Senior Release Manager – Configuration & DevOps Lead (Secret)

Hbcu Connect, Llc; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus seeks an experienced Release Manager for a mission-critical federal program. This on-site role in Annapolis Junction, MD, requires a active Secret clearance and US citizenship.

You will lead release planning, governance, and deployment across multiple environments, coordinating with Agile, DevSecOps, and third-party teams. Key responsibilities include managing the release lifecycle, CI/CD, and configurations, administering GitLab and EWM tools, and ensuring 24x7 uptime readiness through

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance is required.
• Due to contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in release management, DevOps, configuration management, or a related technical role.
• Experience managing enterprise-level software builds, releases, and deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Experience with version control, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile or DevSecOps methodologies.
• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and cross-functional coordination skills.
• Candidates must reside within a commutable distance for on-site work and on-call requirements.
• This contract supports systems that require 24x7x365 uptime; recall requirements may apply.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and execute application releases, OS patches, security updates, hardware upgrades, across mission-critical systems.
• Manage the release lifecycle, including version control, implementation/rollback planning, Go/No-Go reviews, deployment coverage, and post-deployment validation.
• Maintain deployment, implementation, and communication plans per configuration management standards.
• Coordinate software builds, DevOps configuration changes, and deployments across dev, test, staging, and production environments.
• Partner with Agile, DevSecOps, engineering, testing, operations, infrastructure, and third-party teams to align release schedules and resources.
• Facilitate TRB, CRB, CRQ, and OCCB meetings; prepare agendas and action items.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, conflicts, and constraints affecting release scope, schedule, quality, or stability.
• Provide timely release communications on schedules, readiness, status, outcomes.
• Administer GitLab, including upgrades, patching, incident resolution, access, and account management.
• Track release activities, change requests, and deployment status in EWM and ServiceNow.
• Coordinate application testing, release validation, production readiness, and post-deployment verification.
• Improve release and configuration management processes, tools, documentation, and training.

Tools

GitLab

UrbanCode Deploy

Jazz (EWM)

Remedy

ServiceNow

Job description

Maximus seeks an experienced Release Manager for a mission-critical federal program. This on-site role in Annapolis Junction, MD, requires a active Secret clearance and US citizenship.

You will lead release planning, governance, and deployment across multiple environments, coordinating with Agile, DevSecOps, and third-party teams. Key responsibilities include managing the release lifecycle, CI/CD, and configurations, administering GitLab and EWM tools, and ensuring 24x7 uptime readiness through