Release Manager

About This Role

Managing the release of strategic cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives is the core of this role, ensuring secure, compliant, and predictable deployments within a highly regulated financial services environment. This position suits an experienced Release Manager responsible for planning, coordinating, and governing release activities across multiple workstreams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and execute integrated release plans across multiple cybersecurity and infrastructure initiatives
• Coordinate release activities through planning, build, testing, validation, deployment, and post-release support phases
• Manage release calendars, dependencies, and scheduling conflicts across concurrent projects
• Partner with Change Management teams to ensure releases meet governance, audit, and compliance standards
• Identify, assess, and mitigate release risks, including environment readiness, dependency management, and rollback planning
• Prepare and maintain release documentation, deployment plans, release notes, and back-out procedures
• Serve as the central coordination point between security, infrastructure, application, and project teams
• Facilitate stakeholder communications before, during, and after production releases
• Support governance reviews and communicate release readiness, risks, and go/no-go decisions

Requirements

• Experience managing enterprise technology releases in complex environments
• Strong understanding of release management, change management, governance, and risk controls
• Experience coordinating releases across multiple teams, vendors, and stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple concurrent releases while maintaining visibility and control
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience supporting infrastructure, cybersecurity, or regulatory remediation initiatives
• Experience with release and change management tools such as ServiceNow, Azure DevOps (ADO), Jira, or similar enterprise release management platforms

Nice to have:

• Financial services or other highly regulated industry experience
• Experience supporting cybersecurity, network, firewall, identity, or cloud security initiatives
• Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and enterprise deployment processes
• Experience working with audit, compliance, and change control requirements
• Advanced organizational and project coordination skills

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance Plans
• Employee-Owned Profit Sharing (ESOP)
• 401K offered

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