Position: Release Manager
Company: Ericsson
Category: Project Manager
Experience required: 2y
English level: upper

**Duties and responsibilities**

Managing, planning, and negotiating releases and major configuration activities
Managing the development of deliverables into production
Distributing and prioritizing CRs delivery across different releases
Preparing and communicating release and configuration plans to various stakeholders
Aligning release schedules with all relevant stakeholders
Coordinating releases deployment
Measuring progress of software releases against time, quality and budget targets
Managing multiple release branches including merges of changes between branches
Conducting release readiness and milestone reviews
Automating release management activities through automation tools and scripts, which coversbuilding, integrating and deploying of software releases
Planning release windows and cycles across different solution components
Ensuring that releases are properly tested before placed into production
Managing releases lifecycles across multiple production and non-production environments
Ensuring that releases operate as per expectations
Validating release notes
Managing risks and resolving challenges that impact release scope, quality, and schedules
Managing complex application development projects
In cooperation with Operations team improving stability and performance of applications
Supporting the ADM Manager in E2E delivery of new solutions: new applications and modules for existing applications
Supporting the ADM Manager in Software development lifecycle management: analysis, design, development, testing
Support the ADM Manager in E2E Test plan and overall coordination of test execution
**Skills**

1+ years of experience in software delivery
Strong experience in Release and Configuration Еngineer for Software Delivery
Telco environments understanding and experience is mandatory
Experience with waterfall (e.g. PMI) and agile (e.g. SCRUM) delivery frameworks
Customer orientation with excellent understanding of service providers business
Sense of urgency and quality as key targets in delivery
Awareness of CMMI, Six Sigma, DevOps, CI/CD Processes
,• Strong background in managing/effecting change;

**Strong communication skills**
IT Managed Services and ADM Delivery exposure at mid management level
Experience with common Config and Release Management Tools like IBM Rational Suite (RTC, Udeploy etc. ), Jenkins, Ansible, etc.
Ability to execute at scale in a dynamic environment
Ability to build effective collaboration within delivery teams
Good verbal and written communication skills

**Education**
University degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications, Computer Science or equivalent experience in a related discipline