Key Responsibilities

Plan, coordinate, and manage end-to-end solution releases across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
Develop and maintain release plans, schedules, deployment calendars, and release documentation.
Coordinate release activities across development, QA, infrastructure, security, business, and project teams.
Ensure all release requirements, dependencies, approvals, and readiness criteria are completed before deployment.
Manage release risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests.
Coordinate production deployments and ensure smooth transition into live environments.
Manage rollback and contingency plans for critical releases.
Track release progress and provide regular status updates to stakeholders.
Ensure adherence to change management, governance, and release control processes.
Coordinate post-release validation, defect resolution, and lessons learned.
Maintain release records, deployment documentation, and audit trails.
Support continuous improvement of release and deployment processes.

Required Skills





Solid experience in Release Management, Deployment Management, or IT Service Management.
Experience managing releases for large-scale or high-complexity enterprise solutions.
Strong knowledge of SDLC, Change Management, and Release Management processes.
Experience with Agile/Scrum and DevOps environments.
Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
Experience using tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar.
Strong understanding of release planning, environment management, dependencies, and deployment governance.
Excellent risk, issue, and stakeholder management skills.
Strong communication, coordination, and documentation skills.
Ability to coordinate multiple technical and business teams simultaneously.

Preferred Skills

ITIL certification, particularly ITIL Release/Change Management.
Experience with ServiceNow Change and Release Management.
Knowledge of AWS, Azure, or other cl

📌 Release Engineer (India)
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