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Release Manager

Full time at wePlace (Pty) Ltd in South Africa
Posted on December 17, 2024

Job details

A market-leading South African ISP is looking for a Release Manager to join their team.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose:
  • Release managers coordinate with different stakeholders for requirements, testing, and release calendar of necessary components.
  • They ensure a synchronous running of day-to-day processes.
  • Planning with several software development teams is a part of the release manager's duty.
Key Responsibilities:
  • Collaboration and coordination of end-to-end release process.
  • Communicate with Project Teams to understand the demand, prepare landscape and sandbox setup proposal.
  • Providing leadership, control and take responsibility for the given area and manage and coordinate the deployment process.
  • Supporting and planning project cutovers and oversee deployments.
  • Manage releases according to the organization standards and adhere to timelines.
  • Ensure appropriate resources are available and communicate deployment status as necessary.
  • Subject Matter Expert for release management tools to act as a leader to support, train other team members if they are facing any issues in the deployment of their releases and/or project streams.
  • Mitigating risk by identifying risks during code conflict, merging and ensuring to deploy quality code in production and conduct release reviews, take accountability for driving a decision on Go Live of business requirement.
  • Salesforce Platform Knowledge is essential to be proficient in refreshing a sandbox, must know how to package and deploy metadata components, knowledge on release branching strategies, code merging and should have worked on conflict resolution strategies.
  • Understand and command awareness of Plan, Do, Check and Act with respect to the deployment of metadata components into the Salesforce org.
  • Quality, Automate, Pipeline, Integrate, Deployment of quality code by running Static code analysis tools, automate most of the process by running deployment pipelines, Integrating the code, and deploying the metadata components into target org.
  • Create and communicate implementation plans.
  • Efficient to work on application life cycle management solutions like Jira, Gearset, AccelQ.
  • Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities.
  • Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications list, and dependencies.
  • Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.
Qualifications:
  • Suitable tertiary qualification.
  • Project Management experience.
Experience:
  • Minimum of 3-4 years’ experience as a Release Manager.
  • Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
  • Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system.
  • Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
  • Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle.
Will be measured on:
  • Release success rate (including rollbacks, on time delivery).
  • Escaped Defects.
  • Defect rate.
  • Number of releases.
  • Deployment duration.
  • Release duration.
  • Downtime, number of outages caused by a Release.
  • Number of incidents caused by a Release.
  • Mean time to repair.
  • Average lead time.
  • Average cycle time.
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