Release managers (Advanced) - Far Site - Within Europe

SEIDOR; Brussel Hoofdstad; Remote; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

SEIDOR is seeking a Release Manager to join our Brussels team, working fully remote within Europe. The role focuses on planning, coordinating, and overseeing the end-to-end release process, ensuring adherence to Change and Deployment Management and maintaining release governance across multiple teams.

The ideal candidate has extensive experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring tools, and Oracle WebLogic, with a track record of delivering complex enterprise releases in a multinational

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience with software development lifecycles (Agile/Waterfall/DevSecOps) and release planning.
• 10+ years of using CI/CD tools to enable automated builds and deployments.
• 10+ years of experience with version control systems and CI toolchains.
• 7+ years of experience with monitoring/logging tools to validate release stability post‑deployment.
• 3+ years of Oracle WebLogic experience (v14+).

Responsibilities

• Plan and coordinate release schedules and activities, maintain release calendar and manage dependencies.
• Oversee end-to-end release process ensuring alignment with Change/Deployment Management.
• Collaborate with development, testing, operations and business teams for readiness across the release pipeline.
• Ensure compliance with quality standards, release criteria, and audit requirements.

Skills

Release management

Agile

Stakeholder communication

Incident management

Education

Master’s degree or higher

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Jenkins

Bamboo

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Oracle WebLogic

Splunk

ELK Stack

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Will you join us in humanizing technology?

SEIDOR helps organisations transform and remain competitive through technology and innovation, always putting people first. With more than 8,000 professionals across 45 countries, we are a diverse and inclusive global team committed to talent, equal opportunities, and sustainable growth.

We are looking for a Release manager to join our team inBrussels, working Fully remote within Europe.

WHAT WILL YOU DO IN YOUR DAY-TO-DAY?

• Plan and coordinate release schedules and activities, maintain the enterprise release calendar, and manage dependencies to prevent change collisions.
• Manage and oversee the end-to-end release process, ensuring alignment with Change and Deployment Management processes.
• Collaborate with development, testing, operations, and business teams to ensure
  readiness and smooth coordination across the release pipeline.
• Ensure compliance with defined quality standards, release criteria, and regulatory and audit requirements for traceability.
• Identify, mitigate, and document potential release risks, including defining rollback and recovery procedures.
• Document release plans, processes, contingency strategies, and post-release reports to provide transparency and audit readiness.
• Conduct structured release readiness reviews and go/no-go meetings, validating test results, risk assessments, and rollback criteria.
• Monitor release progress and track metrics (deployment success rate, lead time, defect leakage), integrate with CI/CD pipelines and automation dashboards.
• Communicate release status, risks, and post-release outcomes to stakeholders using standardized reports and dashboards.
• Continuously improve release management processes by incorporating lessons learned, automation, and industry best practices.
• Oversee post-release hypercare to ensure stability, defect triage, and handover to operations.

Requirements

WHAT DO WE EXPECT FROM YOU?

• If holding a Master’s degree (EQF Level 7): min 10 years of experience.
• If holding Bachelor’s degree: min 12 years of experience
• working with software development lifecycles (such as Agile, Waterfall, DevSecOps
  or equivalent) and their impact on release planning and delivery.
• working with relational databases such as Oracle or equivalent.
• 10 years of experience using CI/CD tools (such as Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or equivalent) to enable automated builds and deployments.
• 10 years of experience using version control systems (such as Git, SVN or equivalent) and continuous integration toolchains (such Bamboo, Jenkins or equivalent).
• 7 years of experience using monitoring and logging tools (such as Splunk, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent) to validate release stability post-deployment.
• 3 years of experience in Oracle WebLogic (up to at least version 14 or more recent versions).

Certificates and/or standards:

One of the following or an equivalent certification:

• ITIL 4 or 5 Foundation
• an Agile delivery methodology certification (such as SAFe or equivalent)

Nice to have:

• 3 years of experience in containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• 3 years of experience in Java (version JDK 11 or more recent versions) and JEE (version 7 or more recent versions).
• 3 years of experience in deployment automation and release orchestration tools (such as XL Deploy, Harness, Spinnaker, or equivalent) to coordinate enterprise releases.
• 3 years of experience in release governance practices (such as change advisory boards, go/no-go criteria, rollback strategies or equivalent) for controlled deployments.
• 3 years of experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience using issue tracking tools (such as JIRA or equivalent) and
  collaboration tools (such as Confluence, SharePoint or equivalent) to support planning and delivery.