivery, automated promotion gates, and controlled rollout strategies • Minimize blast radius through phased deployment patterns Recovery Engineering • Ensure every deployment has tested rollback or failback capabilities • Improve recovery time for release-related incidents through automation • Enable feature flags, traffic controls, and deployment safety mechanisms Infrastructure Change Reliability • Standardize validation and rollback requirements for high-risk infrastructure changes • Automate post-maintenance verification and health validation • Partner with infrastructure teams to improve change reliability and reduce change-induced incidents Incident & Learning Integration • Provide deployment and change context during major incidents • Support release impact analysis during postmortems • Drive deployment-related improvements from incident learnings and problem records Leadership Responsibilities • Build and develop a high-performing Release Engineering organization • Establish engineering-first delivery practices that prioritize reliability and safety, without adding adoption friction • Champion automation, standardization, and continuous improvement across the software delivery lifecycle • Partner with