Head of Release and Deployment Management

In a nutshell

As a Head of Release and Deployment Management you will be accountable for the safe predictable and scalable delivery of changes across a growing portfolio of GSC IT Solutions. Your role will be key in governing the end-to-end Release lifecycle across more than 500 Production instances in target ensuring that IT Applications infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Releases reach Production securely and without disruption to Business Operations. Combining technical ownership operational leadership and cross-functional coordination your role will be critical to service continuity deployment quality regulatory compliance and the organisation ability to deliver change at scale.

Where will you be based and what business will you support

Based in Katowice Poland; you will join a globally distributed team in the Food and Environment Testing. 

How can you help us

You will work on the following areas:

Release & Deployment Execution to:

• Execute and manage end-to-end deployments across non-production and production environments.
• Maintain and optimise deployment pipelines technical configurations and automation scripts.
• Actively troubleshoot deployment failures analyse root causes and have fixes tested and implemented.
• Ensure all Releases meet quality security and operational standards.

Technical Ownership to:

• Own deployment tooling (CI/CD pipelines Release orchestration tools).
• Raise new requirements to the Automation team test and follow-up on their deliveries to ensure best-in-class tooling for the Release team.
• Ensure technical pre-requisites are implemented and validated before any Release deployment as per Release Notes.
• Optimise technical configurations maintenance and maintainability.
• Participate in incident resolution related to deployments and technical configuration.

Coordination & Governance to:

• Coordinate Release schedules and dependencies across multiple teams.
• Ensure compliance with ITIL Change Management process.
• Drive clear communication between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks unblock proactively challenging situations with Product teams or Business stakeholders.

Continuous Improvement to:

• Identify and implement improvements in deployment processes automation and tooling.
• Improve cost efficiency of the team looking at tooling performance scalability and reliability.
• Contribute to standardisation across a large and growing IT Applications landscape.
• Promote DevOps best practices and automation-first mindset.
• Enhance and document Release & Deployment processes and evangelise Business representatives.

Qualifications :

Are you our kind of extraordinary

You have:

• A Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Management or equivalent experience. 
• 810 years of experience in Release engineering deployment management or DevOps-oriented roles
• Proven experience in hands-on deployment execution and troubleshooting.
• Leadership experience working in complex international large-scale IT ecosystems.
• Strong practical knowledge in several of the following areas:
• • Cloud Platform: Microsoft Azure
  • CI/CD & Deployment Tools: Azure DevOps Pipelines Octopus Deploy Terraform Cloud
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (or equivalent)
  • ITSM Tools: ServiceNow BMC Helix Jira
  • Monitoring & Observability: Grafana (or equivalent)

You are:

• A doer not only a coordinator.
• Able to diagnose issues quickly and fix them.
• Driven to automate optimise and scale.
• Organised structured adaptable in complex environments.
• A good blend of technical process and people management skills.

Additional Information :

What do we offer

• Stable employment - a company that is a leader in its field.
• Package of necessary tools for work - phone laptop.
• Opportunities for development.
• Work in an international company.
• Work in hybrid mode - 4 days of work from the office each week.

We support your development! Do you feel like you dont match 100% of the requirements Dont hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity! As an Equal Opportunity Employer the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression race nationality age religion sexual orientation disability and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Find out more on our Careers page: description:Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries to make life and our environment safer healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the water you drink to the medicines you rely on Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food environment pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology forensics advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics and in the support of clinical studies as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In under 40 years Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes France to over 65000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1000 independent companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety identity composition authenticity origin traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025 and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time