Software Release Manager

As a Release Manager, you will play a critical role in ensuring software products and enhancements are delivered reliably, efficiently, and with minimal disruption to customers and business operations. Your work directly impacts product quality, deployment success, and the organization's ability to deliver innovation at scale. By coordinating complex releases, mitigating risk, and driving continuous improvement, you help accelerate value delivery while maintaining operational excellence and compliance.

The Release Manager is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, governance, and execution of Canrig's software releases across multiple concurrent initiatives. This role serves as a central point of alignment between engineering, quality assurance, operations, product management, and customer-facing teams to ensure releases are delivered on schedule, meet quality standards, and achieve business objectives.

Success in this role is measured by predictable and successful release delivery, effective risk management, strong stakeholder alignment, and continuous improvement of release processes and deployment practices. The Release Manager enables teams to deliver software more efficiently while maintaining reliability, compliance, and customer confidence.

Required

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a related field; equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will be considered.
- 5+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, Technical Program Management, Software Delivery, or a related technology function.
- Experience supporting software releases across multiple teams, applications, and deployment environments.
- Hands-on experience with Git-based version control and at least one CI/CD platform (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps, or similar)

Preferred

- Experience supporting enterprise SaaS, industrial software, operational technology (OT), or other highly available production environments.
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Familiarity with Agile, SAFe, ITIL, DevOps, or formal change management frameworks.
- Experience with deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, or scripting languages.
- Experience supporting emergency, hotfix, or out-of-cycle release processes.
- Relevant certifications such as ITIL, Scrum, SAFe, Agile, DevOps, PMP, or related credentials.

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