Release Manager

We are looking for a skilled Release Manager who will join our Release Management department in a key position. The ideal candidate can work with teammates and troubleshoot problems, identify solutions, and assess situations in real-time.

✅ Responsibilities:

✔ Plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the release process, ensuring successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments.

✔ Verify and maintain release notes, deployment plans, and other relevant documentation to ensure all stakeholders are informed and aligned.

✔ Work closely with Operations, Infrastructure, Development, Legal, and Security teams.

✔ ️Build new and improve existing release processes (Jira, Gitlab), integrating business requirements and developer convenience.

✔ Implement, propagate and continuously improve release processes across dozens of development teams.

✅ Our technology stack:

✔ We are working on in-house platform development with Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.

✔ Our infrastructure is on bare metal and on AWS (EC2, EKS).

✔ We use Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.

✔ Gitlab, Gitlab CI and Helm templates for continuous integration.

✅ Requirements:

✔ Leadership and communication skills, ability to lead changes in a fast-growing environment.

✔ Strong understanding of Git, including branching strategies like Git Flow, GitHub Flow, Trunk-based development, and others.

✔ Familiarity with CI/CD practices, and understanding their role in automating and streamlining the release process.

✔ Knowledge of Quality Controls and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments.

✔ Basic experience with Jenkins or Gitlab CI for automating builds and deployments.

✔ Understanding of what Kubernetes is and experience of working with it as a user.

✔ Understanding of microservice architecture principles.

✔ Understanding of databases, hands-on experience with any of relational databases, ability to build queries with SQL.

✅ Nice to have:

✔ Experience in Quality Assurance, with knowledge of testing practices and methodologies.

✔ Experience running and reviewing automated tests, with a focus on ensuring the quality and stability of releases.

✔ Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, or Coralogix for tracking application performance and identifying issues.

✔ Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript.

✔ Experience with Unleash and its webhooks and integration.