Remote Release & Deployment Lead — Federal Health IT

RockITdata; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

rockITdata is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to lead enterprise software releases for federal health modernization. You will coordinate planning, testing, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and government stakeholders to deliver secure healthcare technology to Veterans nationwide.

This role emphasizes DevSecOps, CI/CD, and rigorous go/no-go reviews, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum reliability across multi-team deployments in a fast-paced government environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required in CS, IS, engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of enterprise release/deployment experience.
• Experience coordinating production releases across multiple teams.
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, or hybrid models.
• Certification: ITIL Foundation, PMP, SAFe Agilist preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage enterprise release strategies and plans.
• Coordinate releases across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, and cloud teams.
• Lead release planning meetings and go/no-go reviews.
• Maintain release calendars and timelines across teams.
• Oversee production deployments, cutover, rollback, and validation.
• Monitor progress and dependencies, manage risks.
• Collaborate with Test, Engineering, CM, and security for production readiness.
• Maintain release docs and runbooks.
• Track metrics and lessons learned to improve future deployments.
• Promote CI/CD, DevSecOps, and release management best practices.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Stakeholder management

Agile methodologies

DevSecOps culture

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline

Tools

Azure DevOps

Jira

ServiceNow

Git

Jenkins

Job description

rockITdata is seeking a Release & Deployment Manager to lead enterprise software releases for federal health modernization. You will coordinate planning, testing, infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and government stakeholders to deliver secure healthcare technology to Veterans nationwide.

This role emphasizes DevSecOps, CI/CD, and rigorous go/no-go reviews, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum reliability across multi-team deployments in a fast-paced government environment.