Release Manager

What will you do?

• Create, share, and present system snapshot
  - Monitor the results of automatic CI tests
  - Open Jira tickets for the development team to handle failures
  - Monitor the progress of tickets handling
  - Prepare and share daily release status report
  - Lead release status meetings

• Work with the Product, Development, QA, Documentation, and Delivery teams
• Maintain release timelines
• Identify, document, and manage risks
• Create operational releases
  - Create and maintain release branches
  - Cherry-pick changes between branches
  - Pack new versions
  - Run a few basic tests on new releases
  - Handover new releases to the Delivery team

• Manage post-release issues
• Resolve issues that affect release content, schedule, and quality
• Coordinate release-related efforts of the Product, Dev, DevOps, QA, Documentation, and Delivery teams.
• Improve the release process
• Develop scripts to automate the release process (using Python, GitHub API, Jenkins API, and Jira API)
• Document and maintain release procedures, dependencies, checklists, and history
  

Skills and knowledge

• Being able and willing to dig into details while seeing the whole picture
• Communication and presentation skills
• Eager to learn and develop while persisting in routine work

What will you need?

Must:

• At least 3 years experience in SW development and/or project management
• Understanding SW development lifecycle
• Expertise in branch management and its implications on the development processes
• Scripting language

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Advantages:

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Industrial Engineering, or a related field
• Git, GitHub
• Jira
• Jenkins
• AWS (S3, ECR, ECS, EC2)
• Python