Location: Buffalo, NY
Salary: $55.00 USD Hourly - $60.00 USD Hourly
Description: Technical Engineer III / Release Manager Location: Buffalo, NY (Hybrid - 4 Days Onsite)
Duration: Long-Term Contract with Possible Extension/Conversion
Job Summary We are seeking an experienced
Technical Engineer III / Release Manager to lead and coordinate enterprise application releases across development, QA, infrastructure, security, and business teams. This role is responsible for driving release governance, deployment planning, change management, production implementation, and release readiness activities within a highly regulated environment.
The ideal candidate will possess strong release management experience, excellent stakeholder communication skills, and a solid understanding of DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, cloud deployment practices, and SDLC governance.
Key Responsibilities - Coordinate application releases from development through production deployment.
- Manage release schedules, release calendars, and deployment activities across multiple teams.
- Lead release readiness reviews, ensuring testing, approvals, documentation, rollback plans, and audit requirements are completed.
- Facilitate production deployments, deployment bridges, validation activities, and release closure.
- Identify release risks, dependencies, conflicts, and resource constraints and drive mitigation plans.
- Ensure compliance with governance, change management, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Execute and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation processes.
- Support cloud migration initiatives and modern application delivery practices.
- Conduct post-release reviews and implement process improvements.
- Partner with development, infrastructure, QA, security, and business stakeholders to ensure successful delivery.
Required Qualifications - 5+ years of Release Management, Release Engineering, DevOps, Change Management, or Production Deployment experience.
- Strong experience coordinating complex enterprise software releases.
- Experience working within SDLC, governance, compliance, and audit-controlled environments.
- Knowledge of CI/CD concepts, deployment automation, and release processes.
- Hands-on experience with Git-based source control systems.
- Experience managing multiple concurrent releases and priorities.
- Excellent communication, organizational, and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working with cross-functional technical and business teams.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications - Financial Services or Banking industry experience.
- Experience with GitLab and Azure DevOps.
- Azure cloud deployment experience.
- PowerShell scripting experience.
- Experience supporting on-premises to cloud migration initiatives.
- Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and modern DevOps practices.
- Experience supporting evening or after-hours production deployments.
Technical Environment - GitLab
- Azure DevOps
- Azure Pipelines
- CI/CD Automation
- PowerShell
- Release Management Tools
- Change Management Platforms
- Cloud Deployment Technologies
- SDLC Governance & Compliance
Medical, dental, and vision insurance are available to qualified candidates who meet eligibility requirements.
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