Senior DevOps Engineer – Release & Environment Management

About the role

The company is seeking a senior‑level DevOps professional to lead Release and Environment Management. The role will coordinate the end‑to‑end software release lifecycle, ensure stability of non‑production environments, and drive automation across CI/CD pipelines.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, schedule and manage releases from development through production, maintaining the release calendar and checklist.
• Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone check‑ins and Go/No‑Go meetings, and communicate status to all stakeholders.
• Oversee QA, UAT and performance environments, ensuring high availability, handling refreshes, data loads and configuration updates.
• Manage access control, security and documentation for all non‑production environments.
• Support and improve CI/CD pipelines, automate deployments, and troubleshoot build or deployment failures.
• Monitor application and infrastructure health post‑release to guarantee performance and stability.

Required profile

• 6‑10 years of IT experience with at least 3 years dedicated to Release Management or UAT facilitation.
• Strong understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle and methodologies such as Agile (Scrum, Kanban) and Waterfall.
• Proven ability to manage complex, multi‑project releases involving multiple teams and dependencies.
• Excellent project‑management and organizational skills.

Required skills

• CI/CD pipeline design and maintenance.
• Deployment automation tools.
• Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban).
• Waterfall methodology.