Release Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

• Coordinate release planning activities with stakeholders from development, QA, product management, and IT operations to ensure alignment with business objectives and release schedules.
• Facilitate the change management process, including assessing the impact of proposed changes, coordinating change approvals, and ensuring adherence to change management policies and procedures.
• Maintain release documentation, including release plans, release notes, deployment instructions, and rollback procedures, to ensure accurate and up-to-date records of release activities.
• Identify and mitigate risks associated with the release process, such as deployment failures, performance issues, and compatibility issues, to minimize disruptions to production systems and services.
• Manage development, testing, staging, and production environments to ensure consistency and stability across different environments.
• Identify opportunities to improve the release process, tools, and practices, and implement best practices and process improvements to increase efficiency, quality, and reliability.
• Implement release automation tools and processes to streamline and standardize release activities, reduce manual effort, and improve release quality and reliability.
• Generate release reports and metrics to track release progress, performance, and compliance with release policies and standards.
• Communicate release status, issues, and risks to stakeholders, including project teams, management, and customers, to ensure transparency and alignment with business goals
• 7+ years of experience as a Java developer with proven record of overseeing large cross-functional projects in a high scale application environment.
• 7+ years of experience with Java, JavaScript, REST, and JSON.
• A demonstrated understanding of web and API platform technologies including microservices, containerization, observability.
• Proficient in release management, software development, or IT operations, with a strong understanding of release processes, methodologies, and tools.
• Expert level project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple release projects simultaneously and prioritize tasks based on business needs and deadlines.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Expert in release management best practices, including version control, configuration management, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Proficient in release management tools such as Jira, GitLab, GitHub, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.
• Familiarity with ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) processes and practices, particularly in the areas of change management and release management