Software Release Manager
Aspire Personnel Ltd
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Job summary
Aspire Personnel Ltd. is seeking a Software Release Manager for a hybrid, permanent role in Poole, Dorset. You will coordinate the release lifecycle across engineering, product, QA, and infrastructure, ensuring safe deployments with minimal disruption and strong quality controls.
You will own planning, governance, deployment management, and post-release activities, collaborating with cross-functional teams and stakeholders in an Agile environment to continuously improve delivery.
Qualifications
- Strong release planning and organisational skills.
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Strong understanding of (SDLC) software delivery life cycle.
- Managing complex multi-team software releases.
- Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery environments.
- Managing production deployments and hot fixes.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
- Working with change management processes.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira or similar tooling, Octopus Deploy, Git/Bitbucket, Azure Cloud Services, SQL Server.
Responsibilities
- Release Planning and coordination
- Release Governance
- Deployment Management
- Risk and issue management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Post Release Activities
Skills
Education
Tools
Job description
Poole, Dorset
The Software Release Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, governing, and delivering software releases across multiple applications and environments. The role ensures that software deployments are delivered safely, efficiently, and with minimal business disruption whilst maintaining quality, compliance, and operational stability.
Working closely with Engineering, Product, QA, Infrastructure, and Support teams, the Software Release Manager owns the release life cycle from planning through deployment, post-release validation, and continuous improvement.
- Release Planning and coordination
- Release Governance
- Deployment Management
- Risk and issue management
- Stakeholder Communication
- Post Release Activities
- Strong release planning and organisational skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Strong understanding of (SDLC) software delivery life cycle
- Managing complex multi-team software releases
- Experience in Agile/Scrum delivery environmentsManaging production deployments and hot fixes
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines
- Working with change management processes
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira or similar tooling, Octopus Deploy, Git/Bitbucket, Azure Cloud Services, SQL Server,
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or related discipline
- ITIL Foundation Certification
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