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# Senior Release Manager

- **Company:** Amazon.com, Inc.
- **Location:** Jersey City, NJ, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $64,800.0 - $76,700.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Confluence, JIRA, Microsoft Azure, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Groovy, Release Management, Cloud Services, Software Deployment, Software Engineering, Data Streaming, Scripting, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Terraform, Devsecops, Docker, Jenkins, Servicenow
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/jobad/usdec528c5a7cac8cd495972d71c6118d5

## About the Role

Seeking a Senior Release Manager with 7-10 years of experience in Release Management and DevOps. The candidate should have strong hands-on experience with AWS, Jenkins, Groovy scripting, CI/CD pipeline creation, and deployment automation, along with strong stakeholder-management and communication skills., * 7-10 years of Release Management / DevOps experience.

 * Strong Release Management and CI/CD experience.
 * Hands-on Jenkins experience.
 * Strong Groovy scripting skills.
 * Experience creating and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines.
 * Strong working knowledge of AWS and cloud deployments.
 * Strong communication, coordination, and stakeholder-management skills.

Good to Have Skills:

 * Media / Entertainment / Streaming industry experience.
 * Docker / Kubernetes.
 * Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
 * Azure / GCP experience.
 * Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow.
 * DevSecOps experience.

## Description

* Manage end-to-end software release planning, coordination, and production deployments.
 * Coordinate across Engineering, QA, DevOps/SRE, Product, and Infrastructure teams.
 * Manage release schedules, dependencies, risks, blockers, and Go/No-Go activities.
 * Create, maintain, and troubleshoot Jenkins CI/CD pipelines using Groovy.
 * Support application deployments and release activities across AWS environments.
 * Drive deployment automation and continuous improvement of release processes.
 * Coordinate hotfixes, rollback activities, and post-release validation.
 * Provide release status and risk updates to technical and business stakeholders.


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