Release Manager: Enterprise DevOps & Salesforce Deployments

Penn State Lady Lions; State College (Centre County); On-site; USD 81,000 - 137,000; Full time

Job summary

Penn State University is seeking a Release Manager to orchestrate software releases across development, testing, and production environments for the Enterprise CRM program. This role combines DevOps practices with project management to ensure reliable, traceable deployments.

The candidate will manage release strategy, coordinate schedules with multiple teams, enforce versioning standards, and maintain disaster recovery plans while supporting both waterfall and agile methods in cloud environments.

Qualifications

• Experience with SDLC processes across multiple methodologies.
• Proven ability to own end-to-end software releases through production.
• Experience coordinating releases across dev, test, staging, and production environments.
• Salesforce release management experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure).
• Proficiency with Azure DevOps or a comparable CI/CD platform.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain release management strategy and roadmap.
• Coordinate release schedules across teams and projects.
• Define release criteria, processes, and approval workflows.
• Establish SLAs for release activities.
• Deploy and maintain enterprise DevOps services to streamline release management.
• Enhance automation across the CI/CD pipeline.
• Implement deployment tools and processes.
• Ensure environment traceability throughout the release lifecycle.
• Serve as point of contact for the purchased DevOps and backup tool.
• Maintain disaster recovery plans and test backups.
• Oversee development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Maintain environment configuration and documentation.
• Coordinate environment provisioning and capacity planning.
• Monitor environment health and performance metrics.
• Establish code versioning best practices.
• Implement deployment methodologies and standards.
• Conduct release readiness assessments and go/no-go decisions.
• Manage rollback procedures and incident response protocols.
• Coordinate release activities and communicate status, risks, and dependencies across stakeholders.

Skills

SDLC experience

Waterfall & Agile

End-to-end releases

Release coordination

Salesforce release mgmt

AWS/Azure cloud

Azure DevOps / CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

Job description

Penn State University is seeking a Release Manager to orchestrate software releases across development, testing, and production environments for the Enterprise CRM program. This role combines DevOps practices with project management to ensure reliable, traceable deployments.

The candidate will manage release strategy, coordinate schedules with multiple teams, enforce versioning standards, and maintain disaster recovery plans while supporting both waterfall and agile methods in cloud environments.