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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # RELEASE MANAGER - **Company:** Peraton Inc - **Location:** Herndon, VA, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Salary:** $104,000.0 - $166,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Release Automation, Microsoft Azure, Cyber Security, Information Systems, DevOps, Information Systems Security Engineering Professional, NIPRNet, Release Management, SAP Plant Maintenance, Software Engineering, Delivery Pipeline, Gitlab-ci, Information Technology, Deployment Automation, Devsecops, Jenkins - **Published:** May 15, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=c2cf9542dfddfc02 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Stakeholder management?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience * Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance. * Candidate must meet ONE of the following: + Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering; OR + Relevant DoD/military training (examples: Cyber 101; IT Project Manager (Advanced) Playlist); OR + Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: RCCE Level 1; CCISO; CCSP; CISA; CISM; CISSP; CISSP-ISSEP; CISSP-ISSMP; DAWIA PM Advanced; FITSP-A; FITSP-M; GFACT; GSLC). * Required experience and skills: + Release management, DevOps, or release engineering experience with at least 5+ years leading enterprise release operations. + Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, build/release tooling, and release orchestration across multi-environment landscapes. + Strong proficiency in release governance, change control processes, release risk assessment, rollback planning, and incident coordination. + Ability to validate release artifacts, interpret test results, and enforce quality gates and compliance requirements (security, RMF/ATO evidence as applicable). + Excellent stakeholder coordination, communication, and executive briefing skills; experience producing release metrics and post-release analyses. * Desired: + Prior DoD/ARNG experience integrating releases into RMF/ATO workflows and multi-domain (NIPR/SIPR/cloud) environments. + Experience with release automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), feature flagging, blue/green or canary deployments, and release orchestration at scale. + Certifications such as DAWIA PM, CISSP, CCSP, or relevant DevOps/Release Management credentials. ## Description We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Release Manager to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard. Responsibilities * Plan, coordinate, and govern enterprise release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments. * Define release schedules, milestones, deployment windows, and cutover plans aligned with organizational priorities and technical dependencies. * Oversee release pipelines and evaluate deployment readiness; validate build artifacts, test results, rollback procedures, and release packages. * Coordinate cross-functional release planning with development, QA, DevSecOps, operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure safe and reliable deployments. * Maintain the authoritative release calendar, change windows, risk assessments, and release artifacts to support enterprise deployment strategies. * Develop and enforce release policies, checklists, quality criteria, and governance gates to ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements. * Direct incident coordination for release-related failures, lead root-cause analyses, and drive corrective actions across teams. * Produce release reports, post-release metrics, and executive summaries that communicate deployment outcomes and release quality. * Drive tooling, automation, and workflow improvements to increase deployment reliability, reduce risk, and advance continuous-delivery maturity. ## 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) - [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) - [The Road to MLOps: How Verivox Transitioned to AWS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1050-the-road-to-mlops-how-verivox-transitioned-to-aws) - [Automated MS SQL Server database deployments with dacpacs and Azure DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/334-automated-ms-sql-server-database-deployments-with-dacpacs-and-azure-devops) - [Our GitOps approach for deploying an Identity Provider and an API Gateway in a SaaS company](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/776-our-gitops-approach-for-deploying-an-identity-provider-and-an-api-gateway-in-a-saas-company) - [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) ## Related Articles - [From developer to manager – what does it take to become an engineering manager?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/42-from-developer-to-manager-what-does-it-take-to-become-an-engineering-manager) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [Events like RSAC Get You CISOs. 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