Senior Release Manager ? Release Management & DevOps

Role: Senior Release Manager - Release Management & DevOps

Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ - Hybrid 3 Days

Summary

Seeking a Senior Release Manager with 7-10 years of experience in Release Management and DevOps. The candidate should have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Jenkins, Groovy scripting, CI/CD pipeline creation, and deployment automation, along with strong stakeholder-management and communication skills.

Experience: 7-10 years

Industry: Media / Entertainment / Streaming preferred

Roles & Responsibilities

Manage end-to-end software release planning, coordination, and production deployments.

Coordinate across Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Product, and Infrastructure teams.

Manage release schedules, dependencies, risks, blockers, and Go/No-Go activities.

Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy.

Support application deployments and release activities across AWS environments.

Drive deployment automation and continuous improvement of release processes.

Coordinate hotfixes, rollback activities, and post-release validation.

Provide release status and risk updates to technical and business stakeholders.

Mandatory Skills

7-10 years of Release Management / DevOps experience.

Strong Release Management and CI/CD experience.

Hands-on Jenkins experience.

Strong Groovy scripting skills.

Experience creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.

Strong working knowledge of AWS and cloud deployments.

Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills.

Good to Have Skills

Media / Entertainment / Streaming industry experience.

Docker / Kubernetes.

Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.

Azure / Google Cloud Platform experience.

Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.

DevSecOps experience.