Siemens Digital Industries Software is a leading provider of solutions for the design, simulation, and manufacture of products across many different industries. Formula 1 cars, skyscrapers, ships, space exploration vehicles, and many of the objects we see in our daily lives are being conceived and manufactured using our Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software.
Siemens Experience and Platform Engineering organization is seeking a highly proactive and results-driven Cloud DevOps Release Manager to join our complementary team. The ideal candidate will be responsible for ensuring end-to-end accountability for releases, actively carrying out release criteria, and implementing robust processes and guardrails to enhance quality and reliability. As a DevOps Release Manager, you will release products software after completing the testing and deployment stages, and work closely with the application development team, testing team, and production team. You will maintain proper coordination between these teams to update the project related information.
This position drives into overall interpersonal agile transformation and release train engineering activities as a part of the Cloud Operations Programs and Process organization. This includes but is not limited to the function of a Release Manager ensuring all conditions are met in accordance with the change management, test, continuous deployment policies prior to deployment to production environment. This role requires strong leadership, firm decision-making, and a hands-on approach to drive efficiency in deployments while maintaining the highest standards of quality and stability. The Release Manager will collaborate closely with multi-functional teams, including development, QA, security, and operations, to ensure seamless software releases and continuous improvement in release management practices. Seeking a confident individual looking to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment, steering the organization with a proactive and hands on approach.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Release Planning and Coordination:
Collaborate with development, QV, and operations teams to plan and coordinate continuous software releases.
Define and implement clear release scope, schedule, and dependencies to ensure timely and smooth deployments.
Create and submit change records as the need arises for process and audit compliance. Facilitation and active participation in Technical Change Advisory and Review boards required.
Involvement with planning, testing, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management.
Supervise all aspects of release lifecycle—from planning to execution—ensuring accountability across teams.
Coordination and active participation end to end during planned downtimes. Active participation in root cause analysis and report out on release outages and active release upgrades
Proactively identify potential blockers and risks, driving timely resolutions.
Maintain strict oversight of change management and actively participate in Technical Change Advisory and Review boards.
Release Execution and Enforcement
Ensure rigorous adherence to change, testing, and deployment policies before approving production releases.
Actively oversee planned downtimes and ensure that releases meet operational reliability standards. Maintain continuous alignment with leadership on release health and readiness, providing detailed impact assessments.
Own and drive root cause analysis (RCA) efforts for any release outages or failures, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
Push teams towards achieving higher efficiency and quality through automation and process improvements.
Release Automation & Environment Management:
Champion CI/CD standard methodologies, ensuring efficient, automated deployments via AWS CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
Be responsible for version control repositories, making sure branching strategies to minimize conflicts and ensure stability.
Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform, Morpheus, or CloudFormation.
Lead various development, testing, staging, and production environments, ensuring consistency and reliability across environments.
Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to handle environments using tools like Morpheus, Terraform, CloudFormation or similar.
Quality Assurance & Continuous Improvement
Establish and implement meticulous quality gates in collaboration with QA teams.
Drive continuous improvement initiatives to refine release processes, minimizing defects and deployment risks.
Analyze trends from past releases, identify struggles, and implement measurable improvements.
Stay updated on industry standard processes and emerging technologies to optimize release efficiency.
Communication & Stakeholder Management:
Act as the central point of accountability for release readiness and execution, keeping all collaborators aligned.
Provide real-time transparency into release status, risks, and mitigation plans.
Ensure clear and timely communication of release schedules, changes, and impact assessments.
Incident Management:
We are looking for candidate who can work closely with SRE teams to address any post-release incidents or issues, contributing to rapid resolution and root cause analysis.
Provide immediate report out to leadership with ability to speak to the findings and next steps
Required Qualifications (or equivalent experience)
Preferred Qualifications:
We are seeking a candidate with 8-10 years experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (EKS, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes)
Relevant certifications in DevOps or related fields are a plus!
SAFE Agile RTE certification. Scaled Agile SAFE certification
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
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