Devops Lead

Job Title:

Location: Noida & Bangalore (5 days working from office)

Position Summary:

DevOps Release Management Lead

The right candidate should be passionate about user experience, digital customer journey, software and technology product development, excellent communicator, comfortable with ambiguous environments, and can move fast, bring people and technology together.

He/she can work with multiple Agile SCRUM teams as QA expert. Responsible for co-developing the vision and strategy of the product by collaborating with Product Managers, product owners, Engineering, Architects, R&D leadership. He/she develops and communicates the strategic direction for the software teams. He/she collaborates with user experience team to define intuitive user experience to our users. He/she collaborates with R&D stakeholders to define the non-functional roadmap for the product.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Overseeing the entire software release process, making sure that everything runs smoothly and on schedule.
• Collaborating with development and operations teams to ensure seamless integration between both groups, fostering better communication and cooperation.
• Planning and coordinating software releases, including setting release dates, tracking progress, and resolving any issues that may arise.
• Implementing and maintaining release management tools and processes to automate and streamline release activities.
• Ensuring that proper testing and quality assurance procedures are followed to minimize risks and ensure a high-quality end product.
• Monitoring and managing software deployment, including troubleshooting, and resolving any issues that may arise during the rollout.
• Training and supporting team members in the use of release management tools and best practices, helping to build their knowledge and expertise.
• Continuously evaluating and improving release management processes to stay current with industry trends and best practices.
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders about release plans, schedules, and any changes or issues that may impact the release.
• Ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards and organizational policies in the release management process

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Background in software development or systems administration
• Hands on experience with

  DevOps tools like Azure Pipelines and Jenkins etc

  .,

  cloud platforms, and automation software is crucial.

• Good experience with Container management and deployment like

  Dockers and Kubernetes

• Prior experience of preparing the

  Release Calendar for difference releases after communication with stakeholders

• Experience in creating release

  dashboards in Atlassian JIRA/Confluence or other Wikis.

• Preparation of release management plan and creating workflows in tools like JIRA/Atlassian for approval processes etc.
• Experience in

  managing release on Dev, QA, Staging, UAT, Pre-Prod, Prod and Disaster recovery environments.

• Creating

  Policy setup environments

• Working

  on Knowledge of Terraform

• Working knowledge of Deploying

  Cloud Native Applications

• Experience of working on using

  Code Branching and Merging Strategies

• Experience of setting up communication protocol for updating stakeholders on release update etc.
• Prior experience of working with distributed agile scrum teams.
• Prior experience of handling release management, rollback and disaster recovery plans and having appropriate measures.
• Prior experience working with global clients.

Experience:

• Good experience as a DevOps Engineer and Release Management Professional

Educational Qualification(s):

BE/B.Tech/MCA/M.Tech or equivalent with relevant experience