We are seeking a highly skilled and detail-oriented Release Manager to own and orchestrate our end-to-end software release lifecycle. You will serve as the central coordination hub between engineering, QA, DevOps, product, and business stakeholders — ensuring that software is delivered reliably, on schedule, and with minimal risk to production environments. This role demands both deep technical fluency and exceptional organizational leadership.
Key Responsibilities:Release Planning & Coordination
Define, own, and continuously refine the release calendar across multiple product lines and environments
Lead release planning sessions, coordinating dependencies across engineering squads, QA, infrastructure, and product teams
Establish and enforce release governance processes, branching strategies, and code freeze policies
Facilitate Go/No-Go decisions by aggregating readiness signals from all stakeholders
Deployment & Pipeline Oversight
Oversee CI/CD pipeline health, ensuring automated build, test, and deployment stages are performant and reliable
Partner with DevOps/Platform engineers to design and improve deployment automation (blue/green, canary, rolling releases)
Manage environment promotion flows (Dev → Staging → Production), enforcing quality gates at each stage
Drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices to standardize environment configuration
Risk Management & Incident Response
Identify, document, and mitigate release risks before they reach production
Own rollback and hotfix procedures; lead rapid response during release-related incidents
Conduct post-release reviews and blameless post-mortems, driving actionable improvements
Maintain and test disaster recovery runbooks related to deployment failures
Stakeholder Communication
Produce clear, timely release notes, deployment summaries, and status reports for both technical and executive audiences
Act as the single point of contact for release status visibility across the organization
Proactively communicate delays, risks, and scope changes with full context and mitigation plans
Process Improvement & Tooling
Continuously evaluate and improve release processes, reducing lead time, deployment frequency, and change failure rate (DORA metrics)
Evaluate and implement release management tooling (e.g., Jira, Confluence, LaunchDarkly, Spinnaker, ArgoCD)
Champion a DevOps culture of shared ownership, automation-first thinking, and continuous delivery
Compliance & Audit Readiness
Ensure releases adhere to regulatory and compliance requirements (ISO 27001, GDPR, where applicable)
Maintain complete audit trails of all changes, approvals, and deployments
Enforce change management policies aligned with ITIL or equivalent frameworks
RequirementsRequired Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in release management, DevOps engineering, or a closely related technical role
- Proven track record managing complex, multi-team software releases in fast-paced Agile/SAFe environments
- Deep understanding of CI/CD principles and hands-on experience with pipelines (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, or equivalent)
- Strong familiarity with version control systems (Git), branching strategies (GitFlow, trunk-based development), and merge management
- Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, or Azure) and container orchestration (Docker)
- Proficiency with project and issue tracking tools (Jira, Confluence)
- Solid understanding of QA processes, test automation integration, and quality gate design
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills — able to align technical and non-technical stakeholders under pressure
- Experience with feature flag management
- Familiarity with GitOps tooling IaC (Terraform)
- Knowledge of ITIL change management processes and DORA metrics
- Relevant certifications: AWS DevOps Professional, , ITIL Foundation, SAFe Release Train Engineer (RTE), or PMP
- Experience in regulated industries (Entertainment, Aggregation, Marketplace)
- Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar for release automation
What We Do
Mondia is a leading mobile commerce company, dedicated to connecting, digitalising and monetising consumers worldwide. Mondia provides access to over 700m consumers through more than 60 mobile operators across 30 countries. Mondia has deep insight into where the markets are headed and has the expertise to leverage best-in-breed technologies to solve business challenges while enabling the ultimate end-user experience. Continuously driven by innovation, Mondia is driving entry into new sectors like health and creating disruptive products such as Monsooq. With offices in 8 locations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Mondia is committed to digitalise the globe through its distinctive technology, strategic partnerships and extensive network and global coverage.
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