Release Manager

Peraton•Herndon, VA

1d•$104,000 - $166,000

About The Position

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Release Manager to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities Plan, coordinate, and govern enterprise release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments. Define release schedules, milestones, deployment windows, and cutover plans aligned with organizational priorities and technical dependencies. Oversee release pipelines and evaluate deployment readiness; validate build artifacts, test results, rollback procedures, and release packages. Coordinate cross‑functional release planning with development, QA, DevSecOps, operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure safe and reliable deployments. Maintain the authoritative release calendar, change windows, risk assessments, and release artifacts to support enterprise deployment strategies. Develop and enforce release policies, checklists, quality criteria, and governance gates to ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements. Direct incident coordination for release‑related failures, lead root‑cause analyses, and drive corrective actions across teams. Produce release reports, post‑release metrics, and executive summaries that communicate deployment outcomes and release quality. Drive tooling, automation, and workflow improvements to increase deployment reliability, reduce risk, and advance continuous‑delivery maturity. #ENOCS

Requirements

10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience
Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance.
Candidate must meet ONE of the following:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering; OR
Relevant DoD/military training (examples: Cyber 101; IT Project Manager (Advanced) Playlist); OR
Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: RCCE Level 1; CCISO; CCSP; CISA; CISM; CISSP; CISSP‑ISSEP; CISSP‑ISSMP; DAWIA PM Advanced; FITSP‑A; FITSP‑M; GFACT; GSLC).
Release management, DevOps, or release engineering experience with at least 5+ years leading enterprise release operations.
Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, build/release tooling, and release orchestration across multi‑environment landscapes.
Strong proficiency in release governance, change control processes, release risk assessment, rollback planning, and incident coordination.
Ability to validate release artifacts, interpret test results, and enforce quality gates and compliance requirements (security, RMF/ATO evidence as applicable).
Excellent stakeholder coordination, communication, and executive briefing skills; experience producing release metrics and post‑release analyses.

Nice To Haves

Prior DoD/ARNG experience integrating releases into RMF/ATO workflows and multi‑domain (NIPR/SIPR/cloud) environments.
Experience with release automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), feature flagging, blue/green or canary deployments, and release orchestration at scale.
Certifications such as DAWIA PM, CISSP, CCSP, or relevant DevOps/Release Management credentials.

Responsibilities

Plan, coordinate, and govern enterprise release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
Define release schedules, milestones, deployment windows, and cutover plans aligned with organizational priorities and technical dependencies.
Oversee release pipelines and evaluate deployment readiness; validate build artifacts, test results, rollback procedures, and release packages.
Coordinate cross‑functional release planning with development, QA, DevSecOps, operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure safe and reliable deployments.
Maintain the authoritative release calendar, change windows, risk assessments, and release artifacts to support enterprise deployment strategies.
Develop and enforce release policies, checklists, quality criteria, and governance gates to ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
Direct incident coordination for release‑related failures, lead root‑cause analyses, and drive corrective actions across teams.
Produce release reports, post‑release metrics, and executive summaries that communicate deployment outcomes and release quality.
Drive tooling, automation, and workflow improvements to increase deployment reliability, reduce risk, and advance continuous‑delivery maturity.

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