Release Manager

About This Role

An established organization is looking for a Release & Environments Manager to help strengthen the way technology releases and environments are managed across its IT function. You'll play a key role in coordinating releases, managing dependencies and ensuring changes are properly planned, tested and delivered with the right controls in place. This role offers genuine scope to shape processes, introduce improvements and help develop a more structured and effective approach to release and environment management.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate releases across development, test, UAT and production environments, ensuring timelines, dependencies and responsibilities are clearly defined
• Manage readiness checks, approvals, go/no-go decisions, deployment plans and rollback arrangements to support controlled, reliable releases
• Coordinate environment availability, configuration, access, refreshes and maintenance to support development, testing and live services
• Work with project teams, testers and technical specialists to ensure environments are ready when required and dependencies or issues are resolved early
• Maintain release documentation, change records, audit trails and reporting, ensuring appropriate controls are followed throughout the release process
• Act as a central point of contact between technical teams, business stakeholders and third-party suppliers, keeping everyone aligned on plans, progress and risks
• Identify opportunities to improve release processes, environment stability, documentation and automation, helping the wider IT function mature

Requirements

• Experience coordinating technology releases and deployments across multiple applications or environments
• A solid understanding of release readiness, change control, risk management and rollback planning
• Experience coordinating development, test, UAT, pre-production and production environments
• The ability to manage dependencies across technical teams, projects and business stakeholders
• Strong organizational and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and keep activity moving
• A practical approach to governance and process improvement, balancing appropriate controls with the need to deliver
• Experience with Azure, Dynamics 365 or comparable enterprise application environments
• Experience working with third-party suppliers and a range of internal stakeholders

Nice to have:

• Experience with release tooling, deployment automation, ITIL, Agile or PRINCE2
• Experience helping a smaller or developing IT function improve its processes

Benefits

• Remote-first working, with some initial office attendance and occasional in-person collaboration