Skills

DevOps Quality Assurance Scrum AWS cloud platforms

Job Specifications

Job Title: Release Manager

Max rate: 700-780p/d via Umbrella

Clearance required: BPSS + SC

Nationality requirement: British National

Location: London (Remote mainly)

Job Description

Work with delivery and services teams and client QA, change and Release Management to facilitate the timely promotion of platform changes through shared testing environments and into production.

Activities

Engage with client portfolio and enterprise change and release governance teams to and tenant organisations to schedule environment access and QA/Testing.
Support delivery teams in preparing necessary documentation
Help to define and maintain the Forward Schedule of Change
Work with Tech Leads, Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters and engineers
Provide analysis of process bottlenecks and constraints
Suggest measures to improve predictability of releases
Provide reporting to client stakeholders, including tenants on rates of adoption of released platform features

Knowledge

Familiar with managing releases into large public sector enterprise cloud platforms
Understand cloud platform development and support
Relevant AWS certification
Quality Assurance and DevOps development practices

Person

This is very much a player-manager role. Short term value will come from taking the co-ordination workload off the existing team. Medium to long term value will come from improving delivery practices and negotiating adjustments to external processes to decrease cycle times.

About the Company

Experis is a global leader in IT professional resourcing, project solutions and managed services. As the need for IT skills accelerates, we help organisations transform their digital infrastructure, enterprise applications, cloud and cyber security. Through Experis Academy, we deliver the powerful combination of in-demand technical skills together with the soft skills that are critical for business success. Experis is part of ManpowerGroup, a Fortune 500 Global Business and world leader in innovative workforce solutions. Know more