Mobile Release Orchestrator

Avance Consulting; Grimsby; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Avance Consulting is seeking an experienced Release Engineer to own the end-to-end release lifecycle for iOS, Android, and backend services. You will coordinate across Product, Engineering and QA, manage CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliable, well-communicated releases across platforms and environments.

You will also lead incident response, feature flag governance, and release documentation, ensuring quality gates and rollout readiness for apps in production.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication with proactive stakeholder management.
• Mobile application release lifecycle expertise (iOS & Android).
• Experience with mobile CI/CD and release automation.
• Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions and/or CircleCI.
• Kubernetes fundamentals.
• Feature flag management in production environments.
• Cross-functional release coordination across Product, Engineering and QA.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the release calendar across iOS, Android, and backend platforms.
• Coordinate release scope with Product Managers, Engineering Leads, QA, and Ops.
• Ensure alignment on priorities, timelines, and dependencies across teams.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews and go/no-go decisions.
• Oversee end-to-end release execution, including build, testing, and deployment phases.
• Coordinate mobile app submissions (App Store & Google Play).
• Manage backend release deployments, ensuring compatibility with mobile versions.
• Ensure versioning, tagging, and branching strategies are followed consistently.
• Execute and coordinate production releases for mobile applications and supporting backend services.
• Manage release schedules and deployment activities across multiple environments.
• Own production feature flag management, including planning, enabling, disabling, validating, and monitoring feature flags throughout the release lifecycle.
• Support production incidents related to deployments, feature flags, and release activities, coordinating with engineering teams to restore service where required.
• Monitor release health and coordinate issue resolution with engineering teams.
• Ensure deployment checklists and release runbooks are followed.
• Support production rollbacks when required.
• Act as the central point of communication for all release-related activities.
• Proactively communicate release progress, risks, blockers, deployment status, and production issues to engineering, product, and business stakeholders.
• Ensure all release activities are clearly documented and communicated before, during, and after deployments.
• Translate technical updates into concise, business-friendly communication where appropriate.
• Maintain release documentation, release notes, deployment records, and post-release summaries.
• Identify, track, and mitigate release risks and dependencies.
• Coordinate resolution of blocking issues and incidents during release cycles.
• Lead rollback planning and execution where required.
• Drive continuous improvement of release management processes and tooling.
• Implement and maintain best practices for CI/CD pipelines and automation.
• Partner with QA to ensure robust testing and release quality gates.
• Analyse release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, release success rate, and rollback incidents to drive continuous improvement.
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive release tasks and improve deployment efficiency.

Skills

Release lifecycle

Mobile CI/CD

Git & GitHub

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Kubernetes fundamentals

Feature flags

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

Git

GitHub

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Kubernetes

Job description

Avance Consulting is seeking an experienced Release Engineer to own the end-to-end release lifecycle for iOS, Android, and backend services. You will coordinate across Product, Engineering and QA, manage CI/CD pipelines, and drive reliable, well-communicated releases across platforms and environments.

You will also lead incident response, feature flag governance, and release documentation, ensuring quality gates and rollout readiness for apps in production.