Release Management Analyst

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Release Management Analyst based in India.

This role provides the opportunity to support the safe and reliable delivery of enterprise software releases across complex production environments. You will coordinate end-to-end release activities, ensuring smooth execution from planning and readiness checks through deployment and post-release validation. The position requires close collaboration with Engineering, SRE, Security, Product, and Operations teams to minimize risks and improve delivery efficiency. You will play a key role in maintaining release governance, compliance standards, and operational excellence across multiple products and environments. The role offers exposure to large-scale SaaS platforms, automation practices, and modern release management processes. You will contribute to improving visibility, reducing deployment risks, and enabling faster, more predictable software delivery within a global technical environment.

Accountabilities:: The Release Management Analyst will oversee the operational lifecycle of software releases, ensuring that changes are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with technical and compliance requirements.

Coordinate release planning activities, calendars, and timelines across multiple products, environments, and engineering teams.

Manage end-to-end release processes, including build tracking, environment promotion, readiness checks, approvals, execution, and post-release follow-up.

Facilitate Go/No-Go decision processes by preparing release status updates, reviewing test results, identifying risks, and documenting outcomes.

Create and maintain release authorizations, documentation, and compliance-related artifacts to support audit requirements.

Partner with operations teams to coordinate deployments across regions and environments while ensuring all pre-deployment checks are completed.

Support troubleshooting activities related to failed deployments and coordinate resolution efforts with relevant technical teams.

Enforce change management policies, including approval processes, emergency changes, rollback planning, and release governance standards.

Manage late-merge and hot-patch processes while ensuring appropriate risk assessment and decision-making.

Improve release visibility by supporting dashboards, metrics, reporting, and operational insights related to readiness, deployment progress, and risk.

Coordinate post-release validation activities and support evidence collection to confirm successful deployments.

Contribute to incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and post-mortem activities related to release issues and deployment regressions.

Provide clear and timely communication on release status, risks, blockers, and impacts to technical teams and leadership stakeholders.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented release management professional with experience supporting production software delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and structured change management processes.

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.

3+ years of experience in Release Management, Program Management, Project Management, SRE, DevOps, or Technical Operations supporting production releases.

Experience managing multi-environment release pipelines, including development, testing, production, and regulated environments with formal approval processes.

Hands-on experience using Jira or similar platforms for release tracking, change management, project coordination, and cross-team collaboration.

Familiarity with CI/CD and deployment automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GoCD, or equivalent technologies.

Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), change management practices, CAB processes, rollback strategies, and audit requirements.

Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Engineering, SRE, Security, Product, and Operations under time-sensitive conditions.

Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks and drive effective decisions.

Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly to different audiences.

Ability to work reliably during the required coverage schedule aligned with global operations.

Experience supporting large distributed systems, multi-product platforms, or enterprise SaaS environments is a plus.

Knowledge of observability and validation tools such as Kusto, Grafana, or similar platforms is advantageous.

Experience with incident response, post-mortem processes, and operational improvement initiatives is preferred.

Familiarity with SQL, database deployment processes, and collaboration with DBA teams is beneficial.

Experience improving release processes through automation, metrics, dashboards, or workflow optimization is considered an advantage.

Benefits:

Fully remote work opportunity within India.

Full-time contract position with potential for long-term collaboration.

Opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise software releases and complex technical environments.

Exposure to modern DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, and release automation practices.

Collaboration with global engineering and operations teams.

Opportunity to strengthen expertise in release governance, production operations, and technical program coordination.

Flexible remote working environment designed to support productivity and professional growth.

Experience contributing to process improvements that directly impact software delivery reliability and efficiency.

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