Job Title: Sr. Release Manager (DevOps Background)
Location: Dallas, TX (Day 1 onsite)
Duration: 12+ Months
Responsibilities:
· Building reports based on software adoption on BI tools.
· Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules.
· Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components
· Managing relationships working on interrelated processes
· Communicating crucial release plans and changes
· Coordinating processes between different teams (possibly in various locations)
· Communicating necessary release details to business teams
· Managing, planning, and negotiating release activities
· Initiating and overseeing progressive release processes
· Coordinating enterprise release content and efforts based on OS updates and third-party apps.
· Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans.
· Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
· Maintaining release schedules for every core service and ensuring it aligns with major vendors and other stakeholders.
· Working with release engineers to comprehend code merges and branch ramifications.
· Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution.
· Developing automation and release management tools along with scripts necessary for the construction, continuous integration, and deployment of software release
· Researching new software development and the best methods and techniques for managing configurations regarding a business’s existing needs
· Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations.
· Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release.
· Initiating and overseeing the development of technical guides and training for external functionality
· Managing the development of deliverables into production environments
· Validating release notes
· Deployment management of deliverables to the test environment particularly guaranteeing that the external dependent items are available during the test runtime
Qualifications:
· Excellent programming skills and experience
· Ability to handle software infrastructure management & configuration management
· A computer science degree or a similar discipline
· A two to six-year experience in using project or release management tools
· An expert understanding of software development lifecycle
· Ex lmcellent written and verbal communication skills
· Excellent analytical skills
· Structured thinking
· Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion
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