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Highbrow LLC

Release Manager

Highbrow LLC, Bellevue, Washington, us, 98009


Title:

Release Manager

Department:

Digital Commerce Domain

Location Address:

3625 132nd Ave SE, Bellevue, Washington

Travel Required:

No

RequirementLooking for a Release Manager for our client in Bellevue, Washington. The candidate will manage the BRT team and this role requires an individual who strongly advocates, implements, automates, and monitors all steps of software construction from integration through build, testing, and release to deployment. You will own the Release Management lifecycle which includes scheduling, coordinating, and the management of releases across the enterprise for multiple applications across various portfolios. Also, this candidate must work in a highly collaborative environment with various inter/intra organizations, Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) – Amazon Web Services (AWS), APIGEE, Oracle, etc., and as such, a strong team player with a commitment to perfection is required.

Role and Responsibilities

Measure and monitor progress to ensure application releases are delivered on time, and that they meet or exceed expectations.

Manage risks and resolve issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.

Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, defects/bugs, service requests, third party applications, or operating system updates.

Communicate all key project plans, commitments, and changes including requirements, QA plans, schedule, and scope changes.

Manage relationships and coordinate work between different teams at different locations.

Conduct and lead Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.

Produce Deployment, Run Books, and Implementation Plans.

Weekly Release Reporting and manage release dashboard.

Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.

Negotiate, plan, and manage all release activities.

Create, document, execute, and improve the process of build packaging, verification, certification, and release.

Manage and work with BRT engineers to coordinate all Build and Release activities – branching strategy, analyze the impacts of branches/environment and code merges.

Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across key partners and vendors.

Continually work towards making improvements in the release process.

Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment Plans and checklists.

Validate scripts and ensure they are risk-free – automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms.

Participate in CAB meetings to discuss release scope and/or roadblocks.

Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists.

Research new software development and configuration management methodologies and technologies and analyze their application to current configuration management needs.

Software and Security patching – meet all the required compliances.

Qualification

Bachelor’s degree or relevant work experience.

3-6 years of release and/or project management experience.

Prior experience performing release management for cloud operations.

Strong leadership, communication, and presentation skills with a firm sense of accountability, ownership for the end-to-end project lifecycle, and exceptional Project Management skills. Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion.

General PC knowledge including Microsoft Office expert level knowledge of Excel.

Proven ability to take initiative and execute using agile techniques.

Good to have

Work / Hands-on experience in AWS Infrastructure, Bitbucket, Docker Container, Jenkins, Linux platforms.

Knowledge of DevOps capabilities such as Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD), Automated Testing, etc.

Job Type:Full-time

Start date:Immediately (Preferred)

Job Location:Bellevue, Washington / Remote

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