Release Manager

Envision Technology Solutions; Berkeley Heights (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Envision Technology Solutions in the United States seeks an experienced Release Manager to oversee enterprise deployments, coordinating planning, timing, and stakeholder communication. You will align developers, QA, SREs and product owners to ensure readiness for deployment dates.

The role emphasizes risk/change management, quality gates, and automating CI/CD pipelines while tracking metrics such as lead time and deployment frequency to optimize release processes.

Qualifications

• Minimum 12+ years in IT with at least 5 years in a release manager role for enterprise applications.
• Strong experience in release planning, scheduling, and coordinating major/minor/patch milestones.

Responsibilities

• Release planning, calendars, timelines, and milestone coordination.
• Cross-functional coordination with developers, QA, SREs, and product owners for deployment readiness.
• Risk & change management including contingency and rollback planning.
• Quality assurance gatekeeping ensuring testing, security scans, and staging checks before rollout.
• Oversee deployment and traffic control with strategies like blue-green or canary releases.
• Communicate status and release notes to stakeholders and downtime/new capabilities to business units.
• Drive DevOps optimization, automation of CI/CD, and monitor DORA metrics.

Job description

Job Role : Release Manager

Long Term Contract

Job Description:

• 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