Description
Release Management Lead
Job Title: Release Management Lead
Company: Direct IT Recruiting Inc.
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Status: 6 Month Contract
Job Category: Software Release Management, Configuration Management
Career Level: Senior
Work Experience: 5+ years of release management, configuration management, ITIL, ServiceNow
Industry: Financial
DESCRIPTION:
Seeking a release management lead in support of assigned projects. Release Management responsibilities include creating release strategies, creating and maintaining detailed deployment plans, overseeing release implementations and coordinating activities for support teams. Environment Management responsibilities include supporting project environments, managing resolution of environment issues, coordinating environment maintenance activities and documenting environment state diagrams and configurations.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Excellent communication skills.
- Significant knowledge of Release Management practices and processes gained from hands-on roles on projects and application support teams.
- Working technical knowledge of database, Middleware and application configuration concepts.
- Ability to make judgment calls on decision making and escalations, able to prioritize, communicate, negotiate, solve problems and manage issues.
- Working knowledge of Software Release Management, Configuration Management best practices in an enterprise environment.
- Candidate must be able to work independently and as part of a team with minimal supervision.
- Knowledge of Cash Systems implementations (an asset)
- Knowledge of E-Mail migration conversions (an asset)