Lead Release Manager

Job Title- Lead Release Manager

Project Location Hybrid in Dallas TX/ Nashville TN

Duration- 6 months contract

Were looking for a highly experienced and hands-on Release Manager to drive the end-to-end release process for our cloud-native products on AWS. Youll be instrumental in ensuring the smooth efficient and high-quality delivery of software to production working closely with multiple engineering and product teams.

AWS INCOGNITO exp must

What Were Looking for in a Candidate:

Experience & Technical Expertise:

• 10Yyears of dedicated experience in Release Management DevOps or a related technical role with significant exposure to software releases.
• Strong understanding of software engineering fundamentals including development lifecycles branching strategies and deployment methodologies.
• 12 years of proven hands-on experience with cloud-native engineering utilizing Function-as-a-Service (FAAs) Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and microservices architectures on AWS.
• Deep expertise in modern software engineering practices and principles including Agile methodologies and DevSecOps with a focus on continuous delivery automation (CI/CD) and managing the full release process from code check-in to production.
• Proficiency with enterprise-level project and release management tools (e.g. Jira Azure DevOps as well as Excel PowerPoint SharePoint) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitLab CI AWS Code Pipeline).
• Familiarity with code quality tools and practices (e.g. SonarQube).
• Experience with AI/ML and Generative AI technologies is a plus.

Leadership & Collaboration:

• Proven strategic thinker with the ability to develop and execute comprehensive release strategies that align with business objectives.
• Exceptional communication skills capable of clearly articulating complex release plans risks and statuses to diverse stakeholders including technical teams product managers and leadership.
• Strong interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to manage complex release schedules interdependencies and changing priorities with precision and adaptability.
• A dependable team player fostering a collaborative environment to ensure seamless coordination across development QA and operations teams.
• Experience engaging and collaborating with cross-functional teams at all organizational levels fostering co-creation and consensus towards successful product launches.

Travel: Ability to travel 0-30% for meeting with clients and leadership meetings.

Expected Responsibilities:

Hands-on Release Management & Automation:

• Actively engage in a hands-on capacity to orchestrate and drive the end-to-end software release lifecycle for cloud products on AWS.
• Develop implement and optimize automated CI/CD pipelines for continuous integration delivery and deployment.
• Manage and monitor all release activities ensuring adherence to quality gates security policies and compliance requirements.
• Coordinate release readiness reviews go/no-go decisions and post-release retrospectives.
• Maintain detailed release documentation including release notes deployment plans and rollback procedures.

Coordination & Risk Mitigation:

• Drive coordination and communication across development QA operations and product teams to ensure all parties are aligned on release schedules and dependencies.
• Proactively identify assess and mitigate release risks and issues developing contingency plans to ensure successful deployments.
• Facilitate effective communication channels to provide clear timely updates on release progress status and any potential blockers.
• Oversee project delivery by third-party partners as it pertains to release readiness and deployment.

Process Improvement & Strategic Input:

• Continuously evaluate and improve release processes tools and methodologies to enhance efficiency speed and reliability.
• Contribute to the strategic planning of future release cycles advocating for best practices in continuous delivery and DevSecOps.
• Analyze release metrics and data to identify trends performance and areas for ongoing optimization.