Technical Release Manager

Summary

The Technical Release Delivery Coordinator will manage and oversee the release management lifecycle, ensuring timely and efficient releases across multiple environments. The ideal candidate will have expertise in ADO pipeline management, PowerShell scripting, and optionally AWS infrastructure management and Terraform. They will work closely with development, QA, and operations teams to implement and manage CI/CD pipelines, automate release processes, and ensure seamless integration and deployment. The role also involves identifying and mitigating release risks, ensuring compliance, and continuously improving release processes.

Your role in our mission

Release Planning & Coordination

• Collaborate with engineering leadership and development teams to monitor progress toward release milestones.
• Coordinate with Solutions Train Engineers and Product Support Project Managers to track client-specific release versions.
• Maintain and update the Patch Calendar Wiki, including delivery dates, approval guidelines, and client release plans.

Milestone Management

• Ensure all stakeholders (e.g., database administrators, release packaging, documentation teams) are aligned with delivery timelines.
• Escalate blockers and risks that may impact release schedules.
• Track and communicate the status of incremental deliveries (patches) and off-cycle deliveries (hotfixes).

Release Execution

• Coordinate code freeze milestones and ensure repository snapshots are captured accurately.
• Facilitate packaging of release artifacts including binaries, databases, configurations, and documentation.
• Verify production implementations and ensure all components meet the Definition of Done.

What we're looking for

• ADO Pipeline: Proficiency in setting up/implement and managing Azure DevOps pipelines for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD).
• PowerShell: Strong scripting skills for automation, configuration, and management tasks.
• GitHub: Experience in GitHub source code administration. Basic commands and configuration management with GitHub
• Packaging and Delivery: Develop containers (e.g., Dockerfile) and npm serverless (e.g., AWS Lambda) YAML configuration files to deploy data science applications.

Optional Skills:

• AWS Infrastructure Management: Experience in creating and maintaining servers, storage, and other infrastructure components on AWS.

Terraform: Knowledge of using Terraform for infrastructure as code (IaC) to automate the provisioning and management of cloud resources