Change & Release Specialist

• End-to-End Change Management: Own the change process, including assessing, authorizing, and scheduling changes, while evaluating risks and ensuring alignment with business goals.
• Change Advisory Board (CAB) Facilitation: Lead CAB meetings, ensure timely decisions, and maintain thorough documentation and post-implementation reviews.
• Release Planning and Execution: Coordinate software and infrastructure releases, defining schedules and ensuring controlled, repeatable deployments with rollback plans.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Execute and maintain CI/CD pipelines for cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP), using blue-green, canary, or rolling deployment strategies.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement automated infrastructure deployments using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi, and support containerized services (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Pre-Production Environment Management: Maintain consistent pre-production environments mirroring production, managing lifecycle, configuration, and access controls.
• Monitoring and Incident Response: Integrate third-party monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog) and define alerting mechanisms for post-deployment validation and root cause analysis.
• Security and Compliance: Incorporate security scanning tools (e.g., Snyk, Trivy, SonarQube) into pipelines, enforce secure deployment practices, and ensure compliance with standards like SOC 2, ISO 27001, and NIST.
• Stakeholder Collaboration and Communication: Act as a liaison between development, operations, QA, and stakeholders, aligning release/change activities with business priorities and conducting workshops/training.
• Documentation and Continuous Improvement: Maintain release documentation, track metrics, and contribute to retrospectives for ongoing process enhancement.

• Bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Data Science, or a Business Administration, or a related field. Relevant certifications (e.g., PMP, ITIL) preferred.
• 5 years or more experience in release/change management, DevOps, or cloud infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and cloud-native deployment practices.
• Proven hands-on experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines and deploying applications using blue-green or canary release strategies.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, and container orchestration.
• Strong understanding of pre-production/test environment architecture and best practices

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