Release Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Release Manager to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard.

• 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience
• Clearance:
  Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Candidate must meet ONE of the following:
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (examples:
    Cyber 101; IT Project Manager (Advanced) Playlist); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: RCCE Level 1; CCISO; CCSP; CISA; CISM; CISSP; CISSP‑ISSEP; CISSP‑ISSMP; DAWIA PM Advanced; FITSP‑A; FITSP‑M; GFACT; GSLC).
• Required experience and skills:
  • Release management, Dev Ops, or release engineering experience with at least 5+ years leading enterprise release operations.
  • Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, build/release tooling, and release orchestration across multi‑environment landscapes.
  • Strong proficiency in release governance, change control processes, release risk assessment, rollback planning, and incident coordination.
  • Ability to validate release artifacts, interpret test results, and enforce quality gates and compliance requirements (security, RMF/ATO evidence as applicable).
  • Excellent stakeholder coordination, communication, and executive briefing skills; experience producing release metrics and post‑release analyses.
• Desired:
  • Prior DoD/ARNG experience integrating releases into RMF/ATO workflows and multi‑domain (NIPR/SIPR/cloud) environments.
  • Experience with release automation tools (Jenkins, Git Lab CI, Azure Dev Ops), feature flagging, blue/green or canary deployments, and release orchestration at scale.
  • Certifications such as DAWIA PM, CISSP, CCSP, or relevant Dev Ops/Release Management credentials.

• Plan, coordinate, and govern enterprise release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Define release schedules, milestones, deployment windows, and cutover plans aligned with organizational priorities and technical dependencies.
• Oversee release pipelines and evaluate deployment readiness; validate build artifacts, test results, rollback procedures, and release packages.
• Coordinate cross‑functional release planning with development, QA, Dev Sec Ops , operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure safe and reliable deployments.
• Maintain the authoritative release calendar, change windows, risk assessments, and release artifacts to support enterprise deployment strategies.
• Develop and enforce release policies, checklists, quality criteria, and governance gates to ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
• Direct incident coordination for release‑related failures, lead root‑cause analyses, and drive corrective actions across teams.
• Produce release reports, post‑release metrics, and executive summaries that communicate deployment outcomes and release quality.
• Drive tooling, automation, and workflow improvements to increase deployment reliability, reduce risk, and advance continuous‑delivery maturity.