Release Manager

Designation: Release Manager

Location: Hyderabad, India

Work Mode: Office

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As a Release Manager, you will play a critical role in the end-to-end release management process. The Release Manager will be responsible for planning, coordinating, and managing software releases across multiple teams and environments, ensuring high-quality delivery. Your primary focus will be on ensuring smooth, timely, and high-quality deployments while minimizing risks and disruptions. By collaborating closely with development, QA, operations, and project management teams, you will streamline release processes, drive automation, and maintain robust governance. Through efficient release management, you will contribute to enhancing product stability, accelerating delivery, and enabling business success.

Key Responsibilities:

• Release Planning & Scheduling: Develop and maintain release calendars, schedules, and milestones. Coordinate with product owners, engineering, QA, and infrastructure teams for release readiness.
• Release Execution & Delivery: Own the end-to-end execution of software releases across environments (dev, staging, production). Manage CI/CD pipelines and ensure successful deployments with rollback strategies in place. Monitor release progress, resolve conflicts, and manage risks.
• Change & Configuration Management: Ensure compliance with change management processes, approvals, and audit requirements. Oversee feature flagging, version control, and environment configuration.
• Quality & Risk Management: Work closely with QA to ensure adequate test coverage before release. Proactively identify and mitigate release risks.
• Stakeholder Communication: Act as the central point of contact for release status, risks, and issues. Communicate release scope and timelines to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Process Improvement: Continuously improve release management practices, automation, and reporting. Stay updated with industry trends, tools, and practices to optimize release efficiency.

Note:

Responsibilities will be tailored based on the candidate's experience and expertise, aligning with Engineer Manager I, II, or III levels.

• Requirements Analysis
  • Gathers requirements for medium releases with guidance
  • Validates dependencies and clarifies gaps independently
  • Anticipates potential conflicts and aligns requirements across multiple teams
• Documentation & Reporting
  • Creates clear release notes and runbooks
  • Standardizes templates for recurring releases
  • Mentors juniors and ensures audit-ready documentation
• Release Orchestration Tools
  • Runs release jobs and resolves basic issues
  • Customizes workflows and handles failures independently
  • Designs optimized workflows and integrates automation across teams
• Unit Testing & Automation Integration
  • Verifies unit tests
  • Encourages automation adoption in pipelines
  • Defines release readiness criteria based on testing coverage
• CI/CD Pipeline Management
  • Monitors builds and test executions
  • Adds approval gates and troubleshooting
  • Champions CI/CD best practices and drives efficiency improvements
• Change & Configuration Management
  • Applies standard change control procedures
  • Ensures rollback procedures and tracks versions
  • Defines release-level change management policies and audits compliance
• Cloud & Infrastructure Awareness
  • Understands environment differences
  • Validates infra readiness for releases
  • Anticipates infra risks and suggests scalable deployment strategies
• Feature Flag / Rollout Strategies
  • Uses feature flags under guidance
  • Manages staged rollouts and basic canary deployments
  • Defines rollout policies and oversees safe deployment practices
• Collaboration & Communication
  • Coordinates across dev/test teams
  • Facilitates cross-team sync meetings and escalates issues
  • Leads stakeholder communications and provides clear executive updates
• Problem-solving & Critical Thinking
  • Troubleshoots blockers
  • Anticipates and mitigates medium risks
  • Designs mitigation strategies for complex scenarios
• Legal / Compliance / Insurance Awareness
  • Ensures compliance sign-offs
  • Maintains audit documentation
  • Leads audits and enforces release compliance policies

Technical Skills

Technical Skills

Requirement Level

Jenkins / ArgoCD

Must Have

Github / GitHub Actions

Must Have

Jira

Must Have

SDLC

Must Have

Agile methodologies

Good to Have

Branching/merging strategies

Must Have

Agile/Scrum

Good to Have

SAFe release planning

Good to Have

Change Management processes

Must Have

Experience with feature flagging,

Good to Have

Experience with blue-green deployments

Good to Have

Experience on Python

Must Have

Containerization / Docker

Good To Have

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Good To Have

Relational / Vector databases

Must Have

Application Development using Python - REST API, FastAPI, Flask

Must Have

AWS Services - S3, EC2, Sagemaker, Lambda

Good To Have

Experience with LLM / GenAI

Good To Have

Production scale Model Deployment

Good To Have

Years of Exp in Transformers/ BERT Family models

Good To Have

Computer Vision / Object Detection

Good To Have

Deep Learning Framework

Good To Have

MLOps - Data Pipeline, Training Pipeline, Model Monitoring, Deployment -
KubeFlow, MLFlow, RayServe, Pachyderm, Kedro

Good To Have

Education & Experience:

• A B-Tech degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience relevant to the functional area.
• 5 years of experience in release management or software delivery roles.

At Foundation AI, we're committed to creating an inclusive and diverse workplace. We value equal opportunity and affirmative action principles, giving everyone an equal chance to succeed. We're dedicated to offering equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or veteran status. Upholding these values and adhering to applicable laws is paramount to us.

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