DevSecOps Release Manager ( Saudi national only )

Oivan; Saudi Arabia; On-site; SAR 210,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

Oivan seeks a DevSecOps Release Manager to own the release lifecycle from planning to production. You will ensure controlled, evidence-based processes with security, quality, and rollback checkpoints, delivering faster releases with measurable KPIs.

You will coordinate across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support to keep release progress aligned with business goals and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in release management, DevOps coordination, or related fields.
• Experience coordinating production releases for digital platforms.
• Cross-functional collaboration with Product, Engineering, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support.
• Understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release gates, and rollback planning.
• Familiarity with governance, evidence-based approvals, and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and coordinate end-to-end release calendar, scope, dependencies, priorities, and readiness.
• Coordinate release activities across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support.
• Prepare and maintain release evidence packs including test evidence, security scans, and rollback plans.
• Track quality, security, artifact, and operational readiness gates before production release.
• Monitor risks, go/no-go readiness, and track release KPIs like deployment frequency and MTTR.
• Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant teams.
• Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.

Job description

We are looking for a DevSecOps Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle. The Release Manager will act as the single owner for release progress, ensuring that every release follows a controlled, evidence-based process with clear quality, security, operational readiness, approval, and rollback check points to have a safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs.

What We Need

We are looking for a DevSecOps Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle. The Release Manager will act as the single owner for release progress, ensuring that every release follows a controlled, evidence-based process with clear quality, security, operational readiness, approval, and rollback check points to have a safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs.

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and coordinate the end-to-end release calendar, release scope, dependencies, priorities, and readiness tracking.
• Coordinate release activities across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support teams.
• Prepare and maintain release evidence packs, including test evidence, security scan results, operational readiness, approval status, known risks, dependencies, and rollback plans.
• Track completion of quality, security, artifact, and operational readiness gates before production release.
• Monitor exceptions, risks, open issues, and go/no-go readiness status.
• Track release quality checks such as code review, regression testing, UI checks, security scans, dependency checks, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant technical teams.
• Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.
• Track release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, hotfix frequency, bug escape rate, MTTR, and gate compliance.
• Support continuous improvement in release predictability, quality, security, and operational readiness.

What You Have

Required Experience

• 3–5 years of experience in release management, DevOps coordination, DevSecOps, technical delivery management, quality assurance, or platform operations.
• Experience supporting or coordinating production releases for digital platforms.
• Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support.
• Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release gates, deployment approvals, environment promotion, and rollback planning.
• Familiarity with release governance, change control, evidence-based approvals, and production readiness.
• Basic to practical understanding of DevSecOps practices such as SAST, DAST, dependency checks, QA activities, monitoring, and operational readiness.
• Experience with agile delivery, Jira, GitLab, dashboards, release calendars, and risk/dependency tracking.

Required Skills

• Strong coordination, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus.
• Ability to work under pressure during production releases and incidents.
• Strong documentation and reporting discipline.
• Ability to balance delivery speed with production safety.
• Ownership mindset and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to identify incomplete readiness, highlight rollback gaps, and escape risks clearly.

Success Measures

• Improved release predictability and readiness.
• Reduction in production surprises and emergency fixes.
• Clear visibility of release decisions, risks, and escalations.
• Increased gate compliance across quality, security, and operations.
• Improved visibility through release dashboards and evidence packs.
• Reduced hotfix frequency and bug escape rate.
• Improved rollback and recovery readiness.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Engagement: Full-time / onsite or hybrid based on account needs

Reporting To: Service Delivery Manager / Account Leadership

Nationality Requirement: Saudi national only