Release Manager Job Description
Release manager
provides guidance and status to software developers, engineering staff, quality assurance, and configuration/release teams related to process and tool design alternatives, solution lifecycle processes, and compliance with established procedures for configuration/data management.
Release Manager Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective release manager job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included release manager job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Maintaining knowledge of application infrastructure support processes and procedures
Overseeing the deployment function for EV/UC related applications or infrastructure releases
Promote effective analysis to determine root cause of application/product/services problems
Monitor efficiency and effectiveness of Release Management activities for assigned area
Creation and maintenance of the ’ release schedule of events’ for all deliveries
Day to day administration of Microsoft Team Foundation Server(s) system in support of various project development teams
Creating projects, new code branches and merging code streams in TFS
Creating and maintaining TFS build scripts
Working with development teams to produce automated builds
Delivering quality builds into system test
Release Manager Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Release Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ITIL, PMP, QA, V3, AWS, CSM, SFDC
Education for Release Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the release manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Business, Management, Information Technology, Information Systems, Technology, Project Management
Skills for Release Manager
Desired skills for release manager include:
Software development lifecycle
Excel
SDLC
Java
Jira
Products
Operations management and technical processes
Procedures
Quality standards
Status of service delivery for all operations-related activities
Desired experience for release manager includes:
Provide analysis on details of System Deployment Plans (SDP) and ensuring the accuracy and feasibility of deployments
Ensure external resources (DBA, Unix admins, ) are engaged for weekend deployments
Minimum 10 years of experience as a release/software configuration manager
Excellent communication, organization and analytical skills are mandatory
Automated build and test experience
Experience implementing Continue Integration (CI)
Release Manager Examples
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Release Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a release manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for release manager
- Support project team development of promotion inputs
- Coordinate and approve project team code migrations to application environments and communicate promotion status at a C&IB MIS umbrella level
- Maintain application environment configuration baselines
- Facilitate project team verification of successful code migrations, including component traceability
- Facilitate application environment reservation conflicts with project managers, other release managers, C&IB Release Manager and teams
- Create code migration success guides and facilitate migration status meetings
- Ensure compliance with all internal and external requirements, program business rules, state and federal regulations
- Manage, coordinate and ensure oversight of releases through various environments (QA, Staging, Performance, UAT, Training)
- Ensure appropriate operational service documentation is created and accepted by stakeholders prior to the introduction of a new service (~40%)
- Develop service readiness and risk plan and ensure that transition risks are identified and mitigated (~20%)
Qualifications for release manager
- At least 4 years experience in release management
- At least 1 year experience in leadership
- Bachelor degree in CS or related field or equivalent work experience
- 7+ years of IT Operations experience on release & Deployment management
- Demonstrated ability to adapt to new environments and lead, be proactive, and drive change
- Sharp internet sense, with e-commerce business acumen
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Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a release manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for release manager
- Coordinates all cross application dependencies and downstream impacts and facilitates remediation to release issues and risks
- Ensures application releases are traceable, auditable and that only authorized and verified/validated versions are deployed
- Documents release implementation and roll-back plans
- Manages and coordinates application deployments and post-release activities
- Coordinates with configuration management to ensure that environments are setup, configured to support upcoming release activities
- Coordinates with application and business teams to prioritize enhancements and defects into releases
- Work with development to understand impacts of branches and code merges
- Organize and shape multiple IT SME’s, service providers , service owners and business owners into a consolidated delivery schedule (roadmap)
- Administratively support all aspects of an implementation release
- Coordinate and assemble a delivery plan from the SME’s for both infrastructure releases and application releases
Qualifications for release manager
- Experienced in Software Development operation
- Experienced in communicate with global stake holders from different regions
- Mandarin native speaker with fluent English
- Ability to lead engineering teams through product development life cycle
- You are calmness personified
- Experience with Agile and Waterfall methods
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of release manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for release manager
- Communicates forward schedule of releases
- Releases may be a part of a project and the Release Manager will work closely with key project roles to ensure successful project delivery and releases may include in part, or in whole, the introduction of new applications or hardware, or updates to existing applications or hardware
- Guide initiatives to align with the overall application portfolio and core platform blueprint and manages the evolution of the application portfolio from a release management vantage point
- Manages Release Management function in the successful implementation of software code for all applications
- Interfaces with key software providers to establish release management guidelines
- Ensures that all software releases meet time constraints while ensuring that specifications are met and delivered
- Understands and manages large scale application deployments
- Develops build and release engineering plans
- Shows proven ability to develop automated continuous delivery and deployment solutions
- Works with development teams and others to create infrastructure as code using Docker, Puppet, Chef, or similar
Qualifications for release manager
- Manage relationships and coordinates work between different teams at different locations
- Strong payments and transaction processing systems background is a plus
- Working within a cross-functional agile delivery process you will be managing the deployment of applications into various environments (QA, STG, Production ) on a variety of infrastructure, including AWS
- Must have knowledge of Agile delivery processes, preferably Scrum
- Familiarity with Project Management and modelling tools
- Prior direct involvement with Development, Quality Assurance and/or operational Support activities
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a release manager. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for release manager
- Manage release implementations and calendar
- Coordinate efforts across teams to ensure release dependencies are accounted for in the deployment plan
- Works with all stakeholders and recommend process improvements designed to further mature release management capabilities and improve overall results
- Ensures all release documentations is completed per defined guidelines and standards
- Contributes to the creation and maintenance of release metrics
- Application release automation and continuous integration tools to help advance the process of Continuous delivery and incorporate a culture of DevOps by automating task so that it can be done more quickly, reliably and is repeatable
- Identifies stakeholders and reports status to stakeholders and senior management
- Identify and manage governance and compliance requirements, external dependencies
- Position will provide Release Management support for various lines of business and applications within the enterprise
- Act as a liaison to ServiceNow Manager and customers
Qualifications for release manager
- Experience with build tools, such as make, premake, Jenkins, Visual Studio, msbuild, ant
- Degree educated / Equivalent
- 5 years plus extensive hands on practical and best practice experience of Release Management across complex IT Environments
- Strong working knowledge and practical appreciation of ITIL based Service Transition
- Strong working knowledge and hands on application of ITIL Release Management process
- Sound working knowledge and practical awareness of ITIL Change Management process
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of release manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for release manager
- Plan and setup product discussions with the product owner, users,the UX team and the development team to understand and refine acceptancecriteria and estimate user stories
- Own the release management lifecycle including scheduling, coordinating, and managing releases across the enterprise for multiple applications
- Track and manage configuration changes from integration to production through documentation of application release notes and plans
- Troubleshoot and help identify configuration problems in a system with a large number of interrelated applications
- Define the critical success factors and key performance indicators for the process, track defect rates per release for each application and version, and provide organization accountability for application environment reliability
- Work with Product Management, DevOps, and Sr
- Define and execute a risk mitigation plan for the release
- Review Run Books and Implementation Plans for completeness and accuracy
- Maintain the release schedule for all application changes and ensure alignment across IT management and vendors
- Responsible for the review and approval of all implementation scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
Qualifications for release manager
- Able to interact with Senior Mgmt
- Must be a team player and able to work with others
- Excellent ability to communicate concerns and risks
- Previous knowledge of a Service Management Tool, Remedy, Service Now
- Experience of building reports relevant to Release Management Activity, Productivity & Process Compliance
- Experience working as Release Analyst in an environment that includes multiple technology platforms (Windows, Linux, Oracle)