IT Software Engineer (Release Manager) | ChicagoPeoria, IL |

Our client is seeking an experienced Release Engineer/Release Manager to support the build and release lifecycle of a modern cloud-based customer-facing application. This role will collaborate with Scrum Teams QA Product Owners Infrastructure teams and Business stakeholders to deliver high-quality releases for global users.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience managing enterprise releases CI/CD pipelines DevOps practices AWS cloud technologies and Agile delivery environments.

Key Responsibilities

Manage and coordinate end-to-end release cycles across development QA UAT and production environments.

Monitor CI/CD pipelines to ensure successful builds and deployments.

Create and manage UAT and production release plans.

Coordinate release readiness activities with QA Infrastructure Product and Business teams.

Facilitate Scrum-of-Scrums meetings and manage release cadence.

Troubleshoot build and deployment issues.

Support DevOps activities and cloud infrastructure operations.

Improve deployment processes automation release quality and delivery timelines.

Qualifications :

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field preferred.

10 years of experience with Bachelors degree.

8 years of experience with Masters degree.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working with multiple Scrum teams.

Experience as Release Manager Scrum Master Program Manager or Project Coordinator.

Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Strong presentation and communication skills.

Ability to support flexible working hours based on release schedules.

Additional Information :

8 years of IT Release Management / Delivery Management experience.

6 years of experience with CI/CD pipelines Git and DevOps tools.

Strong experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies.

Experience with Azure DevOps.

Hands-on AWS experience including:

ECS

EC2

EBS

S3

Glacier

RDS

VPC

Route53

ELB

IAM

CloudFront

CloudFormation

CloudWatch

SQS

SES

Lambda

Strong Python programming experience.

Experience with automated CI/CD and BDD testing frameworks such as Cucumber.

Excellent communication collaboration and stakeholder management skills.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract