Strategic Software Release & Delivery Lead

Nabors Industries; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Nabors Industries seeks a seasoned Release Manager in Houston, TX to own release calendars, governance, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, QA, DevOps, and operations to ensure reliable deployments.

You will drive risk management, post-release validation, and process improvements while maintaining compliance and customer confidence through robust automation and measurement of delivery metrics.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, Technical Program Management, Software Delivery, or a related technology function.
• Experience supporting software releases across multiple teams, applications, and deployment environments.
• Hands-on experience with Git-based version control and at least one CI/CD platform (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar)

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end release calendar, roadmap, and governance framework across multiple concurrent software releases.
• Coordinate release activities across engineering, quality assurance, DevOps, and operations teams to ensure successful deployments.
• Manage release dependencies, deployment coordination, and production readiness activities to minimize disruption and support business objectives.
• Ensure release packages meet defined quality, testing, and operational standards before promotion through environments and into production.
• Lead release retrospectives, analyze delivery metrics, and implement corrective actions that improve future release performance.

Skills

Git

CI/CD

Release Management

DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IS/Engineering/Business

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Nabors Industries seeks a seasoned Release Manager in Houston, TX to own release calendars, governance, and cross-functional coordination across engineering, QA, DevOps, and operations to ensure reliable deployments.

You will drive risk management, post-release validation, and process improvements while maintaining compliance and customer confidence through robust automation and measurement of delivery metrics.