Stratostaff Release Manager Jobs in Kenya

Stratostaff Release Manager Jobs in Kenya

Profile Introduction

Our client, one of the top banks in Kenya that offers a range of finance products, seeks to bring on board a Release Manager. They will be responsible for making new and changed services and features available for use by defining a standardized process for planning, building, and testing the release, scheduling the release, pushing the release, deploying the release, providing early life support and closure of releases.

Works closely with the Change Management and Build Team to ensure that all changes to production are non-disruptive.

Key Responsibilities

Define the standard process for planning, testing, scheduling, and deploying the releases.

Own the responsibility of preparing a Release Plan. Coordinates with Change Management team Build team and other key stakeholders regarding the same.

Assign and track release activities with various teams.

Packaging, controlling, and integrating the release components as per the dependencies identified.

Coordinate the release schedule and resources required both internally and from third parties.

Coordinate with the Build team to build the release and produce the build document, which will contain.

Build, installation and test plans, procedures and scripts.

Monitoring and quality assurance of the release

Processes and procedures for distributing, deploying, and installing the release into the target environment.

Release unit roll-back procedures

Change remediation steps in case of release failure.

Ensure that all mandatory tests are conducted, and all tests

are successful as per the success criteria before a release can be flagged off to production.

Obtain the approvals for downtime-related information wherever necessary in advance and ensure that communications are send out to all stakeholders as per the release plan

Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.

Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the releases successfully.

Minimum Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field of study

Professional qualification: ITIL Foundation and Project Management

At least 5 years experience in Release management in a large environment working multiple systems with 3 years supervisory experience

At least 4 years experience in Applications Support, Infrastructure Support (Hardware & Network)

Experience with IT Service Management processes

Project Management experience

How to Apply

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