Release & Production Readiness Manager

Valiant Solutions is seeking a Release & Production Readiness Manager
to join our rapidly growing and innovative team!

The Release & Production Readiness Manager leads release planning, deployment coordination, cutover, and production readiness across Air Hub UAT, Beta, and Production releases. This individual is responsible for ensuring application, data, integration, infrastructure, configuration, security, and operational components are coordinated and ready to support successful releases.

The role works closely with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Data, Dev Sec Ops , Product, and operations teams to establish release plans and readiness criteria, coordinate deployment activities, prepare operational capabilities, and manage the transition of each release into a stable production environment.

Named one of the Best Places to Work in the Washington DC area for 12 consecutive years
, Valiant is proud of our employee-centric culture and commitment to excellence.

This position allows for 100% remote work. Remote work requires a high level of trust in our employees, and we strictly adhere to the details outlined in our Remote Work Policy below.

• 10+ years of experience in enterprise release management, deployment management, production readiness, Dev Ops, IT operations, or related technology delivery roles.
• Demonstrated experience coordinating complex enterprise application releases across multiple technical teams and environments.
• Experience developing release plans, deployment schedules, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and production readiness criteria.
• Strong understanding of modern CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , cloud infrastructure, application deployment, data deployment, and configuration management practices.
• Experience facilitating release readiness and go/no-go reviews.
• Experience with production support, monitoring, incident/problem management, operational runbooks, and stabilization/hypercare.
• Experience managing release dependencies, risks, defects, and technical entry/exit criteria.
• Experience supporting Agile software development and iterative release models.
• Experience with cloud-native environments; AWS experience preferred.
• Experience supporting Federal technology environments preferred.
• Excellent planning, coordination, problem-solving, and communication skills.

• Develop and maintain integrated release plans, release calendars, readiness checklists, and deployment schedules.
• Coordinate application, data, integration, infrastructure, configuration, and other technical deployment activities.
• Establish and track technical and operational release readiness criteria and entry/exit criteria.
• Facilitate technical release readiness reviews and support go/no-go decision-making.
• Develop detailed cutover plans, deployment sequencing, roles, responsibilities, and execution procedures.
• Ensure rollback/backout plans and deployment procedures are documented, validated, and ready for execution.
• Track release dependencies, defects, risks, issues, and technical readiness across delivery teams.
• Coordinate with Quality Engineering to ensure testing results and unresolved defects are incorporated into release readiness decisions.
• Establish production support, incident management, and escalation procedures for each release.
• Ensure operational capabilities including monitoring, alerting, runbooks, SOPs, access, incident/problem management, backup/recovery, and support procedures are established and ready.
• Coordinate post-deployment validation and production verification activities.
• Lead release stabilization and technical hypercare activities.
• Coordinate transition of successfully stabilized releases into normal operations and maintenance.

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