Release Lead: CI/CD & Platform Deployments

Quality Professionals | Software Testing & QA; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 300,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Quality Professionals (Q-Pros) is seeking a Release Lead to govern end-to-end release lifecycles for CDP applications in the UAE. You will establish standardized release processes and coordinate across multiple projects, driving CI/CD/DevOps adoption and ensuring safe, efficient releases with minimal business disruption.

The role requires hands-on experience with release governance, JIRA tracking, and cross-functional collaboration with Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams

Qualifications

• Proven experience as Release Lead/Manager in large-scale environments.
• Strong understanding of release lifecycles for SaaS and enterprise apps.
• Hands-on with CI/CD, DevOps, automated deployments, and containerization.
• Experience with release governance and CAB processes.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain the Release Policy, Master Release Plan, and End-to-End Release Gate process.
• Own and maintain the Master Release Calendar and coordinate schedules across projects.
• Collaborate with Change Management to ensure readiness checks and CAB approvals.
• Drive CI/CD and DevOps adoption, with automated deployments across environments.
• Establish automated release practices using DevOps, BDD, and containerized deployment.
• Coordinate with Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Security and Change teams for repeatable releases.
• Define release readiness criteria, gates, checklists, rollback plans, and post-release validation.
• Manage release dependencies across applications, platforms, integrations, and SaaS solutions.
• Use JIRA to track activities, risks, issues, and readiness.
• Set up monitoring and release dashboards to support deployment validation and issue detection.
• Provide regular release status and KPI reports to CDP leadership.

Skills

Release Lead/Release Manager

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps practices

JIRA

Monitoring and release tooling

Stakeholder management

Automation

Problem solving

Tools

JIRA

CI/CD tooling

Monitoring tools

Job description

Quality Professionals (Q-Pros) is seeking a Release Lead to govern end-to-end release lifecycles for CDP applications in the UAE. You will establish standardized release processes and coordinate across multiple projects, driving CI/CD/DevOps adoption and ensuring safe, efficient releases with minimal business disruption.

The role requires hands-on experience with release governance, JIRA tracking, and cross-functional collaboration with Development, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, and Security teams