Description
Release Manager
Currently one of my multinational clients is looking for a Release Manager who enjoys travelling and would like to joint their team in Gdynia, Poland for a few months and then go to work with their team in the beautiful city of Tallinn in Estonia.
The successful Release Manager will have the following skills and experience:
- Prior experience of having worked as an Release Manager in other financial sector organizations
- Hands-on experience on Release and Deployment process.
- Good Knowledge of Change and Release management process.
- Should be able to define Release strategy by understanding IT landscape of the customer.
- Release dashboard for management review meetings which should provide clear picture of Weekly/Monthly releases, resources utilization etc.
- Should be able to define process improvements that should optimize the number of releases, lowered risk and maintained quality, functionality and time to market.
- Lead cross-functional team to support each Release project plan and post Release/Change review.
- Participate in CAB (Change Advisory Board) meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks
- Participate in Incident Management calls to manage post release issues/outages.
- Advanced knowledge of software development life cycle
- Project Management experience
Secondary Skills:
- Knowledge of JIRA, Service Now tools or other tools to track the tickets.
- Ability to handle multiple releases at one time without letting any downtime happen.
- Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.
- Knowledge of build and deployment tools like Jenkins, Microsoft Visual Studio, Unix, Oracle etc.
- Knowledge of Agile/DevOps process.
- Has the aptitude, ability and motivation to provide coaching and mentoring to Release Management personnel and to IT functional managers interfacing with the process
- Ability to influence and negotiate with co-workers who are not direct reports
Additional skill:
- ITIL Foundation certification. Preferably ITIL Service Manager Certification
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