Kforce Inc ยท 6 days ago
Release Manager
San Francisco, CA
Contract
Onsite
Mid, Senior Level
$65/hr - $74/hr
5+ years expKforce Inc is seeking a mid-level Release Manager for their Ecommerce team. The candidate will be responsible for managing IT application releases, coordinating projects, and ensuring successful deployment schedules.
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Responsibilities
Managing the various schedules - release, production changes, project timelines, etc
Providing daily metrics/status for environment and project health (Dashboards or other KPI delivery methods)
Verifying gate completion for projects with PCI/Sox implications (checklist)
Coordinating projects into existing test environments/maintaining environment schedules
Building Release schedules and deployment plans to manager and implement a release
Active management of issues queue from opened to closed
Coordinating with project/application & TDS to ensure 3rd party integrations are configured & tested according to project/release schedules
Working with projects, engineering and QA to define upcoming environment requirements and specifications
Determining & coordinating data requirements and dependencies for upcoming projects
Works on moderately complex projects with some guidance from more senior staff members on complex projects
Demonstrates good judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions
Networks with senior internal and external personnel in own area of expertise
Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action
Works with team to identify and address issues and risks
Timely escalation of critical issues/risks to program manager and management
Provides recommendations to management based on qualitative analysis of the issue
Frequently interacts with functional peers and supervisors, normally involving matters within the department, or internal customers
Qualification
Required
5 years of experience in Deployment/Release Management in an enterprise environment with a background in release engineering
Deployment - day to day release management: managing all release activities across many systems/applications; This includes upfront planning for releases, working with product/engineering, working with third party vendors, and ultimately putting software into the production system; Experience executing a plan, managing change requests, managing issues that come up, managing dependencies, etc
Process - change management; looking for this person to come in, evaluate the environment, and define/improve/optimize the release process; This may include documentation, process improvement, implementing best practices, understanding what the problems are, and what is the journey to get to the next evolution, implement post-mortems, etc
Communication - leading release discussion with leadership (need to be comfortable going between tech/non-tech team members), consolidating efforts with processes
Technical background - comfortable working with the engineering team, good understanding of SDLC
Understand the dynamics of retail environment and fast moving nature of the industry
Experience working with both onshore & offshore teams
Development cycle is pretty aggressive, releases are every 2 weeks, managing 2-3 releases in parallel (different stages)
Independent worker, self-starter, self-sufficient
Benefits
Comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance
HSA
FSA
401(k)
Life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees
Paid time off
Paid sick leave
Company
Kforce Inc
Kforce is a solutions firm specializing in technology, finance and accounting, and professional staffing services.
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
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unknown2024-05-20IPO
2014-06-08Acquired
Leadership Team
Aaron Travis
Digital Experience Delivery Director | Kforce Consulting Solutions
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