Cybersecurity Release Manager Network Segmentation and Remediation
Chicago, United States | Posted on 10/21/2026
Role: Cybersecurity Release Manager NetworkSegmentation and Remediation
Location:Chicago, IL(Hybrid - Onsite 3days/Week)
Duration: 10 months
Experience Required:
AnySecurity exp
Network Segmentation
AnyCloud but would prefer Azure Cloud
Proper Release Management exp
Financial Industry exp preferred
Experience Desired:
- Release & Change Management (8 yrs),
- CI/CD & Deployment (8 yrs),
- Security & Infrastructure (8 yrs)
Required Minimum Education:
Bachelor’s Degree
Required Experience:
- Implied requirement: Proven experience inFinancial Services or similarly regulated environments (may substitute forformal education).
Required Skill:
- Proven experience delivering infrastructure,security, or regulatory remediation initiatives in Financial Services orsimilarly regulated environments
- Strong understanding of change management,release governance, and risk controls
- Experience coordinating releases across multipleteams, vendors, and time zones
- Excellent organizational skills with ability tomanage multiple concurrent releases without loss of control or visibility
- Strong communication skills, able to explaincomplex release risks and decisions to technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience with release and change trackingtools such as ServiceNow, Azure DevOps (ADO), JIRA, or equivalent platforms
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and how theyapply in controlled enterprise environments
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365and MS Teams for coordination and reporting
- Experience supporting releases involvingnetwork, firewall, identity, or cloud security components is strongly preferred
- Release Planning & Coordination
- Cross-Functional Execution
Job Description:
- The client seeks an experienced Release Managerto support the delivery of strategic cybersecurity remediation initiatives,including network segmentation security controls.
- The Release Manager will be accountable forplanning, coordinating, and governing releases across multiple workstreams toensure changes are introduced into production in a predictable, secure, andcompliant manner.
- This role operates within a heavily regulatedfinancial services environment and requires close alignment with SecurityEngineering and Program Delivery functions.
- Define, maintain, and execute integrated releaseplans across multiple cybersecurity workstreams and delivery teams.
- Coordinate release activities spanning planning, build, and test, validation, and deployment phases.
- Ensure releases are aligned with programmilestones, regulatory commitments, and dependency constraints.
- Manage release calendars and resolve conflictsacross parallel initiatives and shared environments.
- Partner with technology Change Management teamsto ensure all releases comply with internal change control, approval, and auditrequirements.
- Identify, assess, and manage release-relatedrisks, including environment readiness, dependency misalignment, and rollbackconsiderations.
- Ensure release artefacts (release notes,deployment plans, and back-out procedures) are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
- Support governance routines by providing clearvisibility into upcoming releases, risks, and go/no-go decisions.
- Act as a central coordination point betweenSecurity Engineers, Infrastructure & app teams, and project resources.
- Support planning and execution for complexinfrastructure and security-related changes.
- Coordinate testing and validation activities toensure solutions meet security, operational, and regulatory expectations beforerelease.
- Manage communications to stakeholders before,during, and after releases to ensure transparency and alignment