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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Release Manager - **Company:** ALPHA OMEGA INTEGRATION, LLC. - **Location:** Vienna, VA, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $120,000.0 - $126,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Application Release Automation, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Cloud Database, Configuration Management, Databases, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Monitoring of Systems, Issue Tracking Systems, Information Technology Operations, Scrum Methodology, Release Management, Reliability Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering Practices, Software Deployment, Software Vulnerability Management, Enterprise Software Applications, Git Flow, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cloud Migration, Splunk, Devsecops - **Published:** August 11, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9086224/release-manager ## About the Role * Experience coordinating releases, deployments, or production changes in an IT operations, DevOps, cloud, or application support environment. * Understanding of change management, release management, configuration management, and deployment governance practices. * Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, application deployment workflows, DevOps tools, and infrastructure automation concepts. * Ability to coordinate across technical teams, including DevOps, cloud, database, security, application, infrastructure, and operations stakeholders. * Strong documentation skills, including release plans, change records, deployment steps, implementation summaries, and post-release notes. * Ability to manage competing priorities, track dependencies, and communicate release risks clearly. * Experience supporting federal or regulated environments is preferred. * Experience with Government IT operations environments is preferred. * Familiarity with Agile/Kanban delivery practices, sprint coordination, or operational backlog tracking is preferred. Desired Technical Familiarity, * 3-5 years of experience in release management, change management, DevOps coordination, configuration management, or IT operations support. * Experience supporting production releases in cloud, hybrid, or enterprise application environments. * Experience working with Government stakeholders and cross-functional technical teams. * Experience supporting DevSecOps or SRE-oriented operating models. * ITIL, Agile, Scrum, DevOps, AWS, or related certifications are preferred but not required ## Description The Release Manager / Change and Release Governance Manager will support by coordinating, tracking, and governing releases, deployments, production changes, and related configuration management activities across supported environments. The role will support cloud-based and DevSecOps-enabled operations, including CI/CD pipeline coordination, release readiness, change documentation, deployment tracking, stakeholder communication, and post-release validation. Support operational environments, delivery platforms, pipelines, second-tier support, cloud Infrastructure as Code, application automation, database operations, monitoring, vulnerability management, and application upgrades. The program also supports DevSecOps, CI/CD, SRE, cloud migration, application automation, cloud automation, and operational support across development, test, and production environments., * Manage and coordinate release and change activities across supported development, test, staging, and production environments. * Maintain and communicate release calendars, deployment schedules, change windows, implementation plans, and release status. * Coordinate with DevOps, cloud operations, application automation, database, security, system administration, and SRE teams to ensure release readiness. * Support CI/CD pipeline-based release activities, including tracking pipeline readiness, deployment dependencies, approvals, and implementation status. * Ensure release and change activities follow approved governance processes, including required reviews, approvals, documentation, and separation of duties. * Track production changes, deployment outcomes, rollback needs, failed changes, emergency changes, and post-release issues. * Support change advisory board or equivalent governance activities by preparing change summaries, meeting inputs, action items, and decision records. * Coordinate release impact assessments across application, cloud infrastructure, database, monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and operational support teams. * Support release planning for application upgrades, COTS package updates, vulnerability remediation deployments, database changes, infrastructure changes, and automation updates. * Document release procedures, deployment dependencies, implementation steps, validation results, risks, issues, and lessons learned. * Work with DevOps and operations teams to promote repeatable, automated, and controlled deployment practices. * Support post-release validation, issue tracking, and communication with Government stakeholders and technical teams. * Maintain release and change records in program-approved repositories, tools, or tracking systems. * Provide regular release/change metrics, status updates, risks, blockers, and recommendations to program leadership., * CI/CD pipeline concepts and release automation * Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows, or similar DevOps platforms * Cloud operations and AWS-based environments * Infrastructure as Code and configuration management concepts * Deployment tracking and change documentation tools * Monitoring and observability concepts, including Splunk or similar tools * Vulnerability remediation release coordination * Database change coordination and deployment dependencies * SRE practices, including root cause analysis and operational improvement Deliverables / Work Products * Release calendar and deployment schedule updates * Change request summaries and approval tracking * Release readiness checklists * Implementation and rollback coordination notes * CAB or governance meeting inputs and minutes * Deployment status reports * Post-release validation summaries * Release metrics and trend reporting * Lessons learned and process improvement recommendations * Updated SOPs, runbooks, and release/change documentation ## Related Videos - [From DevOps to Scaled DevOps: How We’re Rebuilding Continuous Delivery as a Platform](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100018-from-devops-to-scaled-devops-how-we-re-rebuilding-continuous-delivery-as-a-platform) - [GitOps for the people](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/815-gitops-for-the-people) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Git for Code Reviews](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/429-git-for-code-reviews) - [DevOps Maturity Check – a way to balance autonomy and alignment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/58-devops-maturity-check-a-way-to-balance-autonomy-and-alignment) - [Months to minutes: Real world continuous deployment and its sustainability impact](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/2027-months-to-minutes-real-world-continuous-deployment-and-its-sustainability-impact) ## Related Articles - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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