Release Manager - CI/CD Pipeline (8-20 yrs)

Key Responsibilities :

Release Planning and Coordination :

- Develop and maintain a release calendar, coordinating with product, engineering, and operations teams to plan, schedule, and execute releases.

- Facilitate release readiness reviews, including risk assessments, quality assurance sign-offs, and stakeholder approvals.

Deployment Management :

- Oversee deployment processes, ensuring they adhere to best practices for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD).

- Manage the implementation of new releases into production, ensuring minimal disruption to customers and adherence to service-level agreements.

Communication and Collaboration :

- Act as the central point of contact for release activities, providing regular updates to stakeholders and resolving conflicts.

- Collaborate with engineering, product management, QA, and support teams to address challenges, resolve blockers, and mitigate risks.

Process Improvement :

- Continuously evaluate and refine the release process to improve efficiency, reliability, and scalability.

- Implement tools and practices that enhance automation, monitoring, and reporting within the release pipeline.

Incident Management :

- Ensure rollback procedures and contingency plans are in place to address issues during or after a release.

- Lead post-release reviews to document lessons learned and drive corrective actions.

Compliance and Documentation :

- Ensure release management processes comply with industry regulations and company policies.

- Maintain detailed documentation of release plans, configurations, and decisions to support transparency and auditability.

Qualifications :

Required :

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field.

- Proven experience in release management, project management, or software engineering, preferably in a SaaS environment.

- Solid understanding of agile software development methodologies.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines and tools such as Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, or Azure DevOps.

- Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

- Experience with security testing best practices (SAST, DAST, OWASP, Vulnerability) and tools including SonarQube, Veracode, Zap etc. and implement security gates in delivery pipelines.

- Strong organizational and time-management abilities.

- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills.

- Analytical and problem-solving mindset, with attention to detail.

- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.

- Leadership skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.

Preferred :

- Familiarity with security and compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA).

- Certification in ITIL, Agile, or DevOps practices.

- Experience with monitoring tools (e.g., New Relic, Datadog) and incident management platforms (e.g., PagerDuty).