Release Manager

PURPOSE

• Under limited guidance, delivers new or changed services successfully into a production environment within the required timescales and with minimal disruption to existing services.
• Collaborates with other release managers, architects, development, and product support staff to manage the dependencies between configuration items within a release and oversee the promotion of the release from test to production.
• Document and manage a comprehensive Implementation Plan for each release, complete with back out plans.
• Adhere to the defined Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) procedures and to the Standard IT operating Procedures (SOP).

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Responsible for collaborating with system engineering/product architects and identifying dependencies, both logical and technical.
• Collaborate with Project Management to define a release schedule for all components under management, maintain a forward schedule of changes.
• Work with Project Management and deployment/support staff to ensure that necessary infrastructure and middleware upgrades are integrated into the planned release schedule.
• Proactively establish the end-to-end-to-end activities for the deployment of a software release (via Implementation Plan), inclusive of all plans necessary for back-out
• Responsible for ensuring that all Implementation Plans are consistent with defined Release Services Processes and are repeatable.
• Conduct Post-Deployment Analysis of all implementations and reporting of established metrics
• Participate in Continual Service Improvement (CSI) efforts for all Release Services Process and Procedures

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• 2-4 years of experience in Release management
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong Problem Solving and Critical Thinking Skills
• Technical Solution Analysis
• Understanding of Multi-Tiered application architecture
• Must possess the technical skills to perform the job requirements
• Understanding of automation processes and tools.

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