Infrastructure Release Analyst

Compunnel Inc.; Taylor (TX); On-site; USD 82,656 - 92,299; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Infrastructure Release Analyst to enhance their IT operations. This dynamic role involves overseeing infrastructure changes, managing release cycles, and ensuring compliance with security standards. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize release management processes and utilize advanced tools like Jira and ServiceNow for tracking and approvals. If you are passionate about driving improvements and have a strong background in IT infrastructure, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing infrastructure and application releases in IT Operations.
• Strong skills in coordinating cross-functional teams and release planning.

Responsibilities

• Oversee changes affecting infrastructure and ensure compliance with IT policies.
• Manage end-to-end release cycles for applications and infrastructure.

Skills

Infrastructure Management

Release Planning

Change Management

Performance Monitoring

Collaboration

Root Cause Analysis

Tools

Jira

ServiceNow

Ansible

Terraform

Azure

Job description

This range is provided by Compunnel Inc.. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$60.00/hr - $67.00/hr

Job Title - Infrastructure Release Analyst (W2 ONLY)

Job Location - Taylor, Texas, USA, 76574

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USC/GC/EAD only / Residing in US

Job Description

Responsibilities:

Provides support, oversight, administration, and facilitation of changes that affect facilities, infrastructure, hardware, operating systems, database platforms, firmware, network, and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations. Ensure audit tracking, reliability, availability, correct functionality, system integrity, and risk mitigation in IT Service Delivery model by coordinating, communicating, and recording changes to non-development environments.

Release Planning & Coordination

• Organize and lead effective release planning meetings, ensuring cross-functional alignment across application, infrastructure, and cloud teams.
• Define and maintain a structured release calendar for applications and infrastructure, including OS patching, cloud deployments, middleware upgrades, and security updates.
• Establish a consistent and predictable release cadence across IT applications, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components.

Release Execution & Governance

• Manage end-to-end infrastructure/application release cycles, coordinating on-premises and/or cloud environments to minimize disruptions.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise IT policies and security standards while executing application and infrastructure releases.
• Track release deliverables, security compliance checks, and functional/security test approvals, ensuring production readiness.
• Monitor infrastructure changes, including system upgrades, network modifications, storage enhancements, and patching cycles.
• Provide oversight for OS patching, covering major and minor updates for Windows, Linux along with firmware updates for storage and network CIs and other enterprise systems.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure deployments - Azure, ensuring successful configuration and validation.
• Collaborate with DevOps and IT System Reliability teams to integrate automated release pipelines, CI/CD best practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Utilize IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning and release management.

Security & Compliance

• Ensure infrastructure releases comply with security policies and CIP regulatory requirements.

Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Track and report key release performance metrics, including patch deployment success rates, release cycle efficiency, system downtime, and rollback trends.
• Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reviews for failed or delayed releases, driving process improvements.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Act as a liaison between development, operations, cloud, and security teams to optimize infrastructure release management.
• Provide support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB), ensuring infrastructure changes are properly assessed and documented.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies for application and infrastructure releases, maintaining up-to-date documentation.

Jira/ServiceNow & ITSM Integration

• Utilize Jira/ServiceNow to manage release workflows, change approvals, and infrastructure deployment tracking.
• Support ITSM processes, including Change, Release, Incident, and Problem Management.

Seniority level

Mid-Senior level

Employment type

Contract

Job function

Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution