Manager, Release Management

Ingram Micro Inc; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 116,000 - 197,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare benefits

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Parental leave

Disability coverage

Life insurance

Job summary

Ingram Micro Inc. is seeking a Manager of Release Management to lead a team responsible for safe, predictable software delivery across the Xvantage platform. You will oversee release governance, automation initiatives, and stakeholder communication.

You will guide a distributed team, champion progressive delivery, and align release practices with SOX and internal controls while partnering with engineering, QA, and operations.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in release, deployment or change management within large-scale enterprise software or e-commerce.
• 3+ years of direct people management with evidence of improving team capability.
• Deep knowledge of ITIL change management, risk classification, CAB processes and audits.
• Hands-on with CI/CD tooling and pipelines; capable of challenging deployment plans.
• Experience running production releases with meaningful business impact.
• Ability to hold a release gate closed under pressure from stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to brief executives during incidents.
• Preferred: progressive delivery, ServiceNow, IaC, and multi-time zone leadership.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of release engineers and coordinators, set standards, and develop people.
• Own the production release calendar end to end, including go/no-go decisions.
• Drive automation to reduce deployment duration and manual effort.
• Manage change with SOX compliance and audit evidence; maintain governance.
• Communicate release scope and risks clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Coordinate cross-team and third-party dependencies ahead of each release window.

Skills

Release management

People management

ITIL change management

CI/CD tooling

Production releases

Release governance

Effective communication

AI tooling (practical)

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Bitbucket Pipelines

ServiceNow

Job description

Accelerate your career. Join the organization that's driving the world's technology and shape the future. Ingram Micro is a leading technology company for the global information technology ecosystem. With the ability to reach nearly 90% of the global population, we play a vital role in the worldwide IT sales channel, bringing products and services from technology manufacturers and cloud providers to business-to-business technology experts. Our market reach, diverse solutions and services portfolio, and digital platform Ingram Micro Xvantage set us apart. Learn more at www.ingrammicro.com Come join our team where you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. Let’s shape tomorrow - it’ll be a fun journey!

The Manager, Release Management owns the safe, predictable delivery of software into production across the Xvantage platform. This is a people‑leadership role: you will manage a team of release engineers and coordinators, set the standards they work to, and be accountable for both the outcome of every production release and the development of the people who run them. The role sits at the intersection of engineering, QA, operations and the business. You will spend as much time negotiating scope, sequencing dependencies and holding a release gate closed as you will improving the mechanics of deployment. The organization is moving from scheduled, monolithic release events toward progressive, decoupled delivery — this role leads that transition.

Your Role

Team leadership: Manage, coach and develop a team of release engineers and coordinators, including goal setting, performance reviews and career development. Establish primary and backup coverage for every critical release responsibility, eliminating single points of failure in the weekend release model. Build follow‑the‑sun capability across regions so release execution is not dependent on a single geography.

Release execution and governance: Own the production release calendar end to end — planning, readiness assessment, go/no‑go decisions, execution oversight and post‑release validation. Chair release readiness and go/no‑go reviews, and hold the authority to delay or reject a release that does not meet entry criteria. Own change management standards for the platform: change request quality, approval routing, risk classification and audit evidence. Maintain compliance with SOX, internal audit and regulatory control requirements applicable to production change.

Deployment engineering and continuous improvement: Drive down deployment duration and manual effort through automation, parallelisation and shift‑left improvements agreed with Engineering, QA and Operations. Lead adoption of progressive delivery practices — canary, blue‑green and feature flags — so that code deployment is decoupled from feature enablement. Own root cause analysis for release‑related incidents and ensure lessons learned are captured, published and acted on. Introduce AI‑assisted tooling into daily release operations where it demonstrably reduces effort or improves analysis quality.

Stakeholder management: Act as the single point of accountability for release status to engineering leadership, business stakeholders and executive sponsors. Communicate release scope, risk and outcomes clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences, including during live incidents. Coordinate cross‑team dependencies — including third‑party and integration dependencies — ahead of each release window.

What you bring to the role

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Experience — 7+ years of experience in release, deployment or change management within a large-scale enterprise software or e-commerce environment.
• Leadership — 3+ years of direct people management, with demonstrable evidence of developing engineers and improving team capability.
• Deep working knowledge of ITIL change management, including risk classification, CAB processes and audit evidence requirements.
• Hands‑on familiarity with CI/CD tooling and pipelines, and enough technical depth to challenge an engineering team's deployment plan.
• Experience running production releases for a platform with meaningful business impact — where a failed release has commercial consequences.
• Proven ability to hold a release gate closed under pressure from delivery stakeholders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, including the ability to brief executives during a live production issue.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience implementing progressive delivery — feature flags, canary or blue‑green deployment — in an enterprise setting.
• Working knowledge of ServiceNow change management and DevOps integrations.
• Exposure to infrastructure‑as‑code and pipeline‑driven deployment (Terraform, Bitbucket Pipelines, Kubernetes).
• Experience operating within SOX or comparable regulatory control frameworks.
• Practical use of AI tooling to reduce operational or analytical effort.
• Experience managing a distributed team across multiple time zones.

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The typical base pay range for this role across the U.S. is USD $116,000.00 - $197,200.00 per year. The ranges above reflect the potential annual base pay across the U.S. for all roles; the applicable base pay range will depend on the candidate’s primary work location, pay grade, and variable compensation plan. Individual base pay within each range depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time of hire. New hires starting base pay generally falls in the bottom half (between the minimum and midpoint) of a pay range. At Ingram Micro certain roles are eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases, annual bonus or sales incentives and long‑term incentives. These awards are allocated based on position level and individual performance. U.S.-based employees have access to healthcare benefits, paid time off, parental leave, a 401(k) plan and company match, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, basic life insurance, and wellbeing benefits, among others. This is not a complete listing of the job duties. It’s a representation of the things you will be doing, and you may not perform all these duties. Please be prepared to pass a drug test and successfully pass a pre‑employment (post offer) background check. Ingram Micro Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other protected category under applicable law. With us, you’ll make technology happen in surprising ways. It’ll be a fun journey! Learn more at http://careers.ingrammicro.com

It’s no surprise that technology powers the planet. But what might surprise you is that Ingram Micro has the ability to reach more than 90% of the global population. By joining us, you make Ingram Micro’s contribution a reality: helping businesses grow, supporting industries from healthcare to education with their technology, or even connecting the world. What’s in it for you? Well, we take great care of our people, everyone is made to feel welcome, and opportunities to grow apply to all. But the prospect of shaping the future through technology is something you’re unlikely to find anywhere else. Let’s shape tomorrow.