Senior Release Manager - Devops

Bright Vision Technologies; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 151,536,000 - 173,578,000; Part time

Job summary

Bright Vision Technologies in Jersey City, NJ, seeks a Senior Release Manager (Devops) for a hybrid, contract role. The ideal candidate has 10+ years in release management and DevOps, with hands‑on Jenkins, Groovy scripting, and AWS experience to lead CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.

You will coordinate across Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, and Infrastructure to plan releases, manage risks, and ensure smooth production deployments.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Communication

Deployment automation

Coordination

Tools

Jenkins

Groovy

CI/CD pipelines

AWS

Job description

Senior Release Manager (Devops) - Hybrid

Bright Vision Technologies is a technology consulting and software development company delivering cloud, AI, data, and enterprise solutions across the United States.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join an established and well-respected organization offering tremendous career growth potential.

Job Title

Senior Release Manager (Devops)

Location

Jersey City, NJ (Hybrid)

Position Type

Contract

Salary Range

$55/hr W2

Experience Required

10+ years

Sponsorship

U.S. Citizens, Green Card Holders, EAD Holders, and H-1B transfer candidates are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor new H-1B visa petitions for this position.

Job Summary

We are 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

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 / GCP experience.
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
• DevSecOps experience.

Bright Vision Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Statement

Bright Vision Technologies (BV Teck) is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status as defined by applicable federal, state, or local laws. This commitment extends to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, compensation, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, termination, layoffs, and recall.

BV Teck expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment or discrimination. Any improper interference with employees' ability to perform their job duties may result in disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment.