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Software Release Manager

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Software Release Manager

Hampshire - Farnborough

£50,000 - £60,000 per annum + benefits

An experienced Software Release Manager is required to join a busy and growing development team located in Farnborough, Hampshire. You will be responsible for taking ownership of the organisations release management lifecycle, this will involve managing and implementing the release process to all live products. As the Software Release Manager, you will play an integral part working with the development, test and external stakeholders to ensure the safe deployment of code to customers live platforms.

You will be working in a LAMP environment that delivers a market leading SaaS product and work with cutting edge cloud hosting technologies such as AWS. Although our client is not looking for someone technically hands on a successful candidate will come from a software background and have experience in the following areas;

Key Skills

  • Software release management experience - Define and evolve release policies and procedures
  • Coordinate, monitor and forward plan releases across product portfolio
  • Communicate release planning, procedures, change and risk across stakeholders
  • Resource management for release process - Jira experience beneficial
  • Technical documentation - creating and maintaining release content
  • Technical knowledge of software development process/environments
  • Understanding with continuous development and integration techniques.
  • Knowledge of ITIL practices
  • Highly organised with strong attention to detail - prioritise activities to deliver planned releases
  • Technical background/understanding - LAMP environment experience would be desirable but not essential

The Software Release Manager offers a candidate to play a pivotal role in scoping the future success of the organisation. This role would suit someone that is looking to take ownership of the release process and make it your own!

Please send your CV for immediate consideration to PhilipMeehan@SpectrumIT.co.uk or call 02380 765 289

Keywords: Release Manager, Release Management, Software Delivery, Project Manager, Strategy, Project delivery, Resource Management, Technical documentation, Agile, Scrum, Project Delivery, ITIL, Software, LAMP, PHP, Jira, AWS, SaaS, Farnborough, Hampshire.