IT Release Manager

Our client, an international Company with a conveniently located central Dublin base are seeking to hire an IT Release Manager for their Dublin office.

A Robust IT network/Infrastructure is at the heart of their business and is critical to their success on a Global scale.

The IT Release Manager will be accountable for the release management lifecycle, which includes the scheduling, coordination, and management of releases for all applications across various portfolios. Releases can be inclusive of software/application deployments, operating system/software patches, security improvements, hardware upgrades, and project deliveries.

 The successful applicant will be responsible for implementing and managing release processes through test and production environments. You will work collaboratively with all participants in relevant projects and leads the effort of defining the ICT strategic direction for release management tools to ensure the process requirements of release management

Some of your Responsibilities include

• Manage all aspects of the end to end release process
• Service release and deployment policy and planning
• Schedule releases and produce a release calendar with release milestones
• Work with project teams, production support teams, and ICT Leads to determine and manage release criteria for all release items
• Oversee completion of release milestones
• Develops, audits, monitors and establishes release management processes and policies in support of ensuring completeness, accuracy and consistency.
• Work to create standard deployment checklist for required tasks and roles/responsibilities of participating areas
• Work closely with the relevant stakeholders to identify release dependencies
• Work with development teams to build tools that will integrate, and deploy software releases to various platforms
• Provides expert guidance to build upon quality assurance and release delivery standards to achieve business benefits for all stakeholder groups
• Manage risks and resolves issues that affect release scope, schedule and quality and many more responsibilities……………..

Essential experience required

•At least 10 years' experience in Technology environment with at least 5 years' experience in a Release Management role