Position: Release Manager
Company: Astound Commerce
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

What You’ll Be Doing:

Release Planning, Design & Build:

Coordinate planning including risk mitigation, release activities, people and technology planning which starts at early sprint planning; incorporate all dependencies (technical services, downstream systems, testing, configuration, resource & cross team, and environment);
Maintain the release schedule for all core services and ensure alignment across all parties internal and external;
Run/participate in Release CAB meetings to discuss release scope and blockages. Escalate release issues and risks with appropriate technical, managerial, client and third party representatives;
Assess build readiness for a particular release on a high level and coordinate issues resolution across teams involved;
Assess release management processes and propose improvements.

Release Test & Quality Assurance:

Configuration management, coordination of process assurance with quality;
Ensure the quality of testing is at the correct standard;
Manage build verification process for each release;
Risk assessment and mitigation of release of all related technologies, to ensure all technologies pose a low as possible risk;
Confirm all testing conducted meets the deployment requirements and poses a low risk to the release.

Release Deployment & Support:

Coordinate and control release readiness including involved resources (all sides), configuration readiness, possible blockers;
Conduct Release Readiness reviews and Business Go/no Go reviews;
Go/no go coordination;
Early life support. Coordination of Production issues resolution detected during Warranty period.

 What We’re Looking For:

Strong communication skills;
Ability to work independently;
Strong analytical, conceptual thinking skills, strong troubleshooting skills;
Result-oriented with attention to details;
English Upper Intermediate or higher;
Advanced knowledge of the full SDLC (including Agile);
Knowledge of ITIL standards; 
1-3 years of previous release management, release coordination or project management experience;
1-3 years of experience within the IT operations including DevOps.

What’s In It For you:

Knowledgebase of the world’s largest ecommerce delivery team;
Trainings and certifications;
A constant inflow of ecommerce projects with global outreach;
Well set SDLC process with use of Agile, Scrum, Waterfall depending on a project;
Coaching and reviews to support your career development;
Internal/external engineering and business training and conferences and time for self-education;
Extensive technical library with option to order books and English classes.

Your Work-Life at Astound Commerce:

A network-style culture with geographically distributed teams, easy communications and access to clients;
Possible international on-site visits;
Work-life balance approach and healthy lifestyle programs.