Enterprise Release & DevOps Lead

The Pennsylvania State University; University Park (TX); On-site; USD 8,100 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

75% tuition discount

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Robust retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Penn State University is seeking a Release Manager to drive the Enterprise CRM program, coordinating release strategy, schedules, and governance across multiple teams. The role spans DevOps, automation, and environment management to ensure reliable production deployments.

The position emphasizes SDLC, Agile/Waterfall practices, Salesforce release management, and ITIL-aligned change control. ETZ hours apply with potential off-hours deployments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree 3+ years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Senior Professional: Bachelor's Degree 6+ years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain release management strategy and roadmap.
• Coordinate release schedules across teams and projects.
• Define release criteria, processes and approval workflows.
• Establish and monitor SLAs for release activities.
• Deploy and maintain enterprise DevOps services.
• Ensure environment traceability throughout release lifecycle.
• Coordinate environment provisioning and capacity planning.

Skills

SDLC knowledge

Waterfall & Agile

End-to-end release ownership

Salesforce release management

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Azure DevOps

ITIL practices

Project management

Change control & incident response

Risk assessment

Regulatory compliance

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

Deployment automation tools

Backup & DR tooling

Job description

Penn State University is seeking a Release Manager to drive the Enterprise CRM program, coordinating release strategy, schedules, and governance across multiple teams. The role spans DevOps, automation, and environment management to ensure reliable production deployments.

The position emphasizes SDLC, Agile/Waterfall practices, Salesforce release management, and ITIL-aligned change control. ETZ hours apply with potential off-hours deployments.