Advisor, Configuration Management

Gainwell Technologies LLC•Any city, OH

7d•$85,000 - $121,400•Remote

About The Position

The Release Manager ensures the correct configuration items are assembled to build an application and released to appropriate environments in a repeatable manner. The role maintains the release schedule and ensures work associated with the flow of environments is completed promptly. It supports configuration status accounting and reporting, baseline verification audits, environment integration or database conversion management, operational readiness, version definition, and lessons-learned reviews. The position serves as a liaison between application and operations teams and coordinates project personnel to ensure deployments occur on schedule and meet client expectations.

Requirements

At least 5 years of Configuration Management, Build and Release Management experience.
Experience with MS Project, Visio, ServiceNow, OneNote, Jira, and Azure DevOps.
Environment integration or database conversion management experience related to release management.
Excellent communication skills.
Flexibility to manage a development project's changing requirements.

Nice To Haves

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification or equivalent Release/Change Management certifications.

Responsibilities

Ensure configuration items are assembled correctly to build applications and released to appropriate environments in a repeatable manner.
Maintain the release schedule and ensure work associated with environment flow is completed promptly.
Ensure configuration item change management and compliance with documented configuration management standards.
Review status reports prepared by project personnel and modify schedules and plans as required.
Identify and schedule project deliverables, milestones, and required tasks within project, build, release, and sprint activities.
Ensure releases are deployed on time and meet client expectations.
Serve as a liaison between applications and operations teams.
Conduct operational readiness, version definition, and lessons-learned reviews.
Direct, coordinate, and facilitate project personnel activities to ensure deployment schedules are met.
Communicate with stakeholders before and after releases.
Ensure issues are logged, assigned, monitored, scheduled, and verified.
Support configuration status accounting and reporting for projects and releases.
Support configuration management baseline verification audits.