Senior Release Manager

MARICI Solutions GmbH; Englewood (NJ); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MARICI Solutions GmbH in Englewood Cliffs, NJ seeks a Senior Release Manager & DevOps to own end-to-end release planning and CI/CD automation. This role requires strong hands-on experience with AWS, Jenkins, Groovy scripting, and deployment automation, with emphasis on cross-functional coordination.

Final round in person; 3 days a week in the office is mandatory, with collaboration across Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and Infra teams to deliver reliable software releases.

Qualifications

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

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

DevOps

CI/CD

Jenkins

Groovy scripting

AWS

Stakeholder management

Tools

Jenkins

AWS

Docker

Kubernetes

Terraform

Azure

Google Cloud Platform

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Senior Release Manager & DevOps | Location: Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey

Final round in person

Also 3 days' work from office is mandatory

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.

Position Details

Experience: 7 10 years

Role: Senior Release Manager Release Management & DevOps

Industry: Media / Entertainment / Streaming preferred

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.
• 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 / Google Cloud Platform experience.
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
• DevSecOps experience.