IAM Release Manager
About The Position
The Release Manager plans, coordinates, and executes software release processes across multiple teams and environments. The role manages the orchestration of moving software from development through testing to production, ensuring quality, compliance, and business objectives are met. It focuses on delivery pipelines and deployment logistics, balancing technical infrastructure requirements with business impacts. The position acts as a coordination point across development, cybersecurity, QA, operations, and business teams. It keeps releases, risks, dependencies, stakeholders, and schedules visible; validates release readiness and governance requirements; coordinates deployment and rollback activities; and supports follow-up reviews and continuous process improvement. This is an intermediate-level contract position based fully onsite in Irving, Texas. The listed pay range is $55.00–$70.00 per hour.
Requirements
- At least one certification is required: ITIL 4 Foundation, ITIL 4 Practitioner: Release Management, PMP, CAPM, or CSM.
- Experience with release management, DevOps, Agile, project management, release planning, CI/CD, risk management, version control, and automated testing.
Responsibilities
- Plan and coordinate release schedules across development teams and product lines.
- Manage release pipelines, deployment automation, and environment coordination.
- Facilitate communication among development, QA, operations, cybersecurity, and business stakeholders.
- Oversee quality gates, testing phases, release readiness assessments, and required security, change-management, and approval gates.
- Review release calendars, upcoming deployments, milestones, and dependencies; identify blockers that could affect release dates.
- Prepare upcoming changes for CAB or other governance reviews where applicable.
- Gather, refine, document, and clarify business requirements across stakeholders.
- Drive resolution of blockers and ensure owners are assigned to outstanding release activities.
- Confirm deployment, rollback, contingency, and communication plans.
- Provide leadership and stakeholders with updates on release status, risks, decisions needed, and schedule impacts.
- Coordinate release activities and ensure teams execute against the agreed schedule.
- Maintain visibility into deployment progress and escalate issues promptly.
- Coordinate decisions to delay, stop, or roll back a release, and engage appropriate technical teams when deployment problems arise.
- Confirm release completion and capture outstanding follow-up items.
- Facilitate post-release reviews or retrospectives when needed.
- Maintain release documentation, lessons learned, checklists, governance, and team handoffs.
- Track recurring release issues, analyze release metrics, and identify process improvements.
- Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies.
Benefits
- Medical insurance, if eligible.
- Dental insurance, if eligible.
- Vision insurance, if eligible.
- Critical illness, accident, and hospital coverage, if eligible.
- 401(k) retirement plan with pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available, if eligible.
- Voluntary life and AD&D insurance for employees and dependents, if eligible.
- Short- and long-term disability coverage, if eligible.
- Health Spending Account (HSA), if eligible.
- Transportation benefits, if eligible.
- Employee Assistance Program, if eligible.
- Time off/leave, including PTO, vacation, or sick leave, if eligible.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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