Release Manager

Roles & Responsibilities

Strong technical background and experience of managing environments and releases for cloud migration programs across Asia. The candidate shall have ability to coordinate and manage activities and dependencies in a highly cross functional team.

• Coordinate with multiple workstreams and teams to define the overall IT environment requirements for the program
• Writing or optimizing SQL queries (e.g., joins, subqueries, window functions)
• Troubleshooting or scripting in Linux (e.g., shell scripts, cron jobs, system commands)
• Database performance tuning or indexing strategies
• Automating tasks using bash or integrating SQL with shell scripts
• Setting up or managing database servers on Linux environments
• Work with infrastructure and cloud teams to provision the necessary infrastructure/cloud setup required for development, test, and production environments
• Work with application and infra teams to arrive at capacity planning and provisioning.
• Discuss with project managers, architects, technical engineers, and external partners to identify and manage dependencies.
• Create a detailed work plan with activities, dependencies and resources needed to successfully complete the environment setup activities for production and non-production environments including development, SIT, UAT, performance test, staging and training environments
• Coordinate with multiple teams to provision necessary environments on time based on the project needs and schedule
• Ensure the development and test environments are stable to support all development and test activities
• Work with application and test teams to provision necessary access to environments, setting up of user accounts and limits as per project and testing needs
• Understand and document the deployment activities, pre-requisites, process and lead time for deployment of various application components to test and production environments
• Ensure the team follows Manulifes standard code management processes (code merge, code baseline, version control, code retrofit etc.) using Bitbucket
• Secure necessary approvals before deployment to different environments. Ensure the pre-requisites and post deployment verification checks are complete.
• Lead and automate the CI/CD pipeline including automated smoke tests
• Define and establish the release management practices/processes. Ensure the teams follow these processes.
• Ensure the IT teams are documenting the CI changes and fixes are applied across all environments consistently
• Manage, coordinate and report on the environment readiness, stability and release management activities to create clear visibility and transparency of delivery and financial performance
• Proactively identify project risks, dependencies and issues and prepare mitigation plan to track them to closure.
• Work in collaboration with the PMO to plan the budget required for environments and track financials provide monthly financial status update

Ensure the business operations and customer experience is not impacted during and post project implementation

Test Environment Management expertise.

ITIL Certified.