Company Name: VARITE India Private Limited

About The Client:
An Indian multinational information technology (IT) consulting company headquartered in Noida, The company has offices in 52 countries and over 225,944 employees. The Client is a global IT services and consulting company that offers a wide range of services and products across various industries like IT Infrastructure Services, Cybersecurity Services, Cloud Services, Big Data and Analytics, Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions, Semiconductor Services and Enterprise Software Products.

About The Job:

- The Change & Release Manager is responsible for governing the end-to-end Change and Release Management processes to ensure controlled, risk-mitigated and successful implementation of changes into production environments.
- The role drives change governance, CAB management, release planning, compliance, risk assessment, stakeholder communication and continuous improvement, ensuring service stability while enabling business transformation.

Essential Job Functions:
Change Management

- Own and govern the Change Management process across the organization.
- Review, assess and approve change requests for completeness, impact, risk, implementation, rollback and testing plans.
- Ensure changes are correctly categorized (Standard, Normal, Emergency).
- Monitor the entire lifecycle of changes from submission through closure.
- Maintain the Forward Schedule of Changes (FSC) and resolve scheduling conflicts.

CAB Governance and Risk Management
- Plan, organize and chair CAB (Change Advisory Board) and Emergency CAB meetings.
- Drive risk assessment and impact analysis for proposed changes.
- Ensure all required approvals are obtained before implementation.
- Manage change-related escalations and compliance issues.
- Minimize failed changes and reduce service disruptions resulting from change activities.

Release Management
- Own end-to-end Release Management lifecycle including planning, scheduling, deployment, validation and closure.
- Define release scope, deployment models,



release strategies and resource requirements.
- Coordinate with development, testing, infrastructure, application and business teams for release execution.
- Maintain release calendars and deployment schedules.
- Ensure successful rollout of software, infrastructure and application releases into production.

Service Stability and Compliance
- Ensure changes comply with organizational policies, audit requirements and governance standards.
- Monitor change success rates, emergency changes, failed changes and change-induced incidents.
- Conduct Post Implementation Reviews (PIRs) and identify improvement opportunities.
- Drive continuous process maturity and control effectiveness.

Stakeholder Management
- Collaborate with Service Owners, Application Teams, Infrastructure Teams, Vendors and Business Stakeholders.
- Provide regular reporting on change and release performance.
- Act as the primary escalation point for change and release-related issues.
- Support executive governance and customer service review meetings.

Continuous Improvement & Automation
- Identify opportunities to automate change workflows and release processes.
- Drive standardization and adoption of best practices.
- Leverage ITSM tools and dashboards for operational visibility and governance.
- Support DevOps and Agile initiatives while maintaining governance controls.

Qualifications:
Required Skills & Experience

- 6–8 years of experience in IT Service Management, Change Management, Release Management or Service Operations.
- Hands-on experience managing enterprise-wide Change and Release processes.
- Experience conducting CAB/E-CAB meetings and governance reviews.
- Exposure to large-scale applications,



infrastructure, cloud and digital transformation environments.
- Strong understanding of ITIL Change, Release, Incident, Problem and Configuration Management processes.

Preferred Qualifications

- ITIL v3 / ITIL 4 Certification.
- ServiceNow Change and Release Management modules.
- Experience with dashboarding and operational analytics.

Other Requirements

- ITIL Foundation Certification is mandatory.
- Additional ITIL Certifications (e.g., ITIL Practitioner) are optional but valuable.

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Experience Level Bonus Referral: 0-2 years INR 5,000
2-6 years INR 7,500
6+ years INR 10,000

About VARITE: VARITE is a global staffing and IT consulting company providing technical consulting and team augmentation services to Fortune 500 Companies in USA, UK, CANADA and INDIA. VARITE is currently a primary and direct vendor to the leading corporations in the verticals of Networking, Cloud Infrastructure, Hardware and Software, Digital Marketing and Media Solutions, Clinical Diagnostics, Utilities, Gaming and Entertainment, and Financial Services.

Equal Opportunity Employer:
VARITE is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive workplace for all employees. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

📌 Change + Release Management (Noida)
🏢 VARITE
📍 Noida