Release Manager

About Eurofins

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and the environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins works with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate. Eurofins is a global leader in food, environmental, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in AgroScience CRO services. It is also one of the global independent market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, discovery pharmacology, forensics, CDMO, advanced material sciences and in the support of clinical studies.

In over just 35 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to 62,000 staff across a network of over 1,000 independent companies in 61 countries, operating 900 laboratories. Performing over 450 million tests every year, Eurofins offers a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products, as well as providing innovative clinical diagnostic testing services, as one of the leading global emerging players in specialized clinical diagnostics testing.

Eurofins is one of the fastest growing listed European companies with a listing on the French stock exchange since 1997. 

Eurofins IT Solutions India Pvt Ltd (EITSI) is a fully owned subsidiary of Eurofins and functions as a Global Software Delivery Center exclusively catering to Eurofins Global IT business needs. The code shipped out of EITSI impacts the global network of Eurofins labs and services.

The primary focus at EITSI is to develop the next generation LIMS (Lab Information Management system), Customer portals, e-commerce solutions, ERP/CRM system, Mobile Apps & other B2B platforms for various Eurofins Laboratories and businesses. Young and dynamic, we have a rich culture, and we offer fulfilling careers.

SUMMARY OF POSITION AND OBJECTIVES:

The Release Manager role will be responsible for deploying builds across the environment, on-boarding new environment, handling transversal projects and create release management related document and share release plan with the stakeholders

POSITION & OBJECTIVES: 

Job description:

• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality
• Facilitate release activities across all releases, mainly with ensuring quality, timely deployments across environments
• Maintains the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates
• Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.
• Conduct Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews with stakeholders
• Produce Deployment, Run Books and Implementation Plans
• Participate in CAB meetings to present Production changes (RFCs)
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.
• Weekly Release Reporting with Program release manager.
• Own and continually improve the release process by documenting release issues and developing plans to improve processes, able to recommend continuous improvements viz: automation.
• Comfortable in interacting with people across hierarchical levels for smooth project execution. Enjoys managing complex projects involving challenges.

EVOLUTION: 

What we offer:

• A launch pad into various senior management opportunities – within the many business lines of Eurofins globally – or into the management hierarchy in our different corporate functions.
• The opportunity to grow your project management skills in a demanding, fast-growing organization.
• A chance to become part of a highly motivated international team of professionals.

In a fast-growing group, successful leaders are frequently being offered increased areas of responsibility (subject to geographic mobility).

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Profile description:

Aspiring to be a part of the Release management team that is tasked to end to end release management.

Requirements:

• Understanding of Continuous Delivery and Continuous Integration (CD/CI) pipelines
• Good understanding of cloud deployment, preferably Azure and Agile practice
• Knowledge on Deployment tool like Octopus
• Knowledge on MS Project, Excel-Macros
• Document Management for adhere to Audit Compliance process is an added advantage
• 3 to 4 years of relevant release and deployment management experience
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams towards task completion
• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills
• Strong in troubleshooting and organizational skills and ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.

Desired Technical Stack:

• Platforms : Windows, Linux.
• Database : MSSQL
• Ticketing Tools: Service now
• Cloud Environment :  MS Azure
• CI and Build Deployment Tools :  Octopus Deploy
• Version Control Tool : Azure Devops
• Monitoring tools : Grafana