Release Manager

Alpha Omega • Vienna, VA

12h • $120,000 - $126,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Release Manager / Change and Release Governance Manager will support by coordinating, tracking, and governing releases, deployments, production changes, and related configuration management activities across supported environments. The role will support cloud-based and DevSecOps-enabled operations, including CI/CD pipeline coordination, release readiness, change documentation, deployment tracking, stakeholder communication, and post-release validation.

Support operational environments, delivery platforms, pipelines, second-tier support, cloud Infrastructure as Code, application automation, database operations, monitoring, vulnerability management, and application upgrades. The program also supports DevSecOps, CI/CD, SRE, cloud migration, application automation, cloud automation, and operational support across development, test, and production environments.

Requirements

• Experience coordinating releases, deployments, or production changes in an IT operations, DevOps, cloud, or application support environment.
• Understanding of change management, release management, configuration management, and deployment governance practices.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, application deployment workflows, DevOps tools, and infrastructure automation concepts.
• Ability to coordinate across technical teams, including DevOps, cloud, database, security, application, infrastructure, and operations stakeholders.
• Strong documentation skills, including release plans, change records, deployment steps, implementation summaries, and post-release notes.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, track dependencies, and communicate release risks clearly.
• Experience supporting federal or regulated environments is preferred.
• Experience with Government IT operations environments is preferred.
• Familiarity with Agile/Kanban delivery practices, sprint coordination, or operational backlog tracking is preferred.

Nice To Haves

• 3-5 years of experience in release management, change management, DevOps coordination, configuration management, or IT operations support.
• Experience supporting production releases in cloud, hybrid, or enterprise application environments.
• Experience working with Government stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams.
• Experience supporting DevSecOps or SRE-oriented operating models.
• ITIL, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, AWS, or related certifications are preferred but not required

Responsibilities

• Manage and coordinate release and change activities across supported development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Maintain and communicate release calendars, deployment schedules, change windows, implementation plans, and release status.
• Coordinate with DevOps, cloud operations, application automation, database, security, system administration, and SRE teams to ensure release readiness.
• Support CI/CD pipeline-based release activities, including tracking pipeline readiness, deployment dependencies, approvals, and implementation status.
• Ensure release and change activities follow approved governance processes, including required reviews, approvals, documentation, and separation of duties.
• Track production changes, deployment outcomes, rollback needs, failed changes, emergency changes, and post-release issues.
• Support change advisory board or equivalent governance activities by preparing change summaries, meeting inputs, action items, and decision records.
• Coordinate release impact assessments across application, cloud infrastructure, database, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and operational support teams.
• Support release planning for application upgrades, COTS package updates, vulnerability remediation deployments, database changes, infrastructure changes, and automation updates.
• Document release procedures, deployment dependencies, implementation steps, validation results, risks, issues, and lessons learned.
• Work with DevOps and operations teams to promote repeatable, automated, and controlled deployment practices.
• Support post-release validation, issue tracking, and communication with Government stakeholders and technical teams.
• Maintain release and change records in program-approved repositories, tools, or tracking systems.
• Provide regular release/change metrics, status updates, risks, blockers, and recommendations to program leadership.

Benefits

• 15 days PTO including paid parental, military, and bereavement leave
• Eleven (11) paid Federal holidays, five of which are floating holidays (as designated by the company’s holiday schedule each year)
• Health and Dental Insurance (including 100% employer paid premiums for employee coverage under the HDHP health plan)
• Life Insurance, STD/LTD term disability coverage, with employer paid premiums
• 401 (k) plan with a match that is 100% vested after you complete two years of service
• FSA/DFSA/HSA flexible benefit plans
• Annual Tuition & Professional Development Reimbursement benefit

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed