Infrastructure Release Analyst

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$60.00/hr - $67.00/hr

Job Title - Infrastructure Release Analyst (W2 ONLY)

Job Location - Taylor, Texas, USA, 76574

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USC/GC/EAD only / Residing in US

Responsibilities:

Provides support, oversight, administration, and facilitation of changes that affect facilities, infrastructure, hardware, operating systems, database platforms, firmware, network, and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations. Ensure audit tracking, reliability, availability, correct functionality, system integrity, and risk mitigation in IT Service Delivery model by coordinating, communicating, and recording changes to non-development environments.

• Organize and lead effective release planning meetings, ensuring cross-functional alignment across application, infrastructure, and cloud teams.
• Define and maintain a structured release calendar for applications and infrastructure, including OS patching, cloud deployments, middleware upgrades, and security updates.
• Establish a consistent and predictable release cadence across IT applications, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components.

• Manage end-to-end infrastructure/application release cycles, coordinating on-premises and/or cloud environments to minimize disruptions.
• Ensure adherence to enterprise IT policies and security standards while executing application and infrastructure releases.
• Track release deliverables, security compliance checks, and functional/security test approvals, ensuring production readiness.
• Monitor infrastructure changes, including system upgrades, network modifications, storage enhancements, and patching cycles.
• Provide oversight for OS patching, covering major and minor updates for Windows, Linux along with firmware updates for storage and network CIs and other enterprise systems.
• Oversee cloud infrastructure deployments - Azure, ensuring successful configuration and validation.
• Collaborate with Dev Ops and IT System Reliability teams to integrate automated release pipelines, CI/CD best practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies.
• Utilize IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning and release management.

• Ensure infrastructure releases comply with security policies and CIP regulatory requirements.

• Track and report key release performance metrics, including patch deployment success rates, release cycle efficiency, system downtime, and rollback trends.
• Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reviews for failed or delayed releases, driving process improvements.

• Act as a liaison between development, operations, cloud, and security teams to optimize infrastructure release management.
• Provide support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB), ensuring infrastructure changes are properly assessed and documented.
• Manage cross-functional dependencies for application and infrastructure releases, maintaining up-to-date documentation.

• Utilize Jira/Service Now to manage release workflows, change approvals, and infrastructure deployment tracking.
• Support ITSM processes, including Change, Release, Incident, and Problem Management.

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