Release Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Release Manager Tools & Infrastructure Location: Ahmedabad & Hyderabad/Remote Experience Level: 610 years Department: Engineering / DevOps Reporting To: Head of DevOps / Engineering Director About the Role: We are seeking a hands-on Release Manager with strong DevOps and Infrastructure knowledge to oversee software release pipelines, tooling, and automation processes across distributed systems. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing releases, ensuring environment readiness, coordinating with engineering, SRE, and QA teams, and driving tooling upgrades and ecosystem health.This is a critical role that bridges the gap between development and operations—ensuring timely, stable, and secure delivery of applications across environments. Key Responsibilities: Release & Environment Management: Manage release schedules, timelines, and coordination with multiple delivery streams. Own the setup and consistency of lower environments and production cutover readiness. Ensure effective version control, build validation, and artifact management across CI/CD pipelines. Oversee rollback strategies, patch releases, and post-deployment validations. Toolchain Ownership: Manage and maintain DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, SonarQube, JFrog, Argo CD, and Terraform. Govern container orchestration through Kubernetes and Helm. Maintain secrets and credential hygiene through HashiCorp Vault and related tools. Infrastructure & Automation: Work closely with Cloud, DevOps, and SRE teams to ensure automated and secure deployments. Leverage GCP (VPC, Compute Engine, GKE, Load Balancer, IAM, VPN, GCS) for scalable infrastructure. Ensure adherence to infrastructure-as-code (IaC) standards using Terraform and Helm charts. Monitoring, Logging & Stability: Implement and manage observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog. Monitor release impact, track service health post-deployment, and lead incident response if required. Drive continuous improvement for faster and safer releases by implementing lessons from RCAs. Compliance, Documentation & Coordination: Use Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for release planning, documentation, and service tickets. Implement basic security standards (OWASP, WAF, GCP Cloud Armor) in release practices. Conduct cross-team coordination with QA, Dev, CloudOps, and Security for aligned delivery.