What are the responsibilities and job description for the Release Manager position at Waypoint Human Capital?
Position Title: Release Manager
Position Type: Onsite
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD Primary-Landover, MD Secondary-JBAB Third
Clearance: TS/SCI
Responsibilities:
- Manage all implementation code promotion to multiple testing and production environments during the software development life-cycle.
- Work with the development and quality teams in implementing and enhancing our build/test environment and related processes and tasks.
- Perform minimal debugging to determine where automation failures should be directed to be addressed.
- Design & implement a reliable build/test automation framework.
- Effectively communicate and collaborate with Development and Quality teams.
- Own the process for releasing builds into QA (schedule, release notes, etc).
- Own the process for releasing software to customers, including patches, maintenance releases, etc.
- Maintain and manage release and development branches within code repository to ensure consistency of code check-ins and applicability of related branches.
- Effectively determine when a release branch should be made as well as related branch management policies and best practices.
- Demonstrate understanding of software development life cycles. Hands on knowledge of lab & IT infrastructure, comfortable configuring hardware, networks, software, etc. Familiarity with the following a strong plus: distributed systems, networking, multithreading, enterprise storage.
- Enforce acceptance criteria of turnover packages: code, documentation and other types of software development assets.
- Schedule, perform and notify stakeholders of releases.
- Support off hours release of software.
- Contribute to evolution of configuration management policy and procedures.
- Communicate CM methodologies to development staff.
- Troubleshoot software issues in all environments.
- Review system and machine event and error logs on routine basis.
Requirements:
- Proven experience in release management role supporting an enterprise Information Technology (IT) program.
- Demonstrated experience managing, planning, and scheduling the roll-out of IT services, updates, and releases to the production environment
- ITIL certification desired.