Release Management Analyst

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Release Management Analyst based in India.

This role provides the opportunity to support the safe and reliable delivery of enterprise software releases across complex production environments.
You will coordinate end-to-end release activities, ensuring smooth execution from planning and readiness checks through deployment and post-release validation.
The position requires close collaboration with Engineering, SRE, Security, Product, and Operations teams to minimize risks and improve delivery efficiency.
You will play a key role in maintaining release governance, compliance standards, and operational excellence across multiple products and environments.
The role offers exposure to large-scale SaaS platforms, automation practices, and modern release management processes.
You will contribute to improving visibility, reducing deployment risks, and enabling faster, more predictable software delivery within a global technical environment.

The Release Management Analyst will oversee the operational lifecycle of software releases, ensuring that changes are delivered safely, efficiently, and in alignment with technical and compliance requirements.

• Coordinate release planning activities, calendars, and timelines across multiple products, environments, and engineering teams.
• Manage end-to-end release processes, including build tracking, environment promotion, readiness checks, approvals, execution, and post-release follow-up.
• Facilitate Go/No-Go decision processes by preparing release status updates, reviewing test results, identifying risks, and documenting outcomes.
• Create and maintain release authorizations, documentation, and compliance-related artifacts to support audit requirements.
• Partner with operations teams to coordinate deployments across regions and environments while ensuring all pre-deployment checks are completed.
• Support troubleshooting activities related to failed deployments and coordinate resolution efforts with relevant technical teams.
• Enforce change management policies, including approval processes, emergency changes, rollback planning, and release governance standards.
• Manage late-merge and hot-patch processes while ensuring appropriate risk assessment and decision-making.
• Improve release visibility by supporting dashboards, metrics, reporting, and operational insights related to readiness, deployment progress, and risk.
• Coordinate post-release validation activities and support evidence collection to confirm successful deployments.
• Contribute to incident reviews, root-cause analysis, and post-mortem activities related to release issues and deployment regressions.
• Provide clear and timely communication on release status, risks, blockers, and impacts to technical teams and leadership stakeholders.

Requirements:

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented release management professional with experience supporting production software delivery, cross-functional collaboration, and structured change management processes.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical field.
• 3+ years of experience in Release Management, Program Management, Project Management, SRE, DevOps, or Technical Operations supporting production releases.
• Experience managing multi-environment release pipelines, including development, testing, production, and regulated environments with formal approval processes.
• Hands-on experience using Jira or similar platforms for release tracking, change management, project coordination, and cross-team collaboration.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and deployment automation tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GoCD, or equivalent technologies.
• Strong understanding of software development lifecycle (SDLC), change management practices, CAB processes, rollback strategies, and audit requirements.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including Engineering, SRE, Security, Product, and Operations under time-sensitive conditions.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify risks and drive effective decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly to different audiences.
• Ability to work reliably during the required coverage schedule aligned with global operations.
• Experience supporting large distributed systems, multi-product platforms, or enterprise SaaS environments is a plus.
• Knowledge of observability and validation tools such as Kusto, Grafana, or similar platforms is advantageous.
• Experience with incident response, post-mortem processes, and operational improvement initiatives is preferred.
• Familiarity with SQL, database deployment processes, and collaboration with DBA teams is beneficial.
• Experience improving release processes through automation, metrics, dashboards, or workflow optimization is considered an advantage.

Benefits:

• Fully remote work opportunity within India.
• Full-time contract position with potential for long-term collaboration.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale enterprise software releases and complex technical environments.
• Exposure to modern DevOps, SRE, CI/CD, and release automation practices.
• Collaboration with global engineering and operations teams.
• Opportunity to strengthen expertise in release governance, production operations, and technical program coordination.
• Flexible remote working environment designed to support productivity and professional growth.
• Experience contributing to process improvements that directly impact software delivery reliability and efficiency.