The Release Engineer plays a pivotal role in driving excellence across Network International’s client delivery and operational readiness. This role is responsible for defining and executing the Branch Strategy, consolidating production-ready code, and coordinating with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure seamless production readiness of incremental solutions.
The Release Manager will lead continuous improvements in the Change and Release Management processes, with a focus on enhancing efficiency, reducing risk, and ensuring compliance with internal and external standards.
In addition to strategic oversight, the ideal candidate is expected to be hands-on with:
- Code management and version control
- Build and deployment automation
- Cloud technologies and CI/CD pipelines
This role demands a blend of technical expertise, process leadership, and stakeholder engagement to ensure successful and timely releases aligned with business goals.
• Lead release backlog planning, team coordination, and update the release calendar based on prioritized features.
• Evaluate Requests for Change (RFCs), assess risks, and determine impact across clients, systems, and services.
• Participate in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings to schedule releases and conduct risk assessments.
• Identify and mitigate risks or impediments affecting delivery timelines, quality, and roadmap execution.
• Coordinate release content across service requests, third-party applications, and internal teams.
• Communicate key project milestones, changes, and dependencies across stakeholders.
• Manage cross-functional collaboration across geographically distributed teams.
• Conduct release readiness reviews, milestone checkpoints, and Go/No-Go decisions.
• Document and maintain deployment plans in Jira and Confluence.
• Provide weekly release reporting and communicate schedules to business stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product owners, technologists, and scrum teams to drive delivery.
• Promote Agile best practices, facilitate retrospectives, and implement continuous improvements.
• Ensure smooth implementation of changes through robust planning, testing, and deployment processes.
• Define and track PMO performance metrics to measure effectiveness.
• Develop and execute change management plans, including resistance management.
• Maintain synchronization of project code branches and oversee build & deployment practices.
• Degree in Computer Information Systems
• Strong log analysis and troubleshooting/Problem Solving skills
• Working knowledge of Atlassian toolset (Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket) is mandatory
• Should have strong verbal and written communication skills
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools in context to CI/CD pipeline
• Working knowledge of Python, YML (Jinja), MAVEN, Batch Scripting
• Oracle SQL knowledge and practical experience are mandatory
• Experience of Cloud Computing/Virtual machines is mandatory
• Working knowledge of Azure, Terraform, Ansible is a plus
• Knowledge of Card Management System, SQL, Testing methodology is a plus
Skills Required
- Degree in Computer Information Systems
- Strong log analysis and troubleshooting Problem Solving skills
- Working knowledge of Atlassian toolset (Jira, Bamboo, Bitbucket)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Working knowledge of DevOps tools in CI/CD pipeline
- Working knowledge of Python, YML, Jinja, MAVEN, Batch Scripting
- Oracle SQL knowledge and practical experience
- Experience of Cloud Computing/Virtual machines
- Working knowledge of Azure, Terraform, Ansible
- Knowledge of Card Management System, SQL, Testing methodology
What We Do
Over the past 30 years, we have built a business based on long-standing and trusted relationships with many of the leading merchants, financial institutions and payment networks operating in the Middle East and Africa. Such relationships are based on our comprehensive capabilities, scale, local presence in the multiple markets in which we operate, alongside our trusted reputation. This gives us significant scale and leadership in the region, where we operate in more than 50 countries, serve over 130,000 merchants and 250 financial institutions and fintech customers, whilst managing more than 16 million customer credentials. We have a diversified business model and operate across the entire consumer payments value chain. We do this with a growth-focused strategy through two business lines: • That enables our merchant customers to ‘take payments’, by providing them with various payment acceptance methods, both online and offline. • Which supports our financial institution, fintech and other payment issuing institution customers in enabling consumers ‘make payments’, by managing and processing their consumer payment credentials and transactions.
