Senior Release Manager - DevOps (Secret Clearance)

Maximus; Maryland; On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Maximus is seeking an experienced Release Manager to support a mission-critical federal program. The role leads release planning, governance, and deployment activities across a portfolio of applications and infrastructure, with a focus on CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Based on-site in Annapolis Junction, MD, the candidate must hold an active Secret clearance and have at least 7 years in release management or related roles.

Qualifications

• Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and cross-functional coordination skills are required.

Responsibilities

• Plan, schedule, and execute application releases, OS patches, security updates, hardware upgrades, and other changes across mission-critical systems.
• Manage the release lifecycle, including version control, implementation and rollback planning, Go/No-Go reviews, deployment coverage, and post-deployment validation.
• Maintain deployment, implementation, and communication plans in accordance with configuration management and document control standards.
• Coordinate software builds, DevOps configuration changes, and deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Partner with Agile, DevSecOps, engineering, testing, operations, infrastructure, and third-party teams to align release schedules, dependencies, and resources.
• Facilitate TRB, CRB, CRQ, and OCCB meetings; prepare agendas, materials, decisions, and action items.
• Identify and mitigate risks, issues, conflicts, and resource constraints affecting release scope, schedule, quality, or stability.
• Provide timely release communications on schedules, readiness, status, outcomes, and required actions.
• 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.

Skills

Communication

Facilitation

Organization

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

GitLab

UrbanCode Deploy

Jazz Engineering Workflow Management (EWM)

Remedy

ServiceNow

Job description

Maximus is seeking an experienced Release Manager to support a mission-critical federal program. The role leads release planning, governance, and deployment activities across a portfolio of applications and infrastructure, with a focus on CI/CD and DevOps practices.

Based on-site in Annapolis Junction, MD, the candidate must hold an active Secret clearance and have at least 7 years in release management or related roles.