Technical Release Manager – Development

November 20

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Ocient

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Enterprise • SaaS • Telecommunications

Ocient is a company that specializes in hyperscale data warehouse solutions. Their technology is designed to deliver real-time analytics and manage complex data sets efficiently. Ocient provides tailored solutions that can be deployed either in the cloud or on-premises, leveraging industry-standard hardware. They focus on offering high performance, energy-efficient solutions that are cost-effective and optimized for various industries such as AdTech, Telecom, Government, Financial Services, Operational IT, and Geospatial sectors. With a strong emphasis on security and compliance, their platform supports SQL workloads, data pipelines, and machine learning capabilities. Founded in 2016, Ocient strives to tackle large-scale data analytics challenges by providing end-to-end solutions and expert management services.

51 - 200 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $132k Venture Round on 2022-07

📋 Description

• Develop, own, and maintain the end-to-end release calendar for multiple software products and environments. • Coordinate release schedules, dependencies, and resource allocation across engineering, QA, DevOps, and product teams. • Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go meetings, and post-release retrospectives. • Oversee the build, integration, and deployment processes for releases, ensuring compliance with version control and CI/CD best practices. • Understand release pipelines and automated deployment processes in collaboration with DevOps and customer support team. • Validate release artifacts and help coordinate production deployments, ensuring minimal downtime and rollback capability. • Serve as the liaison between product management, QA, operations, and engineering to ensure release scope and priorities are clear. • Communicate release status, risks, and mitigation plans to stakeholders at all levels. • Partner with QA to ensure testing coverage, and with engineering teams to verify that code is production-ready. • Define and enforce release policies, controls, and documentation standards. • Continuously improve release management processes to increase reliability, predictability, and automation. • Implement best practices for change management, configuration management, and incident handling during releases.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related technical field (or equivalent experience). • 5+ years of experience in software engineering, DevOps, or release management within a product-oriented organization. • Deep understanding of planning releases in Jira. • Strong understanding of SDLC , Agile/Scrum methodologies, and CI/CD practices. • Experience with build and deployment tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or Azure DevOps. • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure). • Exceptional organizational and coordination skills, with strong attention to detail. • Experience in large-scale distributed systems. • Working knowledge of change control frameworks and release automation tools. • Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools (Grafana, Datadog, Splunk). • Strong analytical and communication skills to drive clarity and accountability. • Experience with agile methodologies (preferably scrum). • Strong experience managing software features/projects using Atlassian Jira. • Experience as scrum master.