Sr. IT Change & Release Management Analyst

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Our direct, F100 client is looking for a REMOTE Sr. IT Change and Release Management Analyst (Software Release Analyst) to join their organization in a long-term contract position. This role is open to remote candidates (schedule will follow ET hours)!

You d be joining a team of 20 peers supporting software development teams who are responsible for all the organization's key business applications. The mission of this centralized team is to plan and deploy software releases developed through both waterfall and agile methodologies. The role serves as a single point of contact for change control, release planning, and application deployment, ensuring that changes are properly scheduled, managed to mitigate risk and delivered on time with high quality. The focus for this role will be on software code deployment experience rather than infrastructure change management.

You will interact daily with other Change/Release Analysts, Developers, Project Managers, and Service Managers. The primary responsibility is to plan and perform software promotion to Development, QA, and Production environments. The applications supported by the team are hosted in a variety of technology platforms such as distributed, mainframe, and cloud.

Day to day Responsibilities:

• Serve as a single point of contact for change control, release planning, and application deployment, ensuring that changes are properly scheduled, managed to mitigate risk and delivered on time with high quality.
• Interact daily with other release planners, developers, testers, project managers, and service managers.
• Responsible for planning and performing software deployment to development, test, and production environments which are performed on distributed (server), cloud, and mainframe platforms.
• The deployments are executed both during and before normal business hours, with an occasional need for weekend deployments. For major projects, availability for support after the promotion is completed is expected.
  
  

Essential Skills:

• Working knowledge of Change and Release Management methods, tools, terminology, and industry practices
• Working knowledge of ITIL and industry standards, concepts, terminology, and common practices
• Excellent communication skills listening, verbal and written including meeting management and facilitation.
• Excellent customer service skills servicing and interfacing with individuals across IT (customers) in different roles to coordinate/lead elevates for major projects as well as operational changes.
• Excellent organization skills with proven ability to manage multiple assignments and priorities successfully, delivering with high quality
• Proven ability to work in a team-oriented environment, collaborating with others to establish common goals, including deployment dates.
• Proven ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to embrace assignment changes when needed.
  
  

Plusses:

• Knowledge of Microsoft Azure DevOps (AzDO), GIT, Pipelines and workflows.
• Experience with BMC Remedy or other ITSM tool suites
• Experience with Serena ChangeMan (used for mainframe deployments)
  
  

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Please click the Apply Now button to apply for the job.

We will review your resume and call if you are qualified.

Resumes will NOT be sent to clients without your approval.

REFERRALS WANTED - $ 1000 REWARD!

Refer a colleague to us, and Precision will give you $ 1000 if we find a job for that person!

(The fine print: The referred candidate must be previously unknown to us. Start date must be within 6 months of referral.)

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THERE ARE MANY IT STAFFING FIRMS YOU CAN WORK WITH.

WHY WORK WITH PRECISION?

Our Clients. We work with the best.

• We are direct vendors to Fortune 500 companies across North America
• We're the top provider of contract IT professionals to many of our clients
  
  

Our Experience. We know how to sell our candidates to clients.

• We've been in business for over 20 years, and have made thousands of successful placements
  
  

Our Background. Precision is run by former IT professionals.

• We know what it is like to be an IT consultant working in a large organization.
• We actually understand your skills. We'll make sure that you are right for the job, and that the job is right for you.
  
  

Our Reputation for Quality. Clients favor Precision's candidates.

• We take the time to learn about you so that we can best match you to our openings and sell you to our clients.
• Our clients know from experience that Precision's consultants are the most qualified and the best fit for their project teams.
  
  

Our Ethics. We pride ourselves on our ethical business practices.

• We never submit your resume without your permission, and we never give your resume to other staffing companies
• We are up front about pay rates and the interviewing process, and provide you with constant feedback.
  
  

Our Responsibility. We take seriously our obligations to our consultants.

• We always pay on time
• We offer highly competitive pay rates, as well as an opportunity to participate in our group health insurance, long term disability and 401(k) plans.
• When required, we carefully manage H1-B and applications, and involve you at every step.
• We have dedicated HR personnel that will answer the phone when you call.
  
  

THE STAFFING FIRM YOU WORK WITH MATTERS.

WORK WITH PRECISION.

Job ID 5328DI-3920