Release Manager with DevOps

Bright Vision Technologies; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies in Jersey City, NJ, is seeking a Senior Release Manager to lead Release Management & DevOps initiatives. The role emphasizes hands-on Jenkins, Groovy scripting, and end-to-end release planning across AWS environments.

The ideal candidate has 7–10 years in Release Management / DevOps, strong communication, and the ability to coordinate across Engineering, QA, and Infrastructure teams. This hybrid role requires three office days per week.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of Release Management / DevOps experience.
• Hands-on Jenkins experience.
• Experience creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong AWS knowledge and cloud deployments.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end software release planning, coordination, and production deployments.
• Coordinate across Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Product, and Infrastructure teams.
• Manage release schedules, dependencies, risks, blockers, and Go/No-Go activities.
• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy.
• Support application deployments and release activities across AWS environments.
• Drive deployment automation and continuous improvement of release processes.
• Coordinate hotfixes, rollback activities, and post-release validation.
• Provide release status and risk updates to technical and business stakeholders.

Skills

Release Management

CI/CD

Jenkins

Groovy scripting

AWS

Cloud deployments

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Senior Release Manager – Release Management & DevOps - Onsite

Bright Vision Technologies is a forward-thinking software development company dedicated to building innovative solutions that help businesses automate and optimize their operations.
We leverage cutting-edge technologies to create scalable, secure, and user-friendly applications. As we continue to grow, we're looking for a skilled to join our dynamic team and contribute to our mission of transforming business processes through technology.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Summary:
Seeking a Senior Release Manager with 7–10 years of experience in Release Management and DevOps. The candidate should have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Jenkins, Groovy scripting, CI/CD pipeline creation, and deployment automation, along with strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.
Role: Senior Release Manager – Release Management & DevOps
Location: Jersey City, NJ
Mode of Work: Hybrid (3 days from office is mandatory)
Industry: Media / Entertainment / Streaming preferred
Experience: 7–10 years

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Manage end-to-end software release planning, coordination, and production deployments.
• Coordinate across Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Product, and Infrastructure teams.
• Manage release schedules, dependencies, risks, blockers, and Go/No-Go activities.
• Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy.
• Support application deployments and release activities across AWS environments.
• Drive deployment automation and continuous improvement of release processes.
• Coordinate hotfixes, rollback activities, and post-release validation.
• Provide release status and risk updates to technical and business stakeholders.

Mandatory Skills:

• 7–10 years of Release Management / DevOps experience.
• Strong Release Management and CI/CD experience.
• Hands-on Jenkins experience.
• Strong Groovy scripting skills.
• Experience creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
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• Strong working knowledge of AWS and cloud deployments.
• Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills.

Good to Have Skills:

• Media / Entertainment / Streaming industry experience.
• Docker / Kubernetes.
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
• Azure / GCP experience.
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
• DevSecOps experience.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.