#21291 - DevSecOps Release Manager

Are you interested in working with the World’s leading AI-powered Quality Engineering Company? Ready to advance your career, team up with global thought leaders across industries and make a difference every day? Join us at Qualitest!

We are looking for a DevSecOps Release Manager to join our growing team in United States

Location: Remote - Travel to Maryland when required

Must Haves:
1.End to end release ownership across applications, ensuring timelines, dependencies, and risks are tightly managed.
2.Hands on CI/CD engineering expertise, including building, maintaining, and troubleshooting pipelines.
3.Strong DevSecOps discipline with integrated security controls and solid change/incident management.

Job Description:
Integration planning with other apps.

Release Planning & Governance
Own the maintenance of end-to-end release calendar, milestones, and scope across applications/services and environments (dev/test/stage/prod).
Facilitate release planning ceremonies: scope reviews, go/no-go, readiness checkpoints, cutover rehearsals, and PIRs (post-implementation reviews).
Coordinate with Modern Sales and Shared Services teams to align release content, dependencies, and windows.
Ensure adherence to the Management Model SOPs for change, risk, approvals, and documentation.
Change, Incident, & Ticket Management, including:
Own all release-related tickets and workflows in the designated system (e.g., Change Requests, Release Records, CAB submissions, approvals).
Ensure tickets meet SOP criteria: correct metadata, risk ratings, rollback/contingency plans, test evidence, and stakeholder sign-offs.
Serve as the first escalation point for release incidents; manage war rooms, communications, and coordinated recovery.
Perform root-cause analysis (RCA) and track corrective/preventive actions (CAPA) to closure.

Technical Execution & CI/CD Ownership
Build, operate, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines (e.g., YAML pipelines, build agents, artifact/versioning strategy, approvals, gate policies).
Execute release activities hands-on: tagging, packaging, artifact promotion, parameterization, configuration, and deployment orchestrations.
Maintain pipeline-as-code standards, templates, and reusable components for consistency and scale.
Optimize build/test stages (parallelization, caching, selective test runs) to improve lead time and reliability.

DevSecOps & Security-by-Design
Integrate security controls into the pipeline (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container/image scanning, SBOM generation).
Enforce policy gates for quality and security thresholds (coverage, critical findings, license violations) prior to promotion.
Partner with Security and Compliance to implement vulnerability triage workflows, risk exceptions, and remediation SLAs.
Ensure approved artifacts/process steps, provenance/attestations, and secure supply-chain practices (e.g., least-privileged credentials, key rotation).

Automation & Partnership with Enterprise DevOps
Collaborate with the Enterprise DevOps team to automate release and build processes end-to-end (infrastructure, pipelines, testing, deployments).
Contribute to and adopt enterprise standards (tooling, runners/agents, templates, guardrails, observability).
Drive “shift-left” automation: automated environment provisioning, config-as-code, test data seeding, and blue/green/canary strategies.
Champion infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices for environment consistency and repeatability (e.g., Terraform/Bicep/ARM/Ansible).

Quality & Testing Integration
Ensure test strategy coverage per release: unit, integration, API, performance, security, and UAT.
Enforce quality gates in pipelines (test pass rates, defect leakage thresholds, performance baselines).
Coordinate test data management and environment readiness; prevent “test flakiness” via stabilization efforts and quarantines.
Ensure IT Testing is attached for each User Story, includes following up proactively throughout the release for testing evidence as stories are sent for PR review.

Environment & Configuration Management
Manage environment (Production is primary, but will also have responsibilities on lower environments), including sequencing, freeze windows, and promotion paths (dev → test → staging → prod).
Oversee configuration and secrets management aligned with enterprise standards
Observability & Operational Readiness
Validate monitoring, logging, and alerting are in place pre-release (dashboards, SLOs/SLIs, runbooks).
Conduct release health checks, smoke tests, and progressive rollouts with automated rollback criteria.
Maintain up-to-date runbooks, playbooks, and support handoffs for on-call readiness.

Documentation & Compliance
Maintain a single source of truth for release notes, change logs, deployment instructions, and rollback plans.
Ensure audit-ready records: approvals, evidence, control adherence, and traceability from commit → build → artifact → release.
Keep SOPs current; propose improvements based on retrospectives and audit feedback.
Metrics, Reporting & Continuous Improvement
Track and report DORA/SPACE-aligned metrics: deployment frequency, lead time for changes, change failure rate, MTTR, pipeline success rate.
Run data-driven retrospectives and publish improvement backlogs (pipeline stability, test reliability, automation coverage).
Forecast release capacity and throughput; highlight bottlenecks and risks with actionable mitigation plans.

Stakeholder Communication & Leadership
In collaboration with the PO, assist in providing clear, concise status updates and release comms (roadmaps, readiness, risks, cutover plans, outcomes).
Align expectations with business stakeholders regarding scope, timing, and risk tolerance.
Coach squads on release hygiene, versioning strategies (semver), branching models (GitFlow/Trunk-based), and “build once, deploy many.”

Tooling & Experience:
Experience with: Azure DevOps; Terraform; SonarQube; CheckMARX, PBI, general cloud tooling - more specific to Azure PCP? Chat…
Familiarity with ITIL change management, CAB processes, and regulated environments (SOC2, SOX, PCI, HIPAA as applicable).

Benefits

Why QualiTest?

• Be a part of a company who strives to support for diversity and inclusion in the workplace – we are one, we are many at Qualitest. Celebrate culture, share knowledge with engineers from around the globe, and inspire each other through our differences. We have more than 40% women and around 120 different nationalities.
• Local and global opportunities – we offer you internal rotation and international mobility opportunities to grow your career.
• Clear view of your career and progression with the company – Qualitest is growing massively (since 2021 – tripled our employees base – we now have more than 8,000 engineers) and giving you the opportunity to grow with us.
• Work hard and play harder with our flexible and casual culture. Take a break from work and join an employee event, or enjoy the amenities and games provided from one of our Employees Centers.Save your earnings and prepare for your future by enrolling in our 401k plan where Qualitest will match your contributions accelerating your savings plan.
• Take care of health with enrollment into one of our competitive healthcare benefits. Qualitest will match towards your HSA if you choose to participate.
• Never stop experimenting and learning with QCraft – our Learning & Development platform: 50,000+ courses, 300+ virtual labs, mentorship and leadership programs, professional tribes, sponsored certifications, and much more.
• Stay active and get rewarded with our Corporate Wellness Program. We pay your Gym membership and giving you opportunities to Earn additional vacation times for attendance the gym!
• Earn bonuses via our Client Referral and Employee Referral Program’s. Refer and earn – tap your network for net-worth.
• We recognize our employees work via our Qudos platform - You can earn bonuses and spot awards by celebrating your and your peers’ achievements.
• Planning a vacation? Looking for car insurance? Get access to Qualitest Employee Perks for discounts on anything from travel to electronics. With so many offerings the savings are endless!
• A Competitive pay, the salary range for the role is $120,000 - $130,000.
• Intrigued to find more about us?
• Visit our website at https://www.qualitestgroup.com/
• If you like what you have read, send us your resume and let’s start talking!