Job description
Release Manager - Contract - Daily Rates - Hybrid-Working Model
Excellent opportunity for a Release Manager has just opened with a global financial services client in their Dublin office.
Hybrid-Working Model - 3 days' on-site and 2 remote per week.
This is a 6 month rolling long-term contract position.
Role:
The Release Manager will be responsible for managing the end-to-end release process, ensuring smooth coordination, deployment, and resolution of any issues related to lower lane and production releases. This position requires extensive experience in release management, branching strategies, and deployment processes. The Release Manager will guide and advise the teams while ensuring alignment with best practices and quality standards.
Responsibilities:
• Take full ownership of the Release Management activities, ensuring efficient collaboration and the timely delivery of releases.
• Provide expert advice on addressing urgent production issues, assisting teams in determining the best approach for releases.
• Provide guidance to teams and stakeholders on code base status and environment configurations.
• Advise development and DevOps teams on environment usage and deployments.
• Proficient in release branching strategies and version control using Jenkins, ensuring effective management of code versions across multiple environments.
• Well-versed in deployment logic, including the creation of release branches and manifests via GIT.
• Provide guidance to development teams on managing script dependencies within manifests, ensuring optimal deployment execution.
• Perform root cause analysis for deployment issues to ensure timely resolution and system stability.
• Advice teams on best practices on deployment processes and resolving issues.
• Investigate past-due revocation reports, identify underlying issues, and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Prepare detailed production runbooks and lead walkthrough meetings to ensure all stakeholders are aligned on deployment procedures.
• Manage dress rehearsal deployments and perform post-deployment adjustments in manifests to ensure seamless transitions into production.
• Coordinate outage notifications and engage with users to obtain confirmation for a smooth release initiation.
• Lead end-to-end production releases, ensuring flawless execution of release steps as outlined in the deployment runbook.
• Oversee Jira quality checks, providing guidance to SMs, PMs and other teams as needed on team-related inquiries.
• Coordinate all activities for significant & non-significant releases, ensuring proper preparation and alignment of all teams involved.
• Facilitate Go/No-Go decision-making processes for production releases, ensuring all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• Initiate exception approvals as needed and ensure proper documentation for audit support.
• Recommend and implement automation solutions to streamline and optimize processes, improving efficiency and reducing manual efforts.
• Perform daily deployments for the QA environments for the components (DB, UI, ETL, and Autosys).
• Manage UAT/Regression environment preparation, including deployments and workflow executions, to ensure readiness for testing.
• Coordinate and manage backup requests from QA teams as needed.
• Provision access in lower lanes based on ARM requests.
• Handle ad hoc deployment requests, ensuring timely and effective deployments.
• Create CRQs as required by program demands, ensuring proper tracking of the changes.
• Oversee the entire change management process, from CRQ creation to release container management, and ensure timely follow-up on approvals and CRQ closure.
• Facilitate stakeholder communications, ensuring transparency and alignment throughout the release process.
** Live Role - Apply for immediate consideration**
If you are interested in this position please apply or contact suzanne@stelfox.com in strictest confidence.
Please note:
We have a number of similar positions currently, and in the future, which we would like to discuss with you should you indicate your interest in this role. When we receive your application for this role, we will contact you to advise you of our process for other similar positions.
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We look forward to working with you.
