Head of Release and Deployment Management

Eurofins; Braga; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work mode

Tools provided (phone, laptop)

International environment

Job summary

Eurofins is seeking a Head of Release and Deployment Management to lead the safe, scalable delivery of changes across a growing portfolio of IT solutions. The role combines technical ownership with operational leadership and cross-functional coordination.

You will oversee release lifecycles for 500+ production instances, ensuring compliant, disruption-free deployments and ongoing process improvements within a hybrid work setting.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• 8–10 years in Release engineering, deployment management, or DevOps roles.
• Hands-on deployment execution and troubleshooting experience.
• Experience with IaC and ITSM tools is beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Execute end-to-end deployments across non-production and production environments.
• Maintain and optimize deployment pipelines, configurations, and automation scripts.
• Troubleshoot deployment failures, analyze root causes, and implement fixes.
• Ensure releases meet quality, security, and operational standards.
• Own deployment tooling and coordinate with automation teams.

Skills

Release engineering

Deployment management

DevOps

ITIL

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Management, or equivalent experience

Tools

Terraform

ServiceNow

BMC Helix

Jira

Job description

Head of Release and Deployment Management

Full-time

Why are we here?

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

All the business scopes, one of them being LATAM, are supported from the information security perspective in dual model: core services delivered from a central team and peripheral or local services under the local responsibility of the RISO (Regional Information Security Officer / and team). There is an agreed split of responsibility between the regional and group team and dotted line management ensures full alignment.

In a nutshell

As a Head of Release and Deployment Management, you will be accountable for the safe, predictable, and scalable delivery of changes across a growing portfolio of GSC IT Solutions. Your role will be key ingoverning the end-to-end Release lifecycle across more than 500 Production instances in target, ensuring that IT Applications, infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Releases reach Production securely and without disruption to Business Operations. Combining technical ownership, operational leadership, and cross-functional coordination, your role will be critical to service continuity, deployment quality, regulatory compliance, and the organisation ability to deliver change at scale.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

Based in Braga, Portugal; you will join a globally distributed team in the Food and Environment Testing.

How can you help us?

You will work on the following areas:

Release & Deployment Execution, to:

• Execute and manage end-to-end deployments across non-production and production environments.
• Maintain and optimise deployment pipelines, technical configurations, and automation scripts.
• Actively troubleshoot deployment failures, analyse root causes, and have fixes tested and implemented.
• Ensure all Releases meet quality, security, and operational standards.

Technical Ownership, to:

• Own deployment tooling (CI/CD pipelines, Release orchestration tools).
• Raise new requirements to the Automation team, test and follow-up on their deliveries to ensure best-in-class tooling for the Release team.
• Ensure technical pre-requisites are implemented and validated before any Release deployment as per Release Notes.
• Optimise technical configurations maintenance and maintainability.
• Participate in incident resolution related to deployments and technical configuration.

Coordination & Governance, to:

• Coordinate Release schedules and dependencies across multiple teams.
• Ensure compliance with ITIL Change Management process.
• Drive clear communication between technical teams and business stakeholders.
• Anticipate and mitigate risks, unblock proactively challenging situations with Product teams or Business stakeholders.
• Identify and implement improvements in deployment processes, automation, and tooling.
• Improve cost efficiency of the team, looking at tooling performance, scalability and reliability.
• Contribute to standardisation across a large and growing IT Applications landscape.
• Promote DevOps best practices and automation-first mindset.
• Enhance and document Release & Deployment processes and evangelise Business representatives.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or Information Management, or equivalent experience.
• 8–10 years of experience in Release engineering, deployment management, or DevOps-oriented roles
• Proven experience in hands-on deployment execution and troubleshooting.
• Strong practical knowledge in several of the following areas:
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (or equivalent)
• ITSM Tools: ServiceNow, BMC Helix, Jira

You are:

• A doer, not only a coordinator.
• Able to diagnose issues quickly and fix them.
• Driven to automate, optimise, and scale.
• Organised, structured, adaptable in complex environments.
• A good blend of technical, process and people management skills.

What do we offer?

• Stable employment - a company that is a leader in its field.
• Package of necessary tools for work - phone, laptop.
• Work in an international company.
• Work in hybrid mode - 4 days of work from the office each week.

We support your development!Do you feel like you don’t match 100% of the requirements? Don’t hesitate to apply anyway! Eurofins companies are committed to supporting your career development.

Weembracediversity!

As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the Eurofins network of companies believes in strength and innovation through diversity. We prohibit discrimination against employees or applications based on gender identity and/or expression, race, nationality, age, religion, sexual orientation, disability, and everything else that makes employees of Eurofins companies unique.

Find out more on our Careers page:https://careers.eurofins.com/

Company description:Eurofins Scientific is an international network of independent life sciences companies, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic and labelling is accurate.
The Eurofins network of companies believes that it is a global leader in food, environment, pharmaceutical and cosmetic product testing and in discovery pharmacology, forensics, advanced material sciences and agroscience contract research services. It is also one of the market leaders in certain testing and laboratory services for genomics, and in the support of clinical studies, as well as in biopharma contract development and manufacturing. It also has a rapidly developing presence in highly specialised and molecular clinical diagnostic testing and in-vitro diagnostic products.

In under 40 years, Eurofins has grown from one laboratory in Nantes, France to over 65,000 employees across a decentralised and entrepreneurial network of over 950 laboratories in over 1,000 independent companies across 59 countries. Eurofins companies offer a portfolio of over 200,000 analytical methods to evaluate the safety, identity, composition, authenticity, origin, traceability and purity of biological substances and products.

The Eurofins network generated EUR 7.296 billion revenues in FY 2025, and has been one of the fastest growing listed European companies for almost three decades.