Release Manager at Dallas, TX

Job Title: Release Manager
Location: Plano, TX
Mode: Onsite

This job posting is for an existing, active vacancy, looking for experienced candidate to orchestrates the entire software release lifecycle-from planning and development to testing and deployment-ensuring on-time, high-quality delivery.

Years of Experience: 15+ years

Key Responsibilities:

Production Deployment & Support

• Lead production deployments, including blue green, canary, or rolling strategies where applicable
• Own deployment monitoring, incident triage, rollback, and RCA
• Work closely with operations teams during hypercare and warranty periods (may be minimal at this time till product / app gets launched)

Governance, Metrics & Continuous Improvement

• Track and report DevOps and release metrics (deployment frequency, change failure rate, lead time, MTTR)
• Identify bottlenecks and risks in the release process and drive remediation
• Contribute to DevOps transformation roadmaps and maturity assessments

Required Skills & Experience

Core Experience

• 8 12+ years of overall IT experience with strong focus on Release, Deployment, and DevOps
• Proven experience leading enterprise scale releases across multiple applications
• Hands on experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines

DevOps & CI/CD

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD concepts: continuous integration, continuous delivery, and deployment
• Experience with build and deployment automation tools (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or equivalent)
• Familiarity with source control, branching strategies, and artifact management

Cloud & Platforms

• Experience supporting cloud or hybrid environments
• Understanding of infrastructure automation and environment orchestration is a plus

Release Governance & Agile

• Strong understanding of Agile, DevOps, and ITIL aligned release practices
• Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments with frequent releases "