Job Title: Release Manager

Job Category: Engineering

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Continental US

Anticipated Posting End: 1/1/2099

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a talented and experienced Release Manager to lead software release execution, deployment readiness, and delivery governance for a large-scale government program supporting national critical operations.

Working across a distributed engineering organization of 45+ engineers, the Release Manager provides end-to-end oversight of the processes that move software safely, predictably, and efficiently from development through operational environments. This role serves as the program authority for release governance, deployment coordination, software baselines, and release readiness across multiple development and platform teams.

Partnering closely with the Chief Engineer, Chief Architect, Product Manager, software teams, platform engineering, test, info assurance, and government stakeholders, you will translate development progress into disciplined, repeatable releases while ensuring technical, operational, security, and program requirements are satisfied.

The ideal candidate brings a strong DevSecOps and systems-thinking mindset, understands the full software delivery lifecycle, and can identify opportunities to improve automation, testing, pipeline performance, deployment reliability, and release transparency.

Responsibilities:

• Release Execution & Governance: Own end-to-end release execution across multiple software and platform teams, including release schedules, deployment sequencing, software baselines, versioning, readiness activities, and promotion decisions.
• CI/CD Pipeline Oversight: Provide operational oversight of the software delivery pipeline and work closely with platform engineering to improve the mechanisms used to move software from development through integration, test, and production environments.
• DevSecOps & Quality Management: Champion secure, automated, and repeatable software delivery practices across the program.
• Release Readiness & Operational Delivery: Establish and maintain clear criteria for determining when software is ready to progress between environments.
• Configuration & Version Management: Manage software baselines, release versioning, configuration control, and the release implications of branching and integration strategies.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as a primary interface for software release status across engineering leadership, program leadership, government customers, and external stakeholders.
• Release Communications: Develop and maintain mechanisms that provide transparency into release contents, deployment status, and operational impacts.
• Risk & Dependency Management: Proactively identify and mitigate release, operational, technical, and cross-team dependency risks.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive improvements to release reliability, predictability, automation, and efficiency.

Qualifications:

Required:

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI Security Clearance.
• Education & Experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, with 7+ years of professional software, systems, or agile engineering experience.
• Release & Delivery Leadership: Proven experience coordinating end-to-end software releases, deployment readiness, release schedules, software baselines, cross-team dependencies, and operational delivery.
• DevSecOps & CI/CD: Strong understanding of DevSecOps principles and CI/CD pipelines.
• Technical Execution & Operations: Experience supporting software delivery across development, integration, test, and production environments.
• Quality & Security: Experience evaluating automated test results, software quality indicators, and security scan findings.
• Communication & Coordination: Strong systems-thinking, cross-functional communication, and organizational skills.

Desired:

• Mission Experience: Experience supporting DoD and/or Intelligence Community software programs.
• Cloud & Platform Technologies: Familiarity with AWS-based architectures.
• DevOps Tooling: Experience with GitLab or similar CI/CD tooling.
• Operational Excellence: Experience developing release metrics, dashboards, automated reporting, and process improvements.
• Domain Expertise: Experience with intelligence community data systems.
• Agile Delivery: Working knowledge of Agile software development.

What You Can Expect:

• A culture of integrity.
• An environment of trust.
• A focus on continuous growth.

Pay Range:

The proposed salary range for this position is: $98,500-$206,800