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# Release Manager

- **Company:** Ekcel Technologies Inc
- **Location:** Dallas, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Build Automation, Unit Testing, Microsoft Azure, Static Program Analysis, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, Release Management, Software Engineering, Software Repository, Git, Deployment Automation, Software Version Control, Jenkins, Static Application Security Testing, Dynamic Application Security Testing
- **Published:** September 29, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/c1b948a2-3497-4584-9eb3-72c502dc54bd

## About the Role

5+ years hands-on experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.

 - 5+ years of previous release and/or project management experience.
 - Solid understanding of project management principles preferred.
 - 5+ years of team and people management experience with groups no smaller than 5 engineers.
 - Advanced knowledge of software development lifecycle.
 - Experience with Git, Azure, or Jenkins or any other CI/CD Tools.
 - Experience producing deployments, run books, and implementation plans.
 - Excellent written, verbal communication, and presentation skills are a must.

## Description

Ensure code management, release process management, and continuous integration and continuous deployment.

 - Support ongoing process improvements and enable software development and QA teams.
 - Adopt best practices and work with Engineering leadership to evangelize release management best practices and promote a creative and collaborative work environment.
 - Build the release engineering team and staff it as planned.
 - Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.
 - Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates.
 - Work with the Development and QA teams to improve the CI/CD pipeline and its integrations with code repositories, unit tests, integration and functional tests, static code analysis, SAST and DAST, build automation, container packaging, automated deployment of the applications in Dev, SIT, Staging, and Production.
 - Work independently., Ensure the code management, release process management, and continuous integration and continuous deployment.
 - Support ongoing process improvements and enable software development and QA teams.
 - Adopt best practices and work with Engineering leadership to evangelize release management best practices and promote a creative and collaborative work environment.
 - Build the release engineering team and staff it as planned.
 - Communicate release details and schedules to the Business as required.
 - Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates.
 - Work with the Development and QA teams to improve the CI/CD pipeline and its integrations with code repositories, unit tests, integration and functional tests, static code analysis, SAST and DAST, build automation, container packaging, automated deployment of the applications in Dev, SIT, Staging, and Production.
 - Independently perform job responsibilities.


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