Release Manager

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Release Manager to oversee release coordination, code promotion, and deployment readiness across a multi-environment enterprise application ecosystem supporting federal and DoD-aligned mission needs. This role manages release planning, environment synchronization, version control, build documentation, and cross-team coordination to ensure stable and predictable delivery of CMS and enterprise platform updates.

The Release Manager plays a key role in ensuring that development, test, staging, and production environments remain aligned and that releases follow controlled, documented, and repeatable processes in accordance with ITIL standards and mission operational requirements.

This position is fully remote.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Release Manager will:

• Plan, coordinate, and manage release schedules across development, test, staging, and production environments.

• Ensure code promotion follows controlled workflows, validation steps, and documented approvals.

• Maintain version control practices, environment tagging, and build traceability across all releases.

• Oversee build documentation, deployment notes, feature listings, and risk registers for each release cycle.

• Coordinate with development, DevSecOps, cybersecurity, and testing teams to validate readiness for deployment.

• Facilitate release readiness reviews, go/no-go decisions, and cross-team communication.

• Ensure all release actions comply with ITIL practices including change, release, and configuration management.

• Maintain CMDB-related records and configuration documentation to reflect accurate environment states.

• Coordinate hotfixes, emergency releases, and rollback procedures when necessary.

• Track defects, deployment issues, and post-release performance, ensuring lessons learned are captured.

• Support automation improvements for deployment pipelines and environment configuration.

• Maintain release calendars, reporting dashboards, and documentation for government stakeholders.

Qualifications

Clearance Requirement

• Must hold an active Secret clearance, supported by a Tier 3 background investigation.

Education (Required)

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, IT Management, or a related field.

Experience (Required)

• Minimum 7 years of experience in release management, configuration management, DevSecOps support, or enterprise IT operations.

• Experience coordinating releases across multiple environments (DEV, TEST, STAGE, PROD).

• Experience with ITIL-based processes including release, change, and configuration management.

• Experience maintaining version control systems and supporting deployment workflows.

• Experience collaborating with development, QA, cybersecurity, and infrastructure teams.

Technical Knowledge (Required)

• Strong knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git) and branching strategies.

• Understanding of build processes, deployment pipelines, and environment validation.

• Familiarity with ITIL v4 processes and release management best practices.

• Knowledge of configuration documentation, CMDB record maintenance, and asset tracking.

• Technical Knowledge (Preferred)

• Experience with CI/CD tools and automated deployment pipelines.

• Familiarity with cloud-based hosting environments or container orchestration.

• Understanding of CMS deployment considerations, template updates, or integration releases.

Certifications

• Required:

• ITIL v4 Foundation

• Preferred:

• Configuration Management Database (CMDB) certification

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)

• PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI ACP)

Skills

• Strong coordination and communication skills for managing multi-team release processes.

• Excellent attention to detail, documentation accuracy, and version tracking discipline.

• Ability to manage complex release schedules and competing priorities.

• Strong analytical skills for diagnosing deployment issues and assessing release risk.

• Commitment to process rigor, reliability, and repeatable release execution.

Our Equal Employment Opportunity Policy

• EEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.
• Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.
• Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. Should DecisionPoint Corporation. or its affiliates and teaming partners wish to initiate pre-employment discussions, you will be asked to complete an employment application and related employment documents.