Release Manager

wePlace (Pty) Ltd; Johannesburg; Presencial; ZAR 900.000 - 1.200.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

wePlace (Pty) Ltd is seeking a Release Manager in Johannesburg to coordinate end-to-end release processes across multiple teams. You will lead deployment activities, align with project teams on demand, and manage sandboxes and landscapes to ensure timely, quality releases.

The role requires 3–4 years of release management experience, strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, and familiarity with DevOps and Agile methodologies. Ability to drive go-live decisions and maintain deployment documentation.

Formación

• Suitable tertiary qualification.
• Project management experience.

Responsabilidades

• Coordinate end-to-end release process across multiple teams.
• Communicate demand, prepare landscape and sandbox setup proposals.
• Provide leadership and oversee deployment activities within agreed timelines.
• Plan and support project cutovers and deployments.
• Ensure releases adhere to organizational standards and are delivered on time.

Conocimientos

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Agile methodologies

Project management

Release management

Stakeholder coordination

Educación

Tertiary qualification

Herramientas

Jira

Gearset

AccelQ

Descripción del empleo

A market-leading South African ISP is looking for a Release Manager to join their team.

Duties & Responsibilities

Purpose:

• Release managers coordinate with different stakeholders for requirements, testing, and release calendar of necessary components.
• They ensure a synchronous running of day-to-day processes.
• Planning with several software development teams is a part of the release manager's duty.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaboration and coordination of end-to-end release process.
• Communicate with Project Teams to understand the demand, prepare landscape and sandbox setup proposal.
• Providing leadership, control and take responsibility for the given area and manage and coordinate the deployment process.
• Supporting and planning project cutovers and oversee deployments.
• Manage releases according to the organization standards and adhere to timelines.
• Ensure appropriate resources are available and communicate deployment status as necessary.
• Subject Matter Expert for release management tools to act as a leader to support, train other team members if they are facing any issues in the deployment of their releases and/or project streams.
• Mitigating risk by identifying risks during code conflict, merging and ensuring to deploy quality code in production and conduct release reviews, take accountability for driving a decision on Go Live of business requirement.
• Salesforce Platform Knowledge is essential to be proficient in refreshing a sandbox, must know how to package and deploy metadata components, knowledge on release branching strategies, code merging and should have worked on conflict resolution strategies.
• Understand and command awareness of Plan, Do, Check and Act with respect to the deployment of metadata components into the Salesforce org.
• Quality, Automate, Pipeline, Integrate, Deployment of quality code by running Static code analysis tools, automate most of the process by running deployment pipelines, Integrating the code, and deploying the metadata components into target org.
• Create and communicate implementation plans.
• Efficient to work on application life cycle management solutions like Jira, Gearset, AccelQ.
• Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities.
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications list, and dependencies.
• Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.

Qualifications:

• Suitable tertiary qualification.
• Project Management experience.

Experience:

• Minimum of 3-4 years’ experience as a Release Manager.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines.
• Good understanding of application infrastructure, system architecture, and operating system.
• Experience in working with DevOps and Agile methodologies.
• Working knowledge of Software Development Lifecycle.

Will be measured on:

• Release success rate (including rollbacks, on time delivery).
• Escaped Defects.
• Defect rate.
• Number of releases.
• Deployment duration.
• Release duration.
• Downtime, number of outages caused by a Release.
• Number of incidents caused by a Release.
• Mean time to repair.
• Average lead time.
• Average cycle time.