Release Manager

TalentOla; Berkeley Heights (NJ); In loco; USD 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Descrizione del lavoro

Talentola is seeking a senior Release Manager in Berkeley Heights, NJ, for a 5-days-onsite contract role. You will define release calendars, coordinate developers, QA, SREs, and product owners, and manage risks and change controls to ensure smooth deployments.

You will oversee blue-green/canary deployment strategies, maintain release notes, and keep stakeholders informed about downtimes and new capabilities. Emphasis on automating CI/CD and tracking DORA metrics.

Competenze

• 12+ years of IT experience with 5 years in a release manager role on enterprise applications.
• Define release calendars, timelines, and milestones for major updates, minor features, and hotfixes.
• Coordinate developers, QA testers, SREs, and product owners to align deployment dates.
• Identify deployment risks and create contingency and rollback plans; manage change requests.
• Verify code passes tests, security scans, and staging checks before rollout.
• Oversee live deployment using blue-green, canary, or feature flags.
• Maintain release notes and inform non-technical business units of downtime or new capabilities.
• Emphasize DevOps evolution: automate CI/CD, track DORA metrics, and remove bottlenecks.

Mansioni

• Lead release planning and scheduling across enterprise projects.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure readiness for deployment dates.
• Develop and execute risk mitigation, rollback, and change-management plans.
• Oversee deployment strategies (blue-green, canary, feature flags) and monitor post-launch stability.
• Communicate release status and downtime implications to stakeholders.

Conoscenze

Release planning

Cross-functional coordination

Risk management

Change management

QA gatekeeping

Deployment orchestration

Stakeholder communications

CI/CD automation

DORA metrics

Descrizione del lavoro

Job Title: Release Manager

Berkeley Heights, NJ (5Days onsite)

Contract

• 12+ years' experience in IT with 5 years playing release manager role in enterprise application development projects
• Release Planning & Scheduling: Define release calendars, map out timelines, and coordinate version milestones (major updates, minor features, and hotfixes).
• Cross-Functional Coordination: Align developers, QA testers, SREs (Site Reliability Engineers), and product owners to ensure everyone is ready for deployment dates.
• Risk & Change Management: Identify deployment risks, build contingency and rollback plans, and manage formal change requests or approval paperwork.
• Quality Assurance Gatekeeping: Verify that all code has passed through necessary testing, security scans, and staging checks before green-lighting a rollout.
• Deployment & Traffic Control: Oversee the live launch (using strategies like blue-green deployments, canary releases, or feature flags) and handle live triage if issues occur.
• Stakeholder & Status Communication: Maintain clear release notes, document changes, and inform non-technical business units of scheduled downtime or new capabilities.
• Process Optimization (DevOps Evolution): As highlighted by insights on LaunchDarkly, modern release managers increasingly focus on automating CI/CD pipelines, tracking DORA metrics (lead time, MTTR, deployment frequency), and removing workflow bottlenecks