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Job Title: Release Lead Engineer
Location: Remote
Type: Contract 9+ months
Role Overview:
This resource will coordinate and manage software releases across various environments, ensure the integrity and stability of the non-production and Prod environments during releases. This resource will have to cover hours between 1pm – 10pm EST weekdays and rotation for Production deployments on Saturday evenings which can start as early as 7pm and as late as 10pm. These change windows are typically 4 hours in duration.
Key Responsibilities:
- Manage daily deployment review meetings.
- Coordinate with different platform and QA teams during release windows.
- Monitor and improve the efficiency of release management processes.
- Maintain documentation for release notes and Service Now Change Requests.
- Conduct post-implementation reviews to identify areas for improvement.
- Ensure compliance with JM change management standards.
- Represent changes to the Change Advisory Board (CAB).
- Plan, configure, and maintain test environments to ensure they meet the requirements of development and testing teams.
- Collaborate with development, testing, and operations teams to identify environment requirements for each stage of the software development lifecycle.
- Monitor the health and performance of test environments, taking corrective actions when needed to ensure stability and reliability.
- Manage environment bookings and allocations to avoid conflicts and ensure teams can access the appropriate environments when needed.
- Implement changes and improvements to streamline the management of test environments, reduce costs, and increase efficiency.
Tools and Technologies:
- ServiceNow: Create Change Requests for all Production deployments and represent changes to the CAB.
- Azure: Manage work items and tickets, create queries and dashboards to track release metrics.
- SharePoint: Maintain a Release Management site with all relevant environment and release documentation.
- Microsoft Dynamics F&O: Create builds and releases.
- Azure DevOps: Experience with release pipelines for custom Azure applications.
Qualifications:
- Previous release management lead experience highly preferred
- Certifications such as ITIL, PMP, or equivalent is desirable.
- Experience with IT Service Management (ITSM) tools, preferably ServiceNow.
- Experience with Azure DevOps and Microsoft Dynamics F&O.
- Strong project management and coordination skills.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
- Knowledge of change and release management principles.
- Ability to create queries and dashboards to track release metrics.
- Engineering or senior developer background with hands-on release management.
- Familiarity with tools like ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, and GitHub
Additional Duties:
- Collaborate with Quality Assurance teams for testing and validation.
- Provide governance oversight to ensure adherence to processes.
- Manage risk associated with deploying changes to production environments.
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