We are looking for a skilled Release Manager who will join our Release Management department in a key position. The ideal candidate can work with teammates and troubleshoot problems, identify solutions, and assess situations in real-time. ✅
Responsibilities :
- Plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the release process, ensuring successful deployments across development, staging, and production environments.
- Verify and maintain release notes, deployment plans, and other relevant documentation to ensure all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
- Work closely with Operations, Infrastructure, Development, Legal, and Security teams.
- Build new and improve existing release processes (Jira, Gitlab), integrating business requirements and developer convenience.
- Implement, propagate and continuously improve release processes across dozens of development teams.
Our technology stack :
- We are working on in-house platform development with Node.js, JavaScript, and TypeScript.
- Our infrastructure is on bare metal and on AWS (EC2, EKS).
- We use Docker for containerization and Kubernetes for orchestration.
- Gitlab, Gitlab CI and Helm templates for continuous integration.
Requirements :
- Leadership and communication skills, ability to lead changes in a fast-growing environment.
- Strong understanding of Git, including branching strategies like Git Flow, GitHub Flow, Trunk-based development, and others.
- Familiarity with CI / CD practices, and understanding their role in automating and streamlining the release process.
- Knowledge of Quality Controls and test automation in agile-based continuous integration environments.
- Basic experience with Jenkins or Gitlab CI for automating builds and deployments.
- Understanding of what Kubernetes is and experience of working with it as a user.
- Understanding of microservice architecture principles.
- Understanding of databases, hands-on experience with any of relational databases, ability to build queries with SQL.
Nice to have :
- Experience in Quality Assurance, with knowledge of testing practices and methodologies.
- Experience running and reviewing automated tests, with a focus on ensuring the quality and stability of releases.
- Knowledge of monitoring tools like Grafana, Kibana, or Coralogix for tracking application performance and identifying issues.
- Experience with Node.js, JavaScript, TypeScript.
- Experience with Unleash and its webhooks and integration.
✅ We offer excellent benefits, including but not limited to :