Technical Release Manager
About The Position
Technical Release Manager to lead and coordinate application migration releases as part of our AWS migration program. This role is focused primarily on the application migration track, but will cut across infrastructure, DevOps, IAM, InfoSec, and workload assessment teams to ensure smooth, secure, and compliant migration and cutovers. The Release Manager will be accountable for release execution discipline, enforcing checklists/playbooks/tollgates, and embedding lessons learned into every migration wave.
Requirements
- 8-12 years of IT experience with 4+ years in Release/Deployment Management in application migration programs.
- Strong understanding of application migration approaches (re-host, re-platform, re-deploy) and workload dependencies.
- exposer with AWS services relevant to app migration:
- Compute: EC2, Lambda, EKS/ECS
- Networking & Access: VPC, Route 53, IAM, Security Groups, KMS
- Storage/Databases: S3, RDS, DynamoDB, DMS/SCT
- Knowledge of DevOps tooling & CI/CD pipelines (Jenkins, Cloudbee, Terraform).
- Experience coordinating with InfoSec teams for compliance-driven releases (encryption, IAM, audit readiness).
- Proven ability to cut across silos (app, infra, IAM, DevOps, security) and enforce migration readiness before releases.
- Strong troubleshooting skills in application deployment and AWS environment cutovers.
Nice To Haves
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer.
- Familiarity with application performance testing and workload assessment frameworks.
- Prior experience in regulated industries (banking, insurance, healthcare).
- Knowledge of container migrations (Docker → EKS/ECS).
Responsibilities
- Drive end-to-end release execution for application migrations to AWS (re-host, re-platform, re-deploy ).
- Collaborate with application teams to define migration readiness, dependencies, and cutover plans.
- Coordinate across infrastructure, DevOps, IAM, and InfoSec teams to ensure environments, pipelines, and access controls are ready before migration.
- Lead tollgate reviews and enforce migration checklists, playbooks, and rollback strategies.
- Ensure IAM policies, roles, firewall, connectivity, and security controls are validated as part of release readiness.
- Partner with InfoSec to validate compliance and embed security controls into release criteria.
- Oversee integration of DevOps pipelines (CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps) into release processes.
- Validate workload assessment outcomes (dependencies, sizing, performance testing) are addressed before release approval.
- Act as the cutover commander - coordinating app, infra, and security teams during migration go-lives.
- Capture post-release learnings and update:
- Release checklist (e.g., IAM access, monitoring setup, compliance validation)
- Playbook (step-by-step cutover activities)
- Tollgates (approval checkpoints across app, infra, DevOps, IAM, InfoSec)
- Track and report release KPIs (downtime, rollback frequency, defect leakage, migration success rate).
Benefits
- Flexible work
- Healthcare including dental, vision, mental health, and well-being programs
- Financial well-being programs such as 401(k) and Employee Share Ownership Plan
- Paid time off and paid holidays
- Paid parental leave
- Family building benefits like adoption assistance, surrogacy, and cryopreservation
- Social well-being benefits like subsidized back-up child/elder care and tutoring
- Mentoring, coaching and learning programs
- Employee Resource Groups
- Disaster Relief
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
