Release Manager

This role is essential for orchestrating the smooth, secure, and timely release of digital products and applications into production, ensuring stability and operational excellence.
Job Description:
Title:
Release Manager, Digital Products Location:
Gurugram, Haryana, India Experience:
6+ years in Release Management, DevOps, or Software Engineering, with 2-3 years focused on complex application deployments. About the Role:
We are seeking a meticulous and highly organized Release Manager to own and optimize the end-to-end release process for our digital products and applications. You will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing releases, ensuring that our software solutions are delivered to production environments reliably, securely, and with minimal disruption. This role will bridge development, operations, QA, and business teams to maintain a predictable release cadence and high quality. Key Responsibilities:
Release Planning & Management:
Develop and manage release calendars, define release scope, and establish release readiness criteria for digital products and applications. Release Coordination:
Orchestrate and facilitate release activities across multiple teams, including Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Operations. CI/CD Pipeline Optimization:
Work closely with DevOps and engineering teams to ensure robust and automated CI/CD pipelines for software deployment, leveraging tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps. Version Control & Artifact Management:
Manage versioning of code, configurations, and deployment artifacts, ensuring proper management throughout the release lifecycle. Risk & Rollback Planning:
Identify potential release risks and dependencies, developing comprehensive mitigation and rollback plans. Release Gates & Approvals:
Define and enforce release gates, ensuring all necessary testing (functional, performance, security, user acceptance), compliance checks, and stakeholder approvals are obtained before deployment. Environment Management:
Coordinate environment provisioning and configuration for testing and production deployments. Communication & Reporting:
Provide clear and timely communication on release status, progress, and issues to all stakeholders. Utilize Jira for release tracking and Kendis for visualizing release trains and cross-team dependencies. Post-Release Monitoring:
Collaborate with operations and monitoring teams to ensure effective post-release monitoring of application performance, stability, and operational health. Process Improvement:
Continuously evaluate and improve the release management process, ensuring efficiency, predictability, and adaptability within an Agile environment. Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a related technical field. Masters preferred. 6+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, or Software Engineering roles within a fast-paced software development environment. At least 2-3 years of direct experience managing releases for complex digital products or applications. Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practical experience with CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, Azure DevOps). Proficiency with release management and project tracking tools, including Jira for managing release backlogs, sprints, and issues, and Kendis for visualizing release trains, cross-team dependencies, and program increments. Experience with cloud platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes). Familiarity with monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Azure Monitor, Splunk) for post-release validation. Excellent communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills. Preferred Qualifications:
Certification in ITIL, DevOps, or Agile Release Train (ART) methodologies. Experience with incident management and change management processes.