Release Manager

Position: Release Manager

Key Responsibilities:

• To Ensure that Engineering meet timelines and prepare releases ahead of time as per release checklist and schedule
• To work with Dev/Product leads and create Change tasks and attend CAB meeting for approvals.
• Ensure all the changes are reviewed and meet standards, dependencies added as CTASK
• To ensure code, Impact analysis and merge requests ready for release, work along with Data Engineering team on review call.
• To ensure validations (Syntax, performance, unit and Integration/load testing) is followed in Development.
• To work with Dev leads to merge changes to Production in Git.
• To produce deployment checklist and run books plans for Data Engineering team
• To conduct Transition to Production support team before release schedule.
• To validate release notes and send release email to Business, Downstream users, Data Engineering and Production Support team.
• To ensure post deployment validation is performed by Data Engineering team
• Experience working as team and good at Team management.
• Work on Release Automation (Integrations needed for Jira, ServiceNow, auto UAT test deployment setup (work with QA team) etc)
• Layout plan for releases on GCP platform.
• Call out Risks/conduct rollbacks in prod
  

Requirements:

• Experience working with service now, Jira
• Hands-on experience with Incident and problem management.
• 5+ years of experience working as Release Manager.
• Basic experience or knowledge on Azure/GCP platform.
• Good experience working with Jenkins, other CI/CD tools and GitHub.
• Experience in reviewing code, Impact analysis, validations and merge requests on development and Master branch in Git.
• Experience working in confluence/ Wiki for documentation
• Exhibits a strong sense of urgency for high severity Incidents/Issues. Able to assess the customer impact and work along with Dev teams for tactical solutions.