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Enterprise Release Manager

Apex IT Services

Bethesda · Hybrid Contract Lead Today

About the role

About

We are immediately looking for an Enterprise Release Manager with one of our direct clients.

Responsibilities

  • Release Governance & Strategy: Defining the enterprise-wide operating model and standards for how software moves from development to production.
  • Orchestration & Planning: Managing a centralized "calendar-of-record" to synchronize releases across independent teams, ensuring infrastructure and test environments are ready.
  • Risk & Dependency Management: Identifying "collision" risks where overlapping releases might cause outages and determining optimal rollback or recovery paths.
  • Transformation Leadership: Leading the transition from traditional waterfall or hybrid models to modern, automated CI/CD pipelines.
  • Release Planning & Coordination: Develop and execute comprehensive release plans for software and infrastructure deployments. Align schedules across dependent systems and integrate Agile and DevOps principles into release trains.
  • Risk & Issue Management: Use predictive analytics and AI-driven insights to identify, track, and mitigate risks. Proactively manage release-level jeopardies and determine optimal release paths.
  • Enterprise-wide Release Calendar Management: Ensure proactive visibility, collision avoidance, and post-change learning across IT, Infrastructure, Network, and Operations to prevent service conflicts and outages.
  • Deployment & Monitoring: Oversee end-to-end deployment activities using CI/CD pipelines and automation tools. Ensure rapid issue resolution to minimize downtime.

Qualifications

  • Expert level Knowledge of SDLC for SAFe Agile environments; best-in-class Release and Change Management framework and IT Service Management.
  • Hands-on experience with Jira Align, Jira Cloud, JSM, GitHub, Salesforce.
  • Strong understanding of release/change lifecycle and Outage root cause analysis.

Skills

CI/CDDevOpsGitHubJira AlignJira CloudJSMSAFe AgileSalesforce

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