Job Title: Release Manager
Job Category: Engineering
Time Type: Full time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%
Type of Travel: Continental US
Anticipated Posting End: 1/1/2099
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a talented and experienced Release Manager to lead software release execution, deployment readiness, and delivery governance for a large-scale government program supporting national critical operations.
Working across a distributed engineering organization of 45+ engineers, the Release Manager provides end-to-end oversight of the processes that move software safely, predictably, and efficiently from development through operational environments. This role serves as the program authority for release governance, deployment coordination, software baselines, and release readiness across multiple development and platform teams.
Partnering closely with the Chief Engineer, Chief Architect, Product Manager, software teams, platform engineering, test, info assurance, and government stakeholders, you will translate development progress into disciplined, repeatable releases while ensuring technical, operational, security, and program requirements are satisfied.
The ideal candidate brings a strong DevSecOps and systems-thinking mindset, understands the full software delivery lifecycle, and can identify opportunities to improve automation, testing, pipeline performance, deployment reliability, and release transparency.
This role focuses on release management and software delivery execution and does not perform Agile Product Manager or Release Train Engineer responsibilities.
Tech Ecosystem & Domain Scope:
Modern Data Lake Platform: Lead release execution and deployment readiness for a high-throughput, scalable data lake solution utilizing a modern technology stack hosted on AWS.
Massive Scale & Integration: Coordinate software delivery across a system supporting a large volume of diverse data inputs, a broad user base, and an even larger downstream consumer community.
External Interfaces: Manage release dependencies and operational impacts associated with APIs and integrations supporting external data users and producers.
DevSecOps Delivery Environment: Operate across a modern software delivery ecosystem incorporating CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, cloud-native deployment practices, and multiple operational environments.
Responsibilities:
Release Execution & Governance: Own end-to-end release execution across multiple software and platform teams, including release schedules, deployment sequencing, software baselines, versioning, readiness activities, and promotion decisions. Maintain program release processes and ensure required artifacts, approvals, dependencies, and government compliance activities are complete prior to deployment.
CI/CD Pipeline Oversight: Provide operational oversight of the software delivery pipeline and work closely with platform engineering to improve the mechanisms used to move software from development through integration, test, and production environments. Monitor build health, deployment status, automated testing, and pipeline performance; identify bottlenecks and drive improvements that increase delivery reliability and efficiency.
DevSecOps & Quality Management: Champion secure, automated, and repeatable software delivery practices across the program. Monitor pipeline and automated test results, coordinate remediation of security scan findings, support maturation of automated testing capabilities, and partner with engineering, test, platform, and cybersecurity teams to continuously improve deployment confidence.
Release Readiness & Operational Delivery: Establish and maintain clear criteria for determining when software is ready to progress between environments. Facilitate release readiness reviews and deployment decision forums, coordinate cross-team dependencies, and ensure operational…