Senior Release Manager

Senior Release Manager Pune, Maharashtra, India | Full-time What you will be doing: You will be responsible for the Release Management lifecycle that involves scheduling the release, intra and inter-team coordination, and deployment of release as per the schedule and within budget. Communicating release plans, progress, and changes. Own, implement, and enhance branching strategies. Manage cross-functional dependencies. Work with release engineers to understand impacts of branches and code merges Produce deployment, implementation, and run book plans. Conduct Release Readiness, Milestone, and Business Go/No-Go reviews Ensure all pre and post-release steps are being implemented including JIRA updates, release notes, post-release verification, and communication. Generate weekly, monthly, and quarterly business-friendly release KPIs and metrics to measure the improvements and success of overall SDLC. Transitioning the team to a DevOps CI/CD multi-tenant application release model. Identify gaps in the release process, recommend process and automation improvements Research new software development and deployment methodologies and technologies and analyze their application to needs Required Skills: 12+ years of experience in managing releases of which, 6+ years is in managing Agile releases 8+ years of experience working with development teams either in Release Manager, test engineer, project manager or developer capacity. 3+ years of experience working with geographically distributed teams. BA/BS in a computer-science related discipline Experience in transitioning teams to a DevOps CI/CD release model. Well versed with on-prem and cloud application releases (AWS/Azure) Power Atlassian (JIRA/Confluence/GIT) user. Strong understanding of KPIs to measure progress and success. Effective leadership and analytical skills Advanced written and verbal communication skills APPLY HERE: Helping startups & midsize enterprises adopt cloud-native tech with our products and services. #Containers #Kubernetes #CloudNative Experts. We are working with Bay area-based startups helping them build container orchestration/networking/storage/security products. And on another hand we work with enterprises helping Automotive, FinTech, Energy companies adopt Kubernetes and container ecosystem to modernize their applications and infrastructure. We are a premier technology company comprising of elite software programmers coupled with have strong experience in Serverless, Container, Container Orchestration, Cloud platforms, Infrastructure automation, SDN, Big Data Infrastructure Solutions. We are 1st Kubernetes Partner in India, only other in APAC region. Our deep expertise and focus in these areas enable our customers to build better software, faster. We are organizers of local chapters of Serverless & Kubernetes Meetup and actively involved in building a community for new technologies in Cloud & DevOps space.