Senior Release Manager

Description

• Lead the design and evolution of scalable, resilient release management framework for multi-product deployments. Define and architect release schedules and dependency mapping to optimize flow and minimize bottlenecks across environments. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish release criteria and readiness standards aligned with architectural best practices.
• Act as the primary liaison among engineering, QA, product management, and operations teams to coordinate the release process. Provide clear and timely communication to executive and non-technical stakeholders, ensuring transparency on release status, key metrics, and potential risks.
• Collaborate in the architecture and implementation of enhancements to CI/CD pipelines, focusing on modularity, scalability, and automation. Partner with technical teams to design and refine environment management strategies, leveraging infrastructure-as-code and GitOps principles. Lead release retrospectives to identify systemic improvements and drive strategic learning, while tracking key metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, success rates, and mean time to recovery (MTTR), etc.).
• Oversee the integrity of release processes by managing versioning, rollback, and deployment strategies. Develop and maintain clear documentation for release pipelines to ensure traceability and auditability, while driving the adoption of governance standards to embed security, compliance, and change management into pipeline design.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science preferred or equivalent experience.
• Familiarity with scripting languages such as PowerShell and Bash preferred.
• Experience implementing Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) using platforms like Port.io and Backstage to streamline developer workflows and improve service discoverability.
• High school diploma or GED required.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Minimum 7 years of experience in software release management with a focus on Azure DevOps, CI/CD, build and release pipelines, Agile methodology.
• Familiarity with Agile planning tools such as boards, tickets, and test plans - Jira preferred.
• Extensive experience architecting and maintaining scalable, secure, and automated release management pipelines using GitOps tools such as Flux CD and Argo CD, integrated with build systems across C#, Node.js, Python, and PowerShell environments.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in containerization technologies such as Docker and Azure AKS.

Benefits

Training + Development

Interview process

Visa Sponsorship

Security clearance