Technical Release Manager

Hiring: Senior Release Manager

Role: Senior Release Manager

Onsite - Seattle, WA

Focus: Enterprise Release Management | DevOps | CI/CD | Change Management

We are looking for an experienced Senior Release Manager to lead the planning, coordination, governance, and execution of enterprise application and platform releases. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in release lifecycle management, CI/CD pipelines, DevOps, deployment coordination, risk mitigation, and stakeholder management .

This role requires a hands-on leader who can coordinate cross-functional teams, manage complex deployments, minimize production risks, and continuously improve release quality and delivery efficiency.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle for enterprise applications, platforms, and services.
• Develop and maintain release calendars, deployment schedules, and release roadmaps.
• Coordinate release activities across Development, QA, Infrastructure, Security, Operations, and Business teams.
• Manage release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and production deployment activities.
• Establish and enforce release management processes, governance standards, and controls.
• Coordinate with Change Management teams to ensure compliance with organizational policies.
• Assess release risks, dependencies, business impacts, and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain release plans, deployment procedures, rollback plans, and approval documentation.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Engineering teams to optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation .
• Coordinate deployments across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Ensure environment readiness, application versioning, and deployment sequencing.
• Lead production release calls and coordinate incident response during critical deployments.
• Conduct post-release reviews, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning.
• Communicate release status, timelines, risks, and dependencies to leadership and stakeholders.
• Define and track release management KPIs and operational metrics.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to increase deployment efficiency and reduce release failures.
• Explore automation and AI-driven tools to improve release planning, monitoring, and reporting.

✅ Required Skills

• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Program Management, DevOps, IT Operations, or Software Delivery.
• Enterprise application release planning and execution.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) .
• Release governance, change management, and deployment controls.
• Experience with CI/CD tools , including:
• Azure DevOps
• Jenkins
• GitHub Actions
• GitLab CI/CD
• Strong knowledge of Agile and DevOps delivery practices.
• Experience coordinating complex deployments across multiple teams and environments.
• Knowledge of IT Service Management (ITSM) processes.
• Experience with release risk assessment, incident management, and post-release support.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS and Azure .
• Experience with Jira, Azure DevOps, ServiceNow, and Confluence.
• Strong stakeholder communication and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Excellent organizational, analytical, and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and time-sensitive releases.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

⭐ Preferred Skills

• Experience supporting large-scale enterprise digital transformation programs.
• Knowledge of Agile, Scrum, SAFe, and DevOps methodologies .
• Experience with automated deployment and release orchestration tools.
• ITIL, SAFe, PMP, Scrum Master, or Release Management certifications .
• Experience managing releases in cloud-native and microservices environments.
• Experience with distributed application architectures.
• Familiarity with release automation and AI-driven monitoring/reporting tools.
• Experience defining release KPIs, quality metrics, and operational dashboards.