Key Roles and Responsibilities:

Release Planning and Coordination:

• Actively drive release planning with development, QA, and operations teams, ensuring alignment to release achievements.

Collaborate with development, QV, and operations teams to plan and coordinate continuous software releases.

Define and implement clear release scope, schedule, and dependencies to ensure timely and smooth deployments.

Create and submit change records as the need arises for process and audit compliance. Facilitation and active participation in Technical Change Advisory and Review boards required.

Involvement with planning, testing, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management.

Supervise all aspects of release lifecycle—from planning to execution—ensuring accountability across teams.

Coordination and active participation end to end during planned downtimes. Active participation in root cause analysis and report out on release outages and active release upgrades

Proactively identify potential blockers and risks, driving timely resolutions.

Maintain strict oversight of change management and actively participate in Technical Change Advisory and Review boards.

Release Execution and Enforcement

Ensure rigorous adherence to change, testing, and deployment policies before approving production releases.

Actively oversee planned downtimes and ensure that releases meet operational reliability standards. Maintain continuous alignment with leadership on release health and readiness, providing detailed impact assessments.

Own and drive root cause analysis (RCA) efforts for any release outages or failures, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Push teams towards achieving higher efficiency and quality through automation and process improvements.

Release Automation & Environment Management:

Champion CI/CD standard methodologies, ensuring efficient, automated deployments via AWS CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.

Be responsible for version control repositories, making sure branching strategies to minimize conflicts and ensure stability.

Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform, Morpheus, or CloudFormation.

Lead various development, testing, staging, and production environments, ensuring consistency and reliability across environments.

Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to handle environments using tools like Morpheus, Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.

Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement

Establish and implement meticulous quality gates in collaboration with QA teams.

Drive continuous improvement initiatives to refine release processes, minimizing defects and deployment risks.

Analyze trends from past releases, identify struggles, and implement measurable improvements.

Stay updated on industry standard processes and emerging technologies to optimize release efficiency.

Communication & Stakeholder Management:

Act as the central point of accountability for release readiness and execution, keeping all collaborators aligned.

Provide real-time transparency into release status, risks, and mitigation plans.

Ensure clear and timely communication of release schedules, changes, and impact assessments.

Incident Management:

We are looking for candidate who can work closely with SRE teams to address any post-release incidents or issues, contributing to rapid resolution and root cause analysis.

Provide immediate report out to leadership with ability to speak to the findings and next steps

Required Qualifications (or equivalent experience)

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or related fields or equivalent experience.
• We are looking for candidate with 5-8 years of validated experience as a DevOps Release Manager or similar role in a fast-paced software development environment.
• Proven understanding of DevOps practices, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and related tools!
• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as AWS CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, or others.
• Hands-on experience with version control systems (AWS Code Commit, Git, SVN) and branching strategies.
• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Morpheus, or similar.
• Validated understanding of Agile methodologies and their application in release management.
• Proven ability to coordinate multi-functional work teams toward task comple Official notification