Senior Specialist, Deployment Release Integration

Carnival Corporation•Fort Lauderdale, FL

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Deployment & Release Integration Specialist plans, coordinates, governs, and supports software deployments and release integrations across the organization. The role manages release calendars, readiness, dependencies, risk, governance, compliance, execution visibility, and continuous improvement to deliver controlled, secure, business-aligned releases while minimizing operational risk and service disruption. It works closely with application development, infrastructure, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, service management, vendors, and business teams. This is an ongoing individual-contributor role coordinating continuous release activity and enterprise-wide deployments across interconnected technology platforms, rather than managing people directly or delivering a single project. It leads through subject-matter expertise, coordination, influence, and accountability across cross-functional teams. The role supports operational stability, deployment reliability, security, compliance, and business continuity by improving release visibility, governance, readiness, and execution. Success is reflected in reliable deployments, fewer deployment-related incidents, compliance with required controls, and effective recovery from release issues. The role is classified as in-office. Employees work from a designated Princess office Monday through Thursday and may work from home on Fridays. Travel of less than 25% non-shipboard is likely. Work is primarily in a climate-controlled environment with minimal safety or health hazard potential. Work beyond normal business hours or on weekends may occasionally be required to support business needs, projects, or operations.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field, or 10 years of relevant industry experience.
At least 5 years of experience in release management, deployment management, IT operations, project management, or a related discipline.
At least 2 years coordinating enterprise-wide release and deployment activities across multiple technology teams.
Experience managing production deployments in complex, highly integrated environments.
Experience working within ITIL, Agile, DevOps, and change-management frameworks.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation tools.
Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
Familiarity with ServiceNow Change Management and ITSM processes.
Experience with risk assessment, issue management, operational-readiness planning, and cybersecurity requirements.
Understanding of workplace policies and procedures and familiarity with team collaboration tools and techniques.
Strong time-management and organizational skills.
Ability to maintain reliable and consistent attendance, be punctual and meet deadlines, collaborate effectively with colleagues, work as part of a team, and demonstrate professionalism.

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain enterprise release calendars, schedules, and deployment roadmaps.
Coordinate deployment activities across application, infrastructure, cloud, security, vendor, and business teams.
Facilitate release readiness reviews, planning meetings, and war rooms for major production releases.
Manage dependencies, resource coordination, prerequisites, and execution timelines.
Maintain release management standards, policies, controls, and consistent adoption.
Assess deployment risks and develop mitigation and contingency plans.
Confirm change-management approvals, rollback procedures, testing results, and readiness criteria before production deployment.
Escalate deployment risks and issues with clear recommendations.
Serve as the central integration point across development, infrastructure, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, service management, vendors, and business teams.
Coordinate multiple workstreams and resolve cross-functional dependencies, conflicts, and resource constraints.
Communicate release status, milestones, risks, issues, and operational impacts to technical, business, and leadership stakeholders.
Analyze deployment outcomes, post-release issues, and lessons learned to improve release reliability and efficiency.
Identify opportunities to improve release processes and automation.
Develop and maintain deployment metrics, dashboards, and reporting.
Promote effective DevOps, CI/CD, release-management, and operational-readiness practices.
Ensure releases align with organizational security, compliance, and audit requirements.
Partner with Information Security to validate controls and remediation requirements before deployment.
Support regulatory and internal audit activities and maintain governance, risk, and compliance evidence.
Maintain reliable and consistent attendance, be punctual and meet deadlines, collaborate effectively with colleagues, work as part of a team, and demonstrate professionalism in interactions and tasks.