Remote Release Manager: Software Delivery Orchestrator

The Elite Job; City of Geneva (NY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Remote or hybrid options

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development

Job summary

The Elite Job is seeking a highly organized Release Manager – Software Deployment Coordination to oversee planning, coordination, scheduling, and execution of software releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments. You will coordinate with developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure secure, timely deployments.

Ideal candidates will understand SDLC, CI/CD, change management, and incident response.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field.
• Certifications in PM, DevOps, cloud or IT service management are a plus.
• Experience coordinating software releases across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain release plans and calendars.
• Coordinate releases across apps, platforms, environments and teams.
• Verify release packages, database migrations and runbooks.
• Ensure approval workflows and documentation are in place.
• Monitor progress and communicate status to stakeholders.
• Plan rollback and contingency procedures for incidents.
• Lead post‑deployment reviews and continuous improvement.

Skills

Project coordination

Communication skills

Release management

Risk assessment

Documentation

Problem solving

Stakeholder management

Process improvement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IT, Software Engineering, Information Systems

Professional certifications in PM, DevOps, cloud or IT service management

Tools

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI/CD

Azure DevOps

Git & branching strategies

Jira/Confluence/ServiceNow

AWS/Azure/GC cloud

Docker & Kubernetes

Job description

The Elite Job is seeking a highly organized Release Manager – Software Deployment Coordination to oversee planning, coordination, scheduling, and execution of software releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments. You will coordinate with developers, QA, DevOps, and business stakeholders to ensure secure, timely deployments.

Ideal candidates will understand SDLC, CI/CD, change management, and incident response.