Position: Release Manager
Company: Levi9
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

**🔹About the project**

Our customer is an international company of Dutch origins LeasePlan specialized in fleet management (leasing). Its products are composed of operational fleet management services. Since its foundation in 1963, the company became the world leader in fleet management. It has more than 85% of its employees-approximately 7400 people-working out of the Netherlands. You will work on a completely new services with high level of dependencies.

To strengthen our QA + RELEASE team, we are looking for a Release Manager to help us with expanding, optimizing and managing release operations, coordinating ongoing services/applications support and safely closing the software delivery life cycle. You will be closely working with development teams, QA team, Product Owners and other teams to make sure that new products are properly launched, and existing products are maintained with an excellent care and the possible roadblocks are removed.

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**🔹Who are we looking for?**

You are a self-starter with an optimistic, positive, pragmatic, can-do mindset. You are willing to learn the LeasePlan products in-depth. In a complex organization, you know how to get things done. You are an effective communicator and team player. You are a critical thinker and problem-solver. You have good time-management skills. Ability to see the bigger picture and identify reoccurring issues that need to be addressed. You are willing to learn new tools and technologies. Last but not least — you care about teams’ and customers’ success!


**🔹 What do you need to do the job?**

✦ Demonstrable work experience in IT delivery, project implementation and operations.

✦ Extensive understanding of SDLC and agile methodologies for delivering software.

✦ Experience coordinating deployments to production (release management).

✦ Experience working with CI/CD pipelines and release automation is a big bonus.

✦ Experience running support operations.

✦ You quickly understand the matter, situation, process or a problem by interpreting the data; you are able to translate this into a decision, solution, conclusion, or the cause of an issue.

✦ Ability to build relationships with business stakeholders, domain owners, product owners, technical teams as well as contractors and/or suppliers to coordinate troubleshooting or a proper delivery.

✦ Extensive working experience with Atlassian products, DataDog is a bonus.

✦ You have excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.


**🔹 What is waiting you?**

✦ Coordination, scaling and optimization of release operations across multiple services.

✦ Active collaboration with the product, software engineering and QA teams in the verification of readiness of a deployment, timely documentation of release information in applicable communication channels and gathering relevant approvals.

✦ Applying automation where possible.

✦ Rearchitecting the current release setup on all levels: CI/CD, Infrastructure, DTAP, integrations, test data, QA automation, monitoring, etc.

✦ Monitoring of live services as a part of the release process.

✦ Dashboarding of existing and new reporting/monitoring tools and make it visible throughout the company and customers.

✦ Organizing release activities: checklists, meetings, verifications, etc.


**🔹9 reasons to join us:**

1. Today we’re working with the technology of tomorrow.
2. We don’t wait for change. We are the change.
3. We’re experts in creating experts (Levi9 academy, Lead9 program for leaders).
4. No micromanagement. We are free birds with a clear understanding of what the high performance is!
5. Learning in Levi9 never stops (unlimited Udemy for business, meetups, English courses, Professional training, and certification).
6. We’ve gathered the best locations. All you have to do is choose (5min from Olimpiyska metro station in Kyiv and Lviv office overlooking the Stryiskyi park).
7. We have a master’s degree in work-life balance.
8. Here you can train your body and mind (massage, gym in the office, TRX, Crossfit, and more with our corporate trainers).
9. A little party never hurt nobody (winter/summer parties, Ski Trip, etc).


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