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At Avaya, you'll find a community that values your contributions and supports your growth every step of the way.\nLearn more at https://www.avaya.com \nJob Information\nJob Code: 00194006\nJob Family: Research and Development\nJob Function: Software Engineering\nAbout The Role\nAs a DevOps Release Manager, you will own end-to-end software release planning, coordination, and delivery across cloud and customer environments. In this role, you protect when and how work is released-not what ships-working primarily through Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, and the Operations Portal. You will partner daily with the US/North America-based Release Manager to ensure seamless, round-the-clock release management. \nWhat You'll Do\n\nRelease Planning & Ownership: Own the multi-stream release calendar, preventing schedule collisions and managing Mid/End-Cycle and Service Pack releases (scope freeze, readiness reviews, communications).\nHotfix Execution: Lead rapid hotfix intake and delivery without disrupting the planned release train.\nTooling & Audit: Execute releases via Jenkins, Azure, and the Operations Portal, maintaining complete audit trails.\nStandards Enforcement: Define and enforce change windows, freeze periods, rollback plans, and post-release verification.\nReadiness & Gating: Confirm release readiness (including QA Ready evidence). Recommend release delays when risk is unacceptable (Product Manager holds final Go/No-Go authority).\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Maintain clean handoffs with the stateside Release Manager. Partner closely with CloudOps, Support, Product, Engineering, QA, and Security teams.\nContinuous Improvement: Improve CI/CD release automation, runbooks, and documentation-leveraging AI tools to accelerate workflows while maintaining human judgment.\n\nHow You'll Work\n\nIndividual Contributor: Direct focus on coordination and execution with no people management duties.\nFollow-the-Sun Support: Paired with a stateside Release Manager to maintain near 24-hour coverage.\nCross-Functional Orchestrator: Coordinates delivery across Product Managers, Delivery Leads, Tech Leads, CloudOps, Support, QA, and Security without directly managing the development teams.\nWhat You'll Bring\n\nExperience: Strong background in DevOps, release management, or engineering operations managing multi-stream release calendars (cycles, service packs, hotfixes).\nTime Zone Flexibility: Comfort working overlapping Pune/North America time zones and supporting releases outside standard local business hours.\nTechnical Proficiency: Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Jenkins (pipeline-as-code, promotion/gating) and controlled rollout/deployment tooling.\nCI/CD & Risk Judgment: Solid understanding of versioning, CI/CD pipelines, and rollback strategies.\nCommunication & AI: Strong written and verbal communication for asynchronous team handoffs, and comfort using AI-assisted productivity tools (e.g., Cursor).\nExperience with enterprise communications or high-availability software platforms (e.g., Avaya or similar contact-center/UC platforms) - (Nice to have)\nInfrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Bicep, ARM), Azure Monitor, ITIL/CAB experience.\nScripting capability in PowerShell, Bash, or Python.\nWhat Success Looks Like\nCollision-Free Cadence: Mid/End-Cycle and Service Pack release trains remain consistently on schedule.\nRapid Remediation: Urgent hotfixes ship rapidly without breaking planned release trains.\nSeamless Handoffs: Asynchronous handoffs between India and US teams remain low-friction and timely.\nLow Risk: Deployments are auditable, low-risk, and well-communicated to operations and support teams.\nExperience\n9+ Years of ExperienceEducation\nBachelor degree or equivalent experienceAdvance Degree preferred in Computer Science or Related FieldFooter\nApplicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.\nAvaya is an Equal Opportunity employer and a U.S. Federal Contractor. Our commitment to equality is a core value of Avaya. All qualified applicants and employees receive equal treatment without consideration for race, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, status as a protected veteran or any other protected characteristic. In general, positions at Avaya require the ability to communicate and use office technology effectively. Physical requirements may vary by assigned work location. This job brief/description is subject to change. 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