Release Manager- Entry Level

Role Summary

We are hiring a Release Manager based in either the APAC or EMEA region to coordinate the endtoend release lifecycle for a portfolio of enterprise and product facing applications. You will partner across engineering, QA, infrastructure, security, and business stakeholders to ensure that every release is predictable, auditable, and customer safe.

This is a hands on role focused on running the release cadence reliably, improving CI CD and change processes incrementally, and providing regional coverage for release activity across APAC and EMEA time zones.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain the release calendar for inscope products, coordinating timing, dependencies, and stakeholder communication across APAC and EMEA teams.
• Run release readiness reviews and facilitate go no go decisions, ensuring acceptance criteria, test evidence, security signoff, and operational runbooks are complete before deployment.
• Execute deployments to staging and production environments, including coordination of pre and postrelease validation, smoke tests, and rollback if needed.
• Operate and continuously improve CI CD pipelines Examples Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, reducing manual steps and lead time for changes.
• Drive change management in line with ITIL practices and applicable regulatory frameworks example GxP, 21 CFR Part 11 maintaining a complete and auditready release record.
• Coordinate hotfix and emergency change processes, including incident driven releases, while protecting overall system stability.
• Support healthy lower environments dev, QA, staging by helping manage availability, configuration parity, and refresh cadence.
• Track and report release metrics such as deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, and mean time to recovery DORA metrics
• Act as the regional release point of contact for APAC and EMEA stakeholders, escalating risks and decisions clearly and on time.
• Document release processes, runbooks, and lessons learned, and share best practices with engineering teams across regions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4 to 6 years of professional experience in software engineering, DevOps, or release management, with at least 2 years in a release Focused role.
• Hands on experience with modern CI CD tooling Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps and version control workflows Git.
• Working knowledge of at least one major cloud platform AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform and containerized deployments Docker; Kubernetes a plus
• Demonstrated experience coordinating releases across multiple teams and environments, including managing downstream dependencies.
• Practical exposure to change management frameworks ITIL and to releasing in auditcontrolled environments.
• Strong written and verbal communication able to translate technical risk into clear business language for stakeholders.
• Proven ability to operate effectively in a fully remote, globally distributed team, with flexibility to cover APAC or EMEA working hours.
• Based in and authorized to work in an APAC or EMEA country.