Release manager / DevOps Engineer

Create, automate, improve, and streamline the release management process to satisfy complex or solution-based releases. Coordinate with different stakeholders and several software development teams and manage schedules to satisfy interdependencies and achieve error-free deployments. Aim to enable continuous delivery of solutions with high efficiency whilst ensuring quality benchmarks are met. ORGANIZATIONAL RELATIONSHIPS Reporting to: Head of IT Applications Scope of Work

1. Managing release activities of different solutions and applications across different technologies and platforms including web and mobile.
2. Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews.
3. Ensuring all dependencies are in place inclusive of marketing materials, app store assets, training materials, etc.
4. Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules.
5. Planning release windows and cycles across portfolios, components targeting multiple environments (system integrity test environment, user acceptance test environment, staging/pre-prod environment, and production environment).
6. Leading and coordinating checklist and deployment plan execution.
7. Developing automation and release management tools along with scripts necessary for the construction, continuous integration, and deployment of software releases.
8. Managing relationships working on interrelated processes.
9. Communicating crucial release plans and changes.
10. Measuring and monitoring progress to achieve a timely software release within defined budgetary limits and defined quality standards.
11. Coordinating processes between different teams, possibly in various locations, and liaising closely with both development and operations teams.
12. Communicating necessary release details to business teams.
13. Working with software engineers to comprehend code and branch merges implications.
14. Researching new software development and the best methods and techniques for managing configurations regarding a business's existing needs.
15. Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations.
16. Ensuring that requirements are clear across dependent project streams with an effective release.
17. Initiating and overseeing the development of technical guides and training for external functionality.
18. Managing the development of deliverables into production and test environments.
19. Deployment management of deliverables to the test environment, particularly guaranteeing that the external dependent items are available during the test runtime.

• Ability to handle software infrastructure management & configuration management.
• Experience in using software development, project, or release management tools such as GIT, JIRA, JENKINS, Slack, Opgenie, Kubernetes, SonarQube, etc.
• An expert understanding of the software development lifecycle.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Structured and critical thinking.
• Experience in coordinating cross-functional work teams up to task completion.
• Familiarity with Agile principles.
• Experience with eCommerce, financial application, and/or financial systems is a plus.
• Certification in AWS DevOps or Azure DevOps is a plus.

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science, or a related subject.
• 5+ years experience as a software developer in two or more of the following languages: C#, Swift, Kotlin, PLSQL, and Python.
• 1+ years experience as a DevOps engineer.
• 1+ years experience as a manager in a similar role.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion.
• Must meet all requirements in the application process.