Agile Release Engineer

Title: Agile Release MAnager

Location: Hybrid – 3 days a week in Manchester

Salary: From: £55,000

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Reporting to the Senior Scrum Master, the Agile Release Engineer is responsible for supporting all activities required to ensure oversight, management and control of squad-based releases through development, QA and live. Working closely with the Senior Scrum Master, and the delivery team (including but not limited to Engineering Managers, Programme Managers, Project Managers, Product Managers, QA managers and Scrum Masters) the Agile Release Engineer will support the planning of ii’s release schedule across assigned technologies, managing inter-dependencies both from a technical perspective but also business readiness.

The focus of this role is delivery of change through agile CI/CD pipeline delivery, but also works closely with the Service Management Analyst and Implementation Coordinator to ensure alignment and coordination across the entire portfolio.

• As directed by the Senior Scrum Master, work with Project Managers, Product Managers and Scrum Masters to support the management of ii’s Agile release schedule across Programmes, Projects, Agile Delivery Squads and Infrastructure Teams.
• Support the identification and management of interdependencies or risks between all release types and the overall change pipeline, ensuring appropriate communication, reporting and control including escalation to the Senior Scrum Master as required.
• Support the identification and management of squad change concentration risk through ensuring the volume of change impacting different customer segments and internal departments over given periods of time is acceptable and consumable.
• Understand end enforce ii’s change and release control standards and policies, ensuring that while change is released safely, it is also done in a pragmatic way that doesn’t stifle our rate of change and is within the company risk appetite
• As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, pro-actively manage ii’s CI/CD development and test environments working with technical teams to establish best practice, address BAU issues and ensure optimal availability to support the change delivery life cycle.
• As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, work with each technology team to manage the CI/CD pipelines through the identification and management of deployment backlog, risks and dependencies.
• As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, co-ordinate regular deployments of ii’s mobile applications across agile delivery squads.
• As assigned by the Senior Scrum Master, support implementation management where a change or series of changes touches on multiple platforms with a number of both technical and non-technical teams involved.
• Contribute to the establishment and management of best practice release management processes, tools, standards and reports
• Contribute to the establishment of improved processes to enhance release delivery quality and to improve visibility/performance across the portfolio of projects/activities.
• Contribute to a knowledge management platform and library structure to create, store, and share best practices and documentation from releases.
• Ensure timely notification of issues/problems and make recommendations for resolution to release & project teams and resolve and/or elevate testing issues where required.
• Contribute towards a release repository and manage key…