Immediate Hiring _ Release Manager/Change Manager_Pune ( Viman Nagar )

Job Title:

Key Responsibilities

1. Release Planning & Governance

• Own and manage the

  end-to-end release calendar

   for AEM, NextJs and NodeJs based projects.
• Conduct

  release readiness reviews

  , stakeholder approvals, and production deployment sign-offs.
• Establish clear

  Go/No-Go criteria

   and communicate deployment status to all stakeholders.
• Track release metrics: deployment frequency, success rate, rollback count, and post-release defects.

2. DevOps Team Leadership

• Lead and mentor a

  12-member DevOps team

   responsible for environment management, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment automation.
• Drive performance goals, conduct regular reviews, and build a culture of ownership and accountability.
• Prioritize and allocate tasks to the team and track to closures without any SLA breaches.

3. CI/CD & Automation

• Oversee build and deployment pipelines on

  GitHub Actions / Jenkins / Azure DevOps

  .
• Ensure consistent, automated, and version-controlled deployments for AEM, NextJs and NodeJS components.
• Integrate

  static code analysis, vulnerability scanning, and test automation

   into the CI/CD process.
• Continuously improve deployment velocity and reduce manual interventions.

4. Environment & Cloud Management

• Ensure environment consistency across

  prod and non-prod environments

  .
• Coordinate provisioning and scaling of AWS resources (

  EC2, S3, CloudFront, RDS, Lambda, Route 53, etc.

  ).
• Manage integration with

  Akamai/CDN, New Relic, and Splunk

   for performance and monitoring.
• Implement effective

  DR

  strategies, backup policies, and incident response

   procedures.

5. Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work closely with

  Product Owners, QA leads, and Architects

   to plan and prioritize releases.
• Ensure cross-functional alignment across

  Tech, QA and business

   teams.
• Serve as the primary communication channel during release windows and post-release support.

6. Risk & Incident Management

• Anticipate risks related to overlapping releases or dependencies.
• Define and maintain

  rollback plans and contingency procedures

  .
• Lead

  war rooms and RCA discussions

   for failed or delayed deployments.
• Drive continuous improvement based on RCA learnings.

Required Skills & Experience

• Atleast 3 years of experience in Release Management/ Change Management.
• Proven experience

  leading a mid-sized DevOps or Release team (1015 members)

  .
• Strong understanding of

  Agile, ITIL, and release governance frameworks

  .
• Ability to manage

  multiple releases per week

   with zero downtime.
• Excellent planning, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors / Masters degree in Engineering

• ITIL, AWS certification

   preferred.