Environment and Release Manager

Requirements -

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Release Management, Environment Management, DevOps, or IT Operations. Overall 10+yrs.
• Strong understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and Agile methodologies.
• Experience with ITIL processes, particularly Release, Change, and Incident Management.
• Experience managing enterprise application deployments.

Technical Skills

• CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Azure DevOps).
• Version control systems such as Git.
• Cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
• Monitoring and logging tools.
• Strong knowledge of deployment automation and configuration management.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Management

• Manage development, testing, staging, UAT, and production environments.
• Coordinate environment provisioning, configuration, refreshes, and maintenance activities.
• Monitor environment health, availability, and capacity.
• Resolve environment conflicts, scheduling issues, and resource constraints.
• Maintain environment documentation and configuration records.

Release Management

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate software releases across multiple applications and platforms.
• Develop and maintain release calendars and deployment schedules.
• Lead release readiness reviews and go/no-go meetings.
• Coordinate deployment activities with development, QA, infrastructure, security, and business teams.
• Ensure release packages meet quality and compliance requirements.
• Manage release rollbacks and recovery procedures when necessary.

Change Management

• Work closely with Change Advisory Boards (CAB) and IT Service Management teams.
• Ensure releases comply with change management policies and governance standards.
• Prepare and submit change requests and deployment documentation.

Process Improvement

• Continuously improve release and deployment processes.
• Promote DevOps and CI/CD best practices.
• Automate manual deployment and environment management activities where possible.
• Define and track KPIs related to release success, deployment frequency, and environment utilization.

Risk and Incident Management

• Identify and mitigate release-related risks.
• Coordinate incident response during and after deployments.
• Conduct post-implementation reviews and lessons-learned sessions.