Managing the technical requirements to complete the testing stage and deployment stage, and work closely with the application development team, testing team, and production team maintaining coordination and communication between all stakeholders. Collaborating with business owners to develop an annual release plan that maximizes the benefit of changes to business services to accommodate business process changes, feature requests, bug fixes, and upgrades to supported technologies and platforms. C... more details
Release Manager / Engineer
Job LocationsUS-DC-Washington
Requisition ID
2024-144581
Position Category
Other / Technical
Clearance
Public Trust
Sector
Citizen Security & Public Services
Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
Managing the technical requirements to complete the testing stage and deployment stage, and work closely with the application development team, testing team, and production team maintaining coordination and communication between all stakeholders.
Collaborating with business owners to develop an annual release plan that maximizes the benefit of changes to business services to accommodate business process changes, feature requests, bug fixes, and upgrades to supported technologies and platforms.
Capturing and managing requirements in the Agency's ITSM Tool (ServiceNow™) for release, sprint and backlog.
Working with all stakeholders to provide detailed technical documentation for the release planning, testing, tracking, release content, deployment, communication, and risk management.
Ensuring the allocation of Release Engineers and technical staff aligns to every release.
Identify and managing risks that can delay the release such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
Validating all security requirements are being met with the release and no new security issues are being introduced with the release.
Developing and a weekly schedule and communicating a monthly forecast of application and infrastructure releases to users for planning purposes.
Developing new and maintaining automated test scripts to ensure they are up to date, reflecting the latest releases and new test cases.
Planning for scheduled maintenance including security patching and emergency responses for database management systems and platforms in the production environment.
Developing test documentation for major releases, such as Test Plans, Test Scripts, and Test Summary Reports and Test Summary Reports for minor releases.
Performing load and performance testing, per major release and annually, for Priority Level 1 and Level 2 business services.
Creating automated reports on testing tasks (e.g. requirements, test cases, execution, defects, recommendations)
Implementing and maintaining tools to detect possible conflicts between various image sets, suites of software, and individual releases and updates, and creating a conflict report for each release.
Scheduling the release review and change board meetings to discuss the release schedules with the team to identify roadblocks, if any.
Leading the Go-Live activities and supporting the release management tools used to manage successful releases.
Monitoring new software releases and tracking current software version(s), and providing recommendations and schedule(s) for software upgrades
Developing and deploying releases to accommodate minor business process changes, minor feature requests, bug fixes, and upgrades to supported platforms.
Staying current on release, security patches and hotfixes schedules in alignment with agency environment and system changes/updates.
Developing and delivering Application Release Reports per application per release, to include data dictionaries, system-related, regression test plan/scripts, updates to existing training materials, release notes, and deployment instructions.
Providing quarterly maintenance releases to make improvements to the mobile solution based on end user feedback and frequently requested functionality or program changes.
Deploying updated versions to the production environment in accordance with the agency change and release management processes.
*Contingent on Contract Award*
Qualifications
Basic Qualification:
U.S. Citizen; eligible for U.S. Secret Security Clearance.
Ability to communicate at a detailed and executive level on release related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, etc. between different teams.
Experience performing Section 508 compliance testing using agency testing requirements (currently via AxeMonitor) for all major releases.
Experience developing, updating, and maintaining system documents such as requirements, TAD, regression test plan/scripts, and O&M Plan as part of maintenance releases.
Experience in working with DevOps, Agile, Scrum, Kanban methodologies.
Previous experience in Dev/Sec/Ops Engineering developing continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD)
Experience with of Infrastructure as a Code and the use of Application Release Automation tools
Experience developing and maintaining SOPs and processes for Release Management.
Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work with customers to effect support for release management activities.
Experience using office tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Word.
Preferred Qualification:
Active Secret Security Clearance.
Experience using Flexera within cloud / hybrid infrastructure environment.
Experience preparing user notifications, specifically for Google and other SaaS application releases.
Project management skills and the ability to develop and develop leadership level presentations on release progress.
ITIL v3 or v4 certification.
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.
Target Salary Range
$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.
Job Abstracts is an independent Job Search Engine. Job Abstracts is not an agent or representative and is not endorsed, sponsored or affiliated with any employer. Job Abstracts uses proprietary technology to keep the availability and accuracy of its job listings and their details. All trademarks, service marks, logos, domain names, and job descriptions are the property of their respective holder. Job Abstracts does not have its members apply for a job on the jobabstracts.com website. Additionally, Job Abstracts may provide a list of third-party job listings that may not be affiliated with any employer. Please make sure you understand and agree to the website's Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies you are applying on as they may differ from ours and are not in our control.
We would like to take a second to Welcome You to Job Abstracts, the nation’s largest Pure Job Board. With over 3.1 million job listings from 15,000+ Companies & Organizations, we help job searchers find careers that match their interests. As an anonymous user, you have probably discovered how easy our system is to use. However, you have just scratched the surface of what we can offer.
We encourage you to Register so you can use our most powerful features: searching with multiple terms, setting up multiple locations, establishing favorite companies, and accessing your search history. If you find a job you like, you can apply directly for it, and then, keep notes on it. We will also keep a lookout for jobs that match your search terms and email you when we find something you may like.
You can register for free and the system is free to use. If you like our system so far, click on Register and unlock the power required by serious job searchers.
Any time you conduct a search, the system shows you job matches, ranked by their Relevance Score (RS).
The score is calculated by a proprietary algorithm that uses Intelligent Machine Learning.
The Relevance Score tells you how well the job opportunity matches your search term or terms.
When not logged in, the system is limited to one search term. Scores for single term matches are usually lower.
When you register, log in, and set up multiple terms prioritized by importance, the jobs found for you will receive a much higher Relevance Score.