IT Release Manager

Job Title: Technical Release Manager

Location: Denver, Colorado

Job Type: Contract

Contract Duration: 2–3 Years

Work Mode: Onsite

Experience: 8–12+ Years (Preferred)

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Technical Release Manager to lead and coordinate end-to-end software release management activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in release planning, deployment coordination, CI/CD pipelines, change management, risk assessment, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure smooth, secure, and timely software releases.

Key Responsibilities

1. Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle, including release planning, scheduling, coordination, execution, and post-release reviews.
2. Coordinate with development, QA, DevOps, infrastructure, security, and business teams to ensure release readiness and successful deployments.
3. Manage release calendars, deployment schedules, release dependencies, environment readiness, and change approvals.
4. Collaborate with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments, build management, and release orchestration.
5. Assess release risks, identify dependencies and potential blockers, and develop mitigation, rollback, and contingency plans.
6. Manage change requests, release documentation, implementation plans, deployment checklists, and release notes.
7. Monitor release progress, resolve deployment-related issues, coordinate incident escalation, and ensure minimal disruption to production environments.
8. Establish and maintain release management processes, governance standards, compliance requirements, and operational best practices.
9. Track release KPIs, deployment success rates, release cycle times, change failure rates, and post-production defects to drive continuous improvement.
10. Conduct release readiness reviews, Go/No-Go meetings, stakeholder communications, and post-implementation reviews.
11. Manage multiple concurrent releases across applications, platforms, and technical teams while ensuring alignment with business priorities.
12. Identify opportunities to improve release automation, deployment reliability, operational efficiency, and release management practices.