Onsite Release Manager - Config & DevOps Lead (Secret)

Maximus; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking an experienced Release Manager for a mission-critical federal program. The role leads release planning, governance, and deployment across multiple apps and environments from Annapolis Junction, MD. On-site work and active Secret clearance are required.

The successful candidate will manage release lifecycles, coordinate DevOps activities, and collaborate with Agile, engineering, testing, and operations teams to ensure timely, secure deployments and post-deployment validation.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• U.S. citizens only; dual citizenship not eligible.
• 7+ years in release management or related technical role.
• Experience with enterprise-scale builds, releases, deployments across dev/test/stage/prod.
• Experience with version control, CM, CI/CD, and Agile/DevSecOps methodologies.
• Strong communication and cross-functional coordination; manage multiple concurrent releases.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and execute application releases, OS patches, security updates, and other changes across mission-critical systems.
• Manage release lifecycle, including version control, rollback planning, Go/No-Go reviews, deployment coverage, and post-deployment validation.
• Maintain deployment plans per configuration management and document control standards.
• Coordinate builds, DevOps configuration changes, and deployments across dev, test, staging, and production environments.
• Partner with Agile, DevSecOps, engineering, testing, operations, infrastructure, and third-party teams to align release schedules and resources.
• Facilitate TRB, CRB, CRQ, OCCB meetings; prepare agendas, materials, decisions, and action items.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, conflicts, and resource constraints affecting release scope, schedule, or quality.
• Provide timely release communications on schedules, readiness, status, outcomes, and required actions.
• Administer GitLab including upgrades, patching, incident resolution, access and account management.
• Track release activities, change requests, and deployment status in EWM and ServiceNow.
• Coordinate testing, release validation, production readiness, and post-deployment verification.
• Improve release and configuration management processes, tools, documentation, and training.

Skills

Release management

DevOps practices

Configuration management

Software build & deployment

Cross-functional coordination

Active Secret clearance

Tools

GitLab

UrbanCode Deploy

Jazz EWM

Remedy

ServiceNow

Job description

Maximus is seeking an experienced Release Manager for a mission-critical federal program. The role leads release planning, governance, and deployment across multiple apps and environments from Annapolis Junction, MD. On-site work and active Secret clearance are required.

The successful candidate will manage release lifecycles, coordinate DevOps activities, and collaborate with Agile, engineering, testing, and operations teams to ensure timely, secure deployments and post-deployment validation.