Release managers

#HumanizingTechnology About Seidor SEIDOR helps organisations transform and remain competitive through technology and innovation, always putting people first. With more than 8,000 professionals across 45 countries, we are a diverse and inclusive global team committed to talent, equal opportunities, and sustainable growth. Will you join us in humanizing technology? We are looking for a Release manager to join our team in Brussels, working Fully remote within Europe. WHAT WILL YOU DO IN YOUR DAY-TO-DAY?
• Plan and coordinate release schedules and activities, maintain the enterprise release calendar, and manage dependencies to prevent change collisions.
• Manage and oversee the end-to-end release process, ensuring alignment with Change and Deployment Management processes.
• Collaborate with development, testing, operations, and business teams to ensure readiness and smooth coordination across the release pipeline.
• Ensure compliance with defined quality standards, release criteria, and regulatory and audit requirements for traceability.
• Identify, mitigate, and document potential release risks, including defining rollback and recovery procedures.
• Document release plans, processes, contingency strategies, and post-release reports to provide transparency and audit readiness.
• Conduct structured release readiness reviews and go/no-go meetings, validating test results, risk assessments, and rollback criteria.
• Monitor release progress and track metrics (deployment success rate, lead time, defect leakage), integrate with CI/CD pipelines and automation dashboards.
• Communicate release status, risks, and post-release outcomes to stakeholders using standardized reports and dashboards.
• Continuously improve release management processes by incorporating lessons learned, automation, and industry best practices.
• Oversee post-release hypercare to ensure stability, defect triage, and handover to operations. Requirements WHAT DO WE EXPECT FROM YOU?
• If holding a Master’s degree (EQF Level 7): min 10 years of experience.
• If holding Bachelor’s degree: min 12 years of experience
• working with software development lifecycles (such as Agile, Waterfall, DevSecOps or equivalent) and their impact on release planning and delivery.
• working with relational databases such as Oracle or equivalent.
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• 10 years of experience using CI/CD tools (such as Jenkins, Bamboo, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps or equivalent) to enable automated builds and deployments.
• 10 years of experience using version control systems (such as Git, SVN or equivalent) and continuous integration toolchains (such Bamboo, Jenkins or equivalent).
• 7 years of experience using monitoring and logging tools (such as Splunk, ELK Stack, Prometheus, Grafana or equivalent) to validate release stability post-deployment.
• 3 years of experience in Oracle WebLogic (up to at least version 14 or more recent versions).
• English: level B2 Certificates And/or Standards One of the following or an equivalent certification:
• ITIL 4 or 5 Foundation
• an Agile delivery methodology certification (such as SAFe or equivalent) Nice To Have
• 3 years of experience in containerization and orchestration technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• 3 years of experience in Java (version JDK 11 or more recent versions) and JEE (version 7 or more recent versions).
• 3 years of experience in deployment automation and release orchestration tools (such as XL Deploy, Harness, Spinnaker, or equivalent) to coordinate enterprise releases.
• 3 years of experience in release governance practices (such as change advisory boards, go/no-go criteria, rollback strategies or equivalent) for controlled deployments.
• 3 years of experience in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell or equivalent.
• 3 years of experience using issue tracking tools (such as JIRA or equivalent) and collaboration tools (such as Confluence, SharePoint or equivalent) to support planning and delivery.