Senior Release & Deployment Architect

DBS Bank Ltd; Singapore; On-site; SGD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

DBS Bank Ltd. is seeking an experienced Release & Deployment professional to govern and execute approved production and non-production releases.

The role focuses on secure, reliable deployments in a regulated environment, driving automation and standardization across CI/CD, OpenShift, and PAM controls. The ideal candidate will manage end-to-end release activities, review change requests, and coordinate with multiple teams to ensure compliant and timely implementations.

Qualifications

• 4-8 years of experience in Release Management, Production Support, Change Management, DevOps Operations, Production Operations, or IT Operations.
• Experience in Banking or Financial Services environments is highly preferred.
• Experience working in regulated production environments with strong governance, audit, risk, and security controls.
• Strong understanding of release governance, production change management, deployment controls, and operational support processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage the end-to-end release and deployment lifecycle, including change review, planning, implementation, validation, reporting, and post-implementation support.
• Review and validate Change Requests (CRs) to ensure implementation readiness, scope completeness, technical feasibility, risk assessment, rollback preparedness, and compliance with governance standards.
• Coordinate with Application Support, Engineering, Infrastructure, Middleware, Database, Security, and Platform teams to resolve implementation dependencies and ensure successful change execution.
• Execute production, pre-production, DR, and UAT deployments in accordance with approved implementation plans, ensuring no unauthorized changes or deviations during execution.
• Perform application releases, middleware deployments, database script execution, configuration updates, platform changes, and privileged-access related implementations.
• Ensure all deployment activities are executed within approved change windows and conform to security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
• Maintain segregation of duties and ensure deployment activities are performed only by authorized personnel.
• Provide Level-1 operational support for release and deployment-related incidents, deployment failures, production issues, and recovery activities.
• Participate in production war rooms, incident bridges, troubleshooting calls, and root cause investigations to restore services and improve operational resilience.
• Drive continuous improvement through deployment automation, process optimization, CI/CD adoption, runbook standardization, and operational excellence initiatives.

Skills

Release Management

Stakeholder Management

Communication

Analytical Thinking

Problem Solving

Operational Excellence

Tools

CyberArk

PAM

OpenShift

CI/CD

Deployment Tools

Job description

DBS Bank Ltd. is seeking an experienced Release & Deployment professional to govern and execute approved production and non-production releases.

The role focuses on secure, reliable deployments in a regulated environment, driving automation and standardization across CI/CD, OpenShift, and PAM controls. The ideal candidate will manage end-to-end release activities, review change requests, and coordinate with multiple teams to ensure compliant and timely implementations.