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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # REMOTE Release Manager - **Company:** Insight Global - **Location:** Brookfield, WI, United States - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Github, Systems Development Life Cycle, Release Management, Management of Software Versions, Cloudformation, Gitlab-ci, Git Flow, Terraform, Jenkins - **Published:** May 19, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/00000000g0iyxg ## About the Role 5+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, or Technical Program Management. - Experience managing releases in hybrid environments (on-prem + cloud). - Hands-on experience with AWS-based deployments. - Strong experience using GitHub. - Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines. - Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile, and DevOps. - Excellent communication and organizational skills. - Experience with GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitLab CI. - Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, CloudFormation). - Familiarity with ITIL or change management frameworks. - Experience in regulated or enterprise environments. ## Description We are seeking an experienced Release Manager to own and continuously improve our end-to-end release and implementation processes across all non-production and production environments. This role will support approximately 10 product and engineering teams operating in a hybrid environment, with some teams on-premises and others in AWS. This individual will be a key driver in modernizing our release discipline, enabling predictable, low-risk deployments, improving transparency, and accelerating delivery while maintaining high quality standards. As we migrate to GitHub and further mature our CI/CD practices, this role will be instrumental in shaping our future-state release model., Own the full release lifecycle across all environments (Dev, Test, QA, UAT, Production). - Plan, coordinate, and execute releases across multiple teams and platforms. - Ensure releases are predictable, repeatable, auditable, and low-risk. - Serve as the single point of accountability for release readiness and execution. - Manage releases for both legacy on-prem systems and cloud-native AWS services. - Standardize processes where possible while accommodating platform-specific needs. - Coordinate infrastructure dependencies, environment readiness, and rollback strategies. - Design, implement, and continuously improve release and implementation best practices. - Define and document standardized release processes, runbooks, and checklists. - Identify bottlenecks, risks, and inefficiencies and proactively resolve them. - Introduce automation and self-service where appropriate. - Integrate GitHub with CI/CD pipelines, approvals, and release workflows. - Define branching strategies, tagging conventions, and release versioning standards. - Support teams in adopting modern development models. - Coordinate release schedules across 10+ teams. - Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and retrospectives. - Act as a trusted partner to Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Support. - Identify, communicate, and mitigate release risks. - Ensure proper documentation, approvals, and auditability. - Own release communications. - Support incident response and post-release analysis. - Define and track release health metrics. - Use data to drive continuous improvement and executive reporting. ## Related Videos - [GitOps for the people](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/815-gitops-for-the-people) - [The Road to MLOps: How Verivox Transitioned to AWS](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1050-the-road-to-mlops-how-verivox-transitioned-to-aws) - [Innovating Developer Tools with AI: Insights from GitHub Next](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1268-innovating-developer-tools-with-ai-insights-from-github-next) - [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) - [CI/CD with Github Actions](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/856-ci-cd-with-github-actions) - [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) ## Related Articles - [Mastering Remote Work: Tips for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/558-mastering-remote-work-tips-for-developers) - [Now is the time for industrialized software development](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/601-now-is-the-time-for-industrialized-software-development) - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [Dev Digest 121 - AI goes offline](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/456-dev-digest-121-ai-goes-offline) - [Navigating the AI Shift](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/629-navigating-the-ai-shift) - [What Are The Top Skills Required For Azure Developers?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/77-what-are-the-top-skills-required-for-azure-developers)