Senior Release Manager: Data Center to AWS Migration Lead

Tata Consultancy Services; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Tata Consultancy Services in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead data center migration programs from on‑prem to AWS. You will own release planning, cutover strategies, and governance, coordinating across cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to minimize business disruption.

Key requirements include 8+ years IT experience with 5+ years in Release/Deployment management, data center migrations, and strong stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• 8+ years IT experience with 5+ years in Release/Deployment management.
• Experience managing large-scale Data Center Migration projects.
• Hands-on experience with On-Premises to AWS Cloud migrations.
• Experience in enterprise infrastructure transformation programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain end-to-end release management plans for data center migration projects.
• Define migration waves, release schedules, deployment calendars, and cutover strategies.
• Coordinate multiple migration releases across applications, databases, servers, and infrastructure components.
• Manage release dependencies, risks, and resource allocation across workstreams.
• Establish release governance, approvals, and deployment checkpoints.
• Lead migration cutover activities from on-premises to AWS.
• Coordinate migration events including server, application, database, network cutovers, DNS transitions.
• Develop rollback and contingency plans and ensure rehearsals.
• Coordinate with Cloud Architects, AWS teams, and Business Stakeholders; report progress.

Skills

Release Planning

Stakeholder Management

Executive Communication

Risk Management

Vendor Coordination

Leadership

Team Collaboration

Problem Solving

Education

AWS Certifications

ITIL Foundation v4

PMP or PRINCE2 Certification

SAFe Agilist (Preferred)

Tools

AWS Cloud Services

AWS Migration Hub

AWS MGN

AWS DMS

EC2

VPC

IAM

Route 53

CloudWatch

ServiceNow

Remedy

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Job description

Tata Consultancy Services in Irvine, CA is seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead data center migration programs from on‑prem to AWS. You will own release planning, cutover strategies, and governance, coordinating across cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to minimize business disruption.

Key requirements include 8+ years IT experience with 5+ years in Release/Deployment management, data center migrations, and strong stakeholder communication.