Software Release Manager

Job Description

Job Description

Description:

Position Summary

Avum is seeking a highly organized and detail-oriented Software Release Manager to join our organization. The Software Release Manager will be responsible for coordinating all aspects of software releases, ensuring that they are delivered on time and meet quality standards. This role will involve working closely with development, QA, change managers, and other stakeholders to plan and execute releases effectively.

Key Responsibilities

• Release Planning: Collaborate with product managers, development teams, and other stakeholders to create release plans that align with business objectives and project timelines.
• Release Coordination: Manage the end-to-end release process, including scheduling, coordinating activities, and communicating with stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identify and mitigate risks that may impact release timelines or quality, and proactively address any issues that arise during the release process.
• Quality Assurance: Work closely with QA teams to ensure that releases meet quality standards and are free from critical defects.
• Documentation: Maintain release documentation, including release notes, deployment instructions, and version control information.
• Communication: Facilitate communication and collaboration between cross-functional teams involved in the release process, ensuring that all stakeholders are informed and aligned.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to streamline and improve the release process, implementing best practices and tools as needed to increase efficiency and reliability.
• Post-Release Support: Provide support and troubleshooting assistance as needed following software releases, ensuring smooth transition to production environments.
• Compliance: Ensure that releases comply with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards.
• Release Reporting: Generate reports and metrics to track release progress, performance, and quality, and provide regular updates to stakeholders.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• Proven experience in software release management or a related role.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC) and release management processes.
• Excellent organizational and multitasking skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Experience with release management tools and version control systems (e.g., Git, Jira, Jenkins, etc.).

If You Have This, It’s A Plus

• Knowledge of DevOps practices and principles.
• Certification in release management (e.g., ITIL Release Control and Validation).

Location

This fully remote role requires participation in virtual meetings using tools like Microsoft Teams. Availability is required during core Eastern Time (ET) hours, Monday through Friday. The candidate will coordinate remotely with external project teams and Avum employees and may be required to attend in-person meetings, which may require occasional travel to government sites in Washington, D.C., and the Avum office in Agoura Hills, California.

About Avum

Avum, Inc. is a certified Small Disadvantaged Business who provides advanced software, database, and business intelligence systems to the DoD/Military, Intelligence Community, and Federal, State, Local and Commercial clients since 1991. We manage technical programs and projects and provide strategic guidance to support our customer's system engineering efforts. We provide sustainment in mission-critical and secure environments. We support information assurance activities and accreditation for the systems we deploy. Our engineers conduct rapid prototyping and Agile customer-focused iterations to produce complex applications, predictive analytic data environments, and NIST SP 800-53 compliant system architecture deployed within Navy and DoD networks. We have subject matter experts in multiple domains and technical expertise across all core technology stacks. We specialize in application development, large-scale database design, data engineering, and data visualization. Through results-driven, agile collaboration, the company continually researches and deploys secure solutions that exceed customer expectations in meeting or beating customer-allocated budgets and schedules. We aspire to the highest standards of ethical behavior and professional integrity in providing our customers with service that consistently earns us the highest possible performance ratings.

Avum, Inc. does not discriminate on the basis of race, sex, color, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in provision of employment opportunities and benefits.