Release management

Job Summary

We are looking for an experienced Release Management Engineer with strong knowledge of release management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), CI/CD techniques, Agile, Scrum, and ITIL processes. The candidate will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing software releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments while ensuring release quality, compliance, and minimal business disruption.

Key Responsibilities

Plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end release activities across multiple environments.

Define release schedules, deployment plans, release calendars, and implementation timelines.

Coordinate with development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and business teams to ensure successful releases.

Manage release readiness reviews, approvals, deployment execution, rollback plans, and post-release validation.

Ensure adherence to SDLC standards, release policies, and change management procedures.

Understand and support CI/CD pipelines to improve build, testing, deployment, and release automation.

Work with tools such as Jenkins, Git, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, or similar platforms.

Facilitate Agile and Scrum practices, including sprint planning, release planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Follow ITIL practices for Change Management, Release Management, Incident Management, and Problem Management.

Assess release risks, dependencies, and potential impacts before production deployment.

Track release progress, manage deployment issues, and coordinate incident resolution during release windows.

Maintain release documentation, deployment checklists, change records, release notes, and audit evidence.

Conduct post-implementation reviews and identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Prepare release status reports, metrics, and stakeholder communications.