Release planning, coordination, governance, and deployment activities across multiple product lines and technology platforms are driven by this role. The Release Manager serves as the operational hub between Engineering, Product Management, Quality Assurance, DevOps, IT/ICS, and Security teams to ensure software releases are delivered safely, predictably, and efficiently. This role requires expertise in release planning, orchestration, software delivery lifecycle management, Azure DevOps, CI/CD practices, change management, and enterprise-scale dependency coordination.
Responsibilities
Manage the enterprise release calendar across multiple product teams
Coordinate and govern releases spanning applications, services, infrastructure, databases, and cloud platforms
Lead release readiness reviews and go/no-go decision processes
Identify and manage cross-team dependencies, scheduling conflicts, and deployment risks
Ensure release activities align with business priorities and market commitments
Facilitate release planning meetings and release retrospectives
Define and maintain release management standards, policies, procedures, and controls
Manage change approval processes and release governance workflows
Ensure releases comply with security, audit, compliance, and operational standards
Maintain traceability between requirements, defects, builds, deployments, and releases
Develop release scorecards and executive reporting
Partner with DevOps engineers to improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Promote modern release engineering practices including continuous delivery, progressive delivery, and automated rollback strategies
Champion the reduction of manual deployment activities through automation
Collaborate with ICS to coordinate production deployments of all releases
Assist with deployment command center activities during large-scale releases
Monitor deployment progress and communicate risks early to stakeholders
Drive issue triage and escalation during deployments
Coordinate validation, smoke testing, and post-release verification activities
Identify release risks and develop mitigation plans
Facilitate deployment war rooms during critical incidents
Support incident response and postmortem analysis for release-related failures
Track corrective actions to completion
Perform other related duties as directed
Requirements
Enterprise software release management
Multi-team release coordination
Change management and governance
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Release readiness and deployment planning
Dependency management and roadmap alignment
Agile release planning methodologies
Strong understanding of Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines, Git and branching strategies, as well as build and artifact management and CI/CD
Working knowledge of infrastructure as code with Terraform and YAML-based pipelines and configuration management
Experience supporting releases in enterprise cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure, hybrid cloud architectures, and platform services
Experience integrating release processes with test automation, quality gates, security scanning, and DevSecOps controls
Strong facilitation and meeting leadership skills
Ability to coordinate large cross-functional efforts
Exceptional stakeholder management
Strong conflict resolution and negotiation capabilities
Ability to communicate technical and business risks effectively
Executive-level status reporting
Clear written and verbal communication
Analytical and data-driven decision-making
Ability to prioritize competing demands
Calm and effective under pressure
Exceptional planning and execution capabilities
Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent releases
Strong attention to detail
Bachelor
-s degree in computer science, engineering, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of experience in release management, DevOps, project delivery, and technical program management
Nice to have:
Relevant Azure, CSM, ITIL Foundation certifications
Important Details
Reports to: Director, Release Management & DevOps
Number supervised: 0
Travel: 0%
Classification: Exempt
Work environment: Professional office environment
About the Company
BST Global is seeking an experienced Technical Release Manager to drive enterprise software release planning, coordination, governance, and deployment activities across multiple product lines and technology platforms.
