Sr DevOps Release Manager

We are seeking an experienced DevOps Manager to take ownership of release management and governance for a major strategic initiative. This role will play a critical part in building a new cloud‑native platform on AWS, ensuring disciplined release processes, robust automation, and high‑quality delivery across environments.

Responsibilities of the Role:

• Establish and enforce release governance, including packaging standards, documentation requirements, and quality controls to ensure consistent and reliable software releases.
• Manage software release candidates (RCs) and design automated deployment pipelines that support frequent, stable, and predictable delivery cycles.
• Collaborate closely with developers and architects to ensure platforms are built for performance, scalability, and resilience.
• Develop, review, and execute test plans and strategies to validate system reliability, scalability, and performance across all environments.
• Own and standardize environment configurations to ensure alignment and consistency across development, testing, staging, and production.
• Automate environment provisioning to ensure setups are reproducible, reliable, and highly available.
• Promote best practices across DevOps, CI/CD, automation, monitoring, and continuous improvement within the engineering organization.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Scrum Master certification is an advantage.
• 8+ years of experience spanning the full software design, development, and release lifecycle.
• 5+ years of hands‑on experience managing CI/CD pipelines and complex environment setups.
• Strong understanding of Agile, Scrum, and Lean methodologies, with proven success scaling agile practices in large enterprise environments.
• Practical experience with continuous integration and delivery, including service virtualization, automated testing, and quality automation.
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible or Chef.
• Familiarity with enterprise deployment tools such as IBM UrbanCode.
• Experience implementing or working with APM monitoring solutions (advantage).
• Experience integrating with enterprise logging platforms (e.g., ELK Stack) (advantage).
• Background in deploying and managing systems in enterprise cloud environments (preferred).