Enterprise Release Lead: DevOps & Cloud Automation

Devopsroles; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 81,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

75% tuition discount

Competitive benefits package

Job summary

Penn State University invites a qualified professional to join our Enterprise CRM Program as Release Manager. This role steers release planning, DevOps automation, environment management, and quality assurance across development, testing, and production, ensuring traceable and reliable deployments.

The position requires expertise in SDLC, ITIL change control, and cloud platforms, with a focus on coordinating complex releases, SLA governance, and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Strong background in software development lifecycle (SDLC) processes.
• Experience with both waterfall and agile development methodologies.
• Demonstrated experience owning end-to-end software releases through production, including coordinating complex releases across multiple technical teams, applications or workstreams, and environments.
• Experience coordinating releases across development, testing/UAT, staging, and production environments.
• Salesforce-specific release management experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms, including AWS and/or Azure.
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or a comparable CI/CD and release management platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain comprehensive release management strategy and roadmap.
• Coordinate release schedules across multiple teams and projects.
• Define release criteria, processes, and approval workflows.
• Establish and monitor service level agreements for release activities.
• Deploy and maintain enterprise DevOps services to streamline release management.
• Enhance automation capabilities across the CI/CD pipeline.
• Implement and maintain deployment automation tools and processes.
• Ensure full environment traceability throughout the release lifecycle.
• Serve as point of contact for the purchased devops and backup tool.
• Maintain disaster recovery plans and support business continuity efforts, including monitoring and testing of backups.
• Oversee development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Maintain environment configuration consistency and documentation.
• Coordinate environment provisioning and capacity planning.
• Monitor environment health and performance metrics.
• Establish and enforce code versioning best practices.
• Implement deployment methodologies and standards.
• Conduct release readiness assessments and go/no-go decisions.
• Manage rollback procedures and incident response protocols.
• Facilitate release planning meetings and communication.
• Coordinate with development, QA, operations, and business teams.
• Provide release status updates to leadership and stakeholders.
• Manage change control processes and documentation.

Skills

SDLC processes

Waterfall & Agile

End-to-end releases

Multi-environment coordination

Salesforce release management

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure)

Azure DevOps / CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Penn State University invites a qualified professional to join our Enterprise CRM Program as Release Manager. This role steers release planning, DevOps automation, environment management, and quality assurance across development, testing, and production, ensuring traceable and reliable deployments.

The position requires expertise in SDLC, ITIL change control, and cloud platforms, with a focus on coordinating complex releases, SLA governance, and stakeholder communication.