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# Release Manager

- **Company:** WRK DIGITAL LTD
- **Location:** Skipton, UK
- **Salary:** £50,000.0 - £70,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Continuous Integration, DevOps, Release Management, Mttr, Devsecops
- **Published:** August 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5830330401

## About the Role

* Proven experience leading release, deployment, or service transition activities within complex technology environments
 * Strong understanding of modern software delivery practices, including CI/CD, DevOps, and automated release processes
 * Experience coordinating releases and managing dependencies across multiple teams and stakeholders at scale
 * Ability to use data and engineering metrics to improve release performance, reduce risk, and enhance delivery outcomes
 * Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence engineering, operations, and business teams

## Description

* Define and evolve release and deployment strategies that enable safe, efficient, and frequent delivery across multiple platforms
 * Lead cross-team release planning and coordination, ensuring visibility of dependencies, risks, and environment readiness
 * Drive the adoption of modern release practices including automation, policy-as-code, and progressive delivery approaches such as canary and blue/green deployments
 * Use data and engineering metrics such as lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate, and MTTR to identify bottlenecks and improve delivery performance
 * Lead and develop a small team, building capability and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and shared ownership of release outcomes

Technologies:

 * CI/CD
 * DevSecOps
 * DevOps
 * Support
 * Flow


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