Release Analyst
Duration: 12 Months
Organize and facilitate effective release planning meetings.
Managing release schedules, and/or key infrastructure initiatives across multiple applications.
Planning, managing, and executing release cycles, including tracking release deliverables, functional/security test sign-offs, and leading release efforts for non-prod and prod deployments.
Prepare release plans for various applications, track and maintain them.
Review release plans, change requests in release pipelines
Coordinate release builds to the appropriate environments (Testing, Production, etc.)
Perform data analysis using SQL for generating release metrics and scorecards
Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable release cadence
Standardization of release process across IT applications by working with various stakeholders
Cross functional dependency management mapping for various releases and maintenance of the same
Collaborate with release leads/managers to deliver a comprehensive plan and ensure delivery excellence across the application portfolio.
Flexibility to work outside of business hours as needed to support release deployments.
Providing support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB) as needed
Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related field or six years applicable experience is required.
ITIL V4 certification (Preferred)
Work Experience:
Minimum 3 years experience in IT Change and Release Management
Minimum of five (5) years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in system integration processes
Understanding of ITIL Best Practices in IT Service Management (Change/Release/Incident/Problem) Management
Working knowledge with tools like Jira, Confluence, Service Now
Cloud infrastructure knowledge/experience is a plus
SQL/VB Scripting/Data Analysis knowledge is a plus