Job Description :
Job Position : Release Manager
Job Location: Reston, VA
Job Duration: 6+ Months
Face-Face required- Local or nearby who can attend F2F interview
Your future duties and responsibilities
Provide central point of contact across multiple portfolios for Release Execution support.
Lead and coordinate Software release planning, schedule and deployment management at a program level for different initiatives. This includes baseline management, version controls, implementation runbooks/plans, communication plans, etc.
Through PGRM Command Center during cutover; execution of deployment plan, perform and manage Go/No Go checklists, resource and deployment coverage management, and communications to stakeholders.
Understanding of Configuration Management best practices and standards to assist in deployment planning as well as coordination efforts with the Enterprise Configuration Management team.
Participate in deployment activities and post deployment retrospective and monitor resolution of identified issues through upcoming releases.
Partner with Enterprise Release Management team, impacted technology system owners to review deployment plans and supporting requirements to create program level deployment plans
Determine environment planning impacts of various program assumptions including: Parallel Testing, Business Continuity Planning, Release and Roll-back planning
Required qualifications to be successful in this role
5-7 years of SDLC Release Management experience
Managed multiple/concurrent releases in the parallel development, waterfall and Agile methodologies.
Managed code deployments to test and production environments.
Understanding of Configuration Management best practices.
Following are a plus:
1. UNIX scripting in any flavor.
2. DevOps experience using Jenkins