DevOps Release Manager, Mid-Level

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Job Summary:

Siemens Digital Industries Software is seeking a proactive Cloud DevOps Release Manager to enhance their software release processes. The role involves overseeing the end-to-end release lifecycle, ensuring adherence to quality standards, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive efficiency in deployments.

Responsibilities:

• Actively drive release planning with development, QA, and operations teams, ensuring adherence to release milestones.

• Collaborate with development, QV, and operations teams to plan and coordinate continuous software releases.

• Define and enforce clear release scope, schedule, and dependencies to ensure timely and smooth deployments.

• Create and submit change records as required for process and audit compliance. Facilitation and active participation in Technical Change Advisory and Review boards required.

• Involvement with planning, testing, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management.

• Monitor all aspects of release lifecycle—from planning to execution—ensuring accountability across teams.

• Coordination and active participation end to end during planned downtimes

• Active participation in root cause analysis and report out on release outages and active release upgrades

• Proactively identify potential blockers and risks, driving timely resolutions.

• Maintain strict oversight of change management and actively participate in Technical Change Advisory and Review boards.

• Ensure rigorous adherence to change, testing, and deployment policies before approving production releases.

• Actively oversee planned downtimes and ensure that releases meet operational reliability standards.

• Maintain continuous alignment with leadership on release health and readiness, providing detailed impact assessments.

• Own and drive root cause analysis (RCA) efforts for any release outages or failures, implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

• Push teams towards achieving higher efficiency and quality through automation and process improvements.

• Champion CI/CD best practices, ensuring efficient, automated deployments via AWS CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.

• Oversee version control repositories, enforcing branching strategies to minimize conflicts and ensure stability.

• Implement infrastructure as code (IaC) practices using tools like Terraform, Morpheus, or CloudFormation.

• Manage various development, testing, staging, and production environments, ensuring consistency and reliability across environments.

• Establish and enforce rigorous quality gates in collaboration with QA teams.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to refine release processes, minimizing defects and deployment risks.

• Analyze trends from past releases, identify pain points, and implement measurable improvements.

• Stay updated on industry best practices and emerging technologies to optimize release efficiency.

• Act as the central point of accountability for release readiness and execution, keeping all stakeholders aligned.

• Provide real-time visibility into release status, risks, and mitigation plans.

• Ensure clear and timely communication of release schedules, changes, and impact assessments.

• Work closely with SRE teams to address any post-release incidents or issues, contributing to rapid resolution and root cause analysis.

• Provide immediate report out to leadership with ability to speak to the learnings and next steps.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering or related fields or equivalent experience.

• 5-8 years of proven experience as a DevOps Release Manager or similar role in a fast-paced software development environment.

• Strong knowledge of DevOps practices, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and related tools.

• Proficiency in CI/CD tools such as AWS CI/CD, GitLab CI/CD, or others.

• Hands-on experience with version control systems (AWS CodeCommit, Git, SVN) and branching strategies.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Morpheus, or similar.

• Solid understanding of Agile methodologies and their application in release management.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate cross-functional work teams toward task completion

• Demonstrated effective leadership and analytical skills

• Advanced written and verbal communication skills are a must

• Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle is required

• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to adapt to rapidly changing requirements.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across teams.

• Attention to detail, with a focus on maintaining excellence in software releases.

Preferred:

• 8-10 years experience with containerization and orchestration technologies (EKS, ECS, Docker, Kubernetes)

• Relevant certifications in DevOps or related fields are a plus.

• SAFE Agile RTE certification

• Scaled Agile SAFE certification

Company:

We help organizations of all sizes digitally transform using software, hardware and services from the Siemens Xcelerator business platform. Founded in , the company is headquartered in Plano, Texas, US, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage. Siemens Digital Industries Software has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships.