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nGenue is seeking a Senior Release Manager to be the primary gatekeeper for all product releases. You'll coordinate across testing, support, services, project management, product management, and engineering to ensure that the right code ships, the right way, every time.

You'll own the release calendar and execution end-to-end: readiness checks, smoke testing, approvals and governance, packaging and installer validation, cutover/rollback planning, and crisp, professional release notes.

Roles and Responsibilities

Planning & Coordination

• Own and publish the release calendar across all product lines; align windows with customer commitments and internal capacity.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews with QA, Support, Services, PMO, Product, and Engineering.
• Maintain the release scope (approved change list) and ensure every item has the required approvals and artifacts.

Gatekeeping & Governance

• Serve as the final go/no-go authority based on quality gates, approvals, and risk assessments.
• Validate that nothing snuck in: compare manifests, tags, and diffs to ensure the release contains only approved work.
• Enforce process compliance (change management, sign-offs) and maintain audit-ready records.

On-Premise Release Engineering

• Orchestrate packaging for on-prem installers (e.g., EXE), Windows services, configuration files, and database schema migrations (scripts).
• Run and document smoke tests in staging or customer-like environments prior to deployment; ensure installer/uninstaller and upgrade paths work.
• Validate environment prerequisites (OS dependencies, ports/firewalls, services, licensing, storage), and ensure rollback and data recovery paths are tested.

Execution & Communication

• Drive the release cutover: task checklists, timeline, comms channels, and issue triage.
• Publish professional release notes (features, fixes, known issues, upgrade steps, rollback plan).
• Coordinate post-release validation with QA/Support/Services; open, track, and drive fixes for any escape defects.

Continuous Improvement

• Assist and sponsor the refinement and automation of repeatable steps (CI/CD jobs, packaging, validation, release note templates).
• Lead post-release retrospectives; track actions to reduce change failure rate and shorten MTTR.
• Maintain and improve runbooks, checklists, and templates for consistent execution.

Desired Candidate Profile

• Engineering/Masters in computer science or related fields.
• 7-12 years in Release Management for enterprise software.
• Strong grasp of version control workflows (branching, tagging, hotfixes) and CI/CD (e.g., Jenkins, DevOps, GitHub Actions).
• Hands-on with installers/packaging (MSI/EXE or equivalent), Windows/Linux services, and configuration management.
• Practical experience with relational databases (e.g., SQL Server/PostgreSQL/Oracle), migration scripts, data backfills, validation.
• Solid QA collaboration: smoke testing design/execution, test evidence capture, defect triage.
• Excellent written communication: clear release notes, runbooks, and stakeholder updates.
• Strong governance discipline: approvals, traceability, and audit-ready documentation.

We are looking for a skilled Release Manager with 7-10 years of experience to join our team in Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, and Chennai. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in systems and software life cycle engineering.

Roles and Responsibility

• Manage the release process from planning to deployment, ensuring timely and successful delivery.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to identify and mitigate risks, ensuring seamless integration.
• Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders, including business leaders and technical teams.
• Implement change control processes to minimize disruptions and ensure minimal downtime.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate and streamline release processes using tools like GITLAB, Jenkins, Jfrog Artifactory, and Octopus.
• Analyze and resolve issues related to release management, providing root cause analysis and recommendations.

Job Requirements

• Strong understanding of systems and software life cycle engineering (SFIA) principles and practices.
• Experience with release and deployment processes, including planning, execution, and post-deployment reviews.
• Excellent stakeholder relationship management skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency in DevOps tools such as GITLAB, Jenkins, Jfrog Artifactory, and Octopus.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities and deadlines.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex issues.
• Education: Be, B.tech, Me, M.tech.
• Notice Period: 0-30 days.

Location - Bengaluru,Chennai,Hyderabad,Pune

Position : Release Manager

Experience : 5 to 8 Years

Notice period: Immediate to 15 Days

Location : Chennai

Type of Interview : F2F Interview (Final Discussion)

Direct Responsibilities"

• Ensure Release Management Processes adherence for all the Jiras that are part of the Delivery/release.
• Optimize Release Management activities & processes
• Create & Maintain Release Management Documentation & artefacts
• Conduct Regular Release & retrospective meetings
• Aid Development team on the Process adherence.
• Conduct training sessions.
• Raise alerts on Risks in a timely manner and provide mitigation actions
• Coordinate with all Application/Project stakeholders for timely and quality documentation.
• To ensure all activities carried-out and solutions proposed, planned, and delivered are compliant with Organization policy guidelines.
• Contribute towards DevOps automation, functionally.

Mandatory:

• Strong knowledge on the release management process
• Excellent communication skills , spoken & written
• Good people skills to coordinate for various activities including scope closing, test sign offs, documentation and deployments
• Rigorous, Organized / Methodical
• Perform Basic Unix operations
• Basic understanding of technical/application architecture
• Exposure on DevOps processes and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure on DevOps toolchain Git, Jenkins, Artifactory, etc.
• Exposure on DevSecOps toolchain Sonar, Fortify & NexusIQ, etc.

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Kalidasan Ramasamy

Human Resource

Job ID: 36259

Location: Bangalore, IN

Area of interest: Technology

Job type: Regular Employee

Work style: Office Working

Opening date: 20 Aug 2025

Job Summary

• We are seeking an organized IT Infrastructure coordinator to serve as a liaison between the Sabre DevOps and development teams and the central IT teams. The role focuses on managing storage, networking, and hardware coordination, and tracking server delivery stages from initial order to production readiness

Key Responsibilities:

• Liaison and Coordination:
• Act as the primary contact between Sabre's teams and central IT for VMware and Dell bare metal servers.
• Coordinate activities related to NFS storage on SAN/NAS, and load balancers like F5 and Nginx.
• Server Delivery Tracking:
• Track the delivery stages of servers (bare-metal and VMs) from order to production readiness.
• Ensure timely updates and address any delays or issues promptly.
• Documentation and Reporting:
• Maintain documentation of server orders and delivery stages.
• Prepare regular status reports for management.
• Issue Resolution:
• Troubleshoot storage, networking, and hardware issues in collaboration with central IT.
• Escalate unresolved issues and track resolutions.
• Process Improvement:

• Evaluate and improve server delivery and infrastructure coordination processes.

• Strategy

• Awareness and understanding of the SABRE hardware strategy to migrate onto SRAC from physicals.

• Business

• Treat hardware migrations required by business sponsored projects with the necessary urgency and diligence.

• Processes

• Adhere to all the banks internal processes.

• People & Talent

• Attend all the necessary training courses required.

• Risk Management

• Make sure all obsolescence and security risks are documented and dealt with as soon as possible.

• Governance

• Make sure all release management comes under the necessary governance.

Regulatory & Business Conduct

• Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group's Values and Code of Conduct.
• Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
• Lead to achieve the outcomes set out in the Bank's Conduct Principles
• Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
• Serve as a Director of the Board
• Exercise authorities delegated by the Board of Directors and act in accordance with Articles of Associatio

Key stakeholders

• Lead of SABRE Development as well as PMs that look after key projects that are dependent on hardware and software delivery required by this role, e.g SABRE, FMRP, TWD, Phoenix etc.

Qualifications

• Languages: English

Skills and Experience

• Computing
• People skills
• Project Tracking

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Prepare Confluence overview pages for software releases.
• Write MATLAB scripts to compare data differences across tools like JIRA, MKS, and Preview.
• Provide Power BI support for reporting.
• Collaborate with stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
• Create Jira automation scripts.

Required Skill Set:

• Understanding of Release Lifecycle Management.
• Hands-on experience with JIRA, Confluence, MATLAB, MKS, Preview.
• Proficiency in dashboard design and data visualization (Excel, Power BI).
• Experience in Jira automation and Confluence integrations.

Key Responsibilities:

Release & Environment Management:

• Manage release schedules, timelines, and coordination with multiple delivery streams.
• Own the setup and consistency of lower environments and production cutover readiness.
• Ensure effective version control, build validation, and artifact management across CI/CD pipelines.
• Oversee rollback strategies, patch releases, and post-deployment validations.

Toolchain Ownership:

• Manage and maintain DevOps tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Bitbucket, SonarQube, JFrog, Argo CD, and Terraform.
• Govern container orchestration through Kubernetes and Helm.
• Maintain secrets and credential hygiene through HashiCorp Vault and related tools.

Infrastructure & Automation:

• Work closely with Cloud, DevOps, and SRE teams to ensure automated and secure deployments.
• Leverage GCP (VPC, Compute Engine, GKE, Load Balancer, IAM, VPN, GCS) for scalable infrastructure.
• Ensure adherence to infrastructure-as-code (IaC) standards using Terraform and Helm charts.

Monitoring, Logging & Stability:

• Implement and manage observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, and Datadog.
• Monitor release impact, track service health post-deployment, and lead incident response if required.
• Drive continuous improvement for faster and safer releases by implementing lessons from RCAs.

Compliance, Documentation & Coordination:

• Use Jira, Confluence, and ServiceNow for release planning, documentation, and service tickets.
• Implement basic security standards (OWASP, WAF, GCP Cloud Armor) in release practices.
• Conduct cross-team coordination with QA, Dev, CloudOps, and Security for aligned & responsibilities

At NiCE, we don't limit our challenges. We challenge our limits. Always. We're ambitious. We're game changers. And we play to win. We set the highest standards and execute beyond them. And if you're like us, we can offer you the ultimate career opportunity that will light a fire within you.

So, what's the role all about?

The Release Manager is a key member of the Release Management team at NICE. This pivotal role involves driving and coordinating all software release activities to deliver NICE's industry-leading, customer interaction management platform. The Release Manager will lead efforts to continually enhance release management processes, increase automation, and ensure high-quality releases that meet a 99.99% uptime SLA.

• Own and drive the end-to-end software release process across NICE, and its global subsidiaries.
• Coordinate project planning, scheduling, and activity management to ensure on-time and effective delivery of high-quality, enterprise SaaS releases.
• Lead cross-functional teams—including R&D Engineering, QA, Product Management, Marketing, Documentation, Training, Operations, and Support—for releases of varying size and complexity.
• Ensure readiness and success criteria are met in alignment with business requirements in collaboration with Product Operations.
• Manage R&D change control processes and support ITIL Problem and Change Management efforts, including root cause analysis and continual improvement.
• Provide oversight and technical support for testing environments, including setup, execution, and validation.
• Support early customer access programs (Beta) and drive communication plans, milestone tracking, and issue escalation.
• Assist in developing automation and scripting to streamline and enhance the software development lifecycle (SDLC), minimize manual tasks, and improve deployment reliability.
• Support releases during off-hours including nights and weekends as necessary.
• Guide software developers and business units through deployment and testing processes.
• Communicate professionally with internal and external stakeholders and represent the Release Management team with clarity and leadership.
• Deliver successful software releases while enforcing governance, change control, and release frameworks to minimize risk and maximize quality

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• 1+ years in the SDLC with experience managing multiple concurrent software releases.
• 1+ years of Project or Release Management experience.
• Familiarity with SDLC, release readiness, and enterprise-level software applications.

• Understanding of software applications, systems implementations, and IT infrastructure (applications, databases, networking, telecom).

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with keen attention to detail.

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, facilitation, and organizational abilities.
• Proven ability to prioritize, manage multiple initiatives, and deliver under pressure in deadline-driven environments.
• Solid grasp of QA testing principles and ability to critically evaluate and support testing processes.
• Knowledge of Configuration Management and CI/CD practices is desirable.
• Previous experience in software development or application testing is a plus.

What's in it for you?

• Join an ever-growing, market disrupting, global company where the teams – comprised of the best of the best – work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and creative environment As the market leader, every day at NICE is a chance to learn and grow, and there are endless internal career opportunities across multiple roles, disciplines, domains, and locations. If you are passionate, innovative, and excited to constantly raise the bar, you may just be our next NICEr

Enjoy NICE-FLEX

• At NICE, we work according to the NICE-FLEX hybrid model, which enables maximum flexibility: 2 days working from the office and 3 days of remote work, each week. Naturally, office days focus on face-to-face meetings, where teamwork and collaborative thinking generate innovation, new ideas, and a vibrant, interactive atmosphere.

Requisition ID: 8707

Reporting into: Manager, Program Management

Role Type: Individual Contributor

About NiCE

NICE Ltd. (NASDAQ: NICE) software products are used by 25,000+ global businesses, including 85 of the Fortune 100 corporations, to deliver extraordinary customer experiences, fight financial crime and ensure public safety. Every day, NiCE software manages more than 120 million customer interactions and monitors 3+ billion financial transactions.

Known as an innovation powerhouse that excels in AI, cloud and digital, NiCE is consistently recognized as the market leader in its domains, with over 8,500 employees across 30+ countries.

NiCE is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, neurotype, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other category protected by law.

Work Location: Chennai/Pune/Hyderabad

Experience: 18+yrs

Required Skills:

5+ years of experience in release management, DevOps, or program/project management in a tech environment.

Solid understanding of Agile/Scrum, SDLC, and DevOps practices.

Proficiency in tools such as:

Jira, Confluence, Git, Jenkins, GitHub Actions

Project management tools (e.g., Microsoft Project, Smartsheet)

Experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and version control systems.

Strong communication, organizational, and leadership skills.

Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.

Scrum Master (CSM), PMP, or SAFe certification

Familiarity with ITIL, ServiceNow, or other ITSM tools

Experience working in regulated industries (finance, healthcare, etc.)

Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Thanks & Regards

Suganya R

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced Odessa Release Manager to oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of software releases within our organisation. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in release management methodologies and a deep understanding of the Odessa platform. This role requires excellent communication skills, attention to detail, and the ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams. Key Responsibilities:
• Manage the end-to-end release process for software deployments within the Odessa platform.
• Collaborate with product managers, developers, QA teams, and stakeholders to define release scope and timelines.
• Develop and maintain release schedules, ensuring timely delivery of software updates and features.
• Facilitate release planning meetings and coordinate activities across teams to ensure alignment.
• Identify potential risks and issues related to releases and develop mitigation plans.
• Document release processes, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance and improve efficiency.
• Monitor and report on release progress, including key performance metrics and post-release evaluations.
• Support the continuous improvement of release management processes and tools.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices related to release management and the Odessa platform. Required Skills and Experience:
• Proven experience in release management, project management, or software development.
• Strong understanding of the Odessa platform and its functionalities.
• Familiarity with Agile and DevOps methodologies is a plus. Preferred Qualifications:
• Excellent organisational and multitasking skills with a keen attention to detail.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with team members and stakeholders.
• Problem-solving mindset with the ability to adapt to changing priorities. Education: Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field. finf the key word and key skill