Enterprise Release Manager — DevOps & SDLC Lead

Penn State Lady Lions; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Tuition discount (75%)

Retirement plans

Paid time off

Job summary

Penn State University is seeking a Release Manager to orchestrate software releases across development, testing, and production within the Enterprise CRM Program. This role blends DevOps practices with project management to ensure reliable, traceable deployments across the university's systems.

You will lead release planning, coordinate across teams, enforce release criteria, manage environments, and participate in risk and change control.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree required or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 3+ years of relevant experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience owning end-to-end releases through production and coordinating across teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain 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; enhance CI/CD automation.
• Ensure environment traceability and manage rollback procedures.

Skills

SDLC processes

Waterfall & Agile

End-to-end release management

CI/CD tooling

Azure DevOps

Salesforce release management

AWS/Azure cloud

ITIL practices

Education

Bachelor’s Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

CI/CD tooling

Deployment automation tools

Job description

Penn State University is seeking a Release Manager to orchestrate software releases across development, testing, and production within the Enterprise CRM Program. This role blends DevOps practices with project management to ensure reliable, traceable deployments across the university's systems.

You will lead release planning, coordinate across teams, enforce release criteria, manage environments, and participate in risk and change control.