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Release Manager

Job ID 2024-5473
Job Locations US-Remote-United States

Overview

Are you a Release Manager who would like to have a positive impact for millions of people? If so, we may have an opportunity for you!

 

TISTA associates enjoy above Industry Healthcare Benefits, Remote Working Options, Paid Time Off, Training/Certification opportunities, Healthcare Savings Account & Flexible Savings Account, Paid Life Insurance, Short-term & Long-term Disability, 401K Match, Tuition Reimbursement, Employee Assistance Program, Paid Holidays, Military Leave, and much more!

 

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Responsibilities

  • The Linux/Unix Division Release Manager will participate as a team with senior leaders, team leads, technical SMEs and other release managers to document, track and fulfill the division's Deployments, Releases, and Deliveries.
  • The Release manager, while creating their release strategy, must consider all principal tasks: to eliminate any possibility of breaking services, introducing new bugs, cause outages, or presenting conditions that would negatively impact customers or their ability to service veterans. Therefor, the Release Manager must be able to Identify issues or work with teams that identify issues and work with teams to provide and document solutions, and understand/participate in Risk analysis.
  • The release manager must have excellent communication skills, written and oral, as they will directly interface with all Linux/Unix Division's customers, all Divisional Managers, team leads, and technical SMEs. Additionally, they will coordinate divisional releases, schedule Linux/Unix Vulnerability Mitigation Strategies, Technical Refreshes and coordination outages, and act as the division's Customer Service Liaison.
  • The Release manager, while creating their release strategy, must consider all principal tasks: to eliminate any possibility of breaking services, introducing new bugs, cause outages, or presenting conditions that would negatively impact customers or their ability to service veterans. Therefor, the Release Manager must be able to Identify issues or work with teams that identify issues and work with teams to provide and document solutions, and understand/participate in Risk analysis.
  • The Release Manager's schedule may have to flex schedule to match the available time of a planned release event.

Qualifications

  • Must have experience in managing individual releases of software, hardware, or other IT system's components.
  • Must have experience in coordinating with QA, Development, packaging, and hardware teams.
  • Must have experience in documenting releases, risks and in maintaining schedules of planned releases.
  • Must have experience in one or more of the following tools: Jira, Monday, ServiceNow, Mural, or any Agile related tool.
  • Must have experience in SharePoint and either ITIL/ITSM or Scrum/Kanban.
  • Must have experience in establishing a clear process for preparing and planning, building, testing, and deploying a release, both orally and through presentation/documentation/written communication (email, Teams meeting and Chat, Cellular contact via text or calls, etc.).
  • Must have experience in building and hosting PowerPoint presentation, virtually or in person and must be able to comprehend and convey complex information

 

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related scientific/technical discipline and 10+ years’ work experience
  • Eight (8) years of additional relevant experience may be substituted for education (18 years total)

 

Clearance: 

  • The ability to pass a Tier 4S/High Background Investigation 

 

Remote:

  • Remote, USA
  • Friday - Tuesday  (3:00 PM - 11:30 PM CST Time)

Pay Range:

  • The pay for this position ranges from $51,000 to $63,000
  • The actual salary offer will carefully consider a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.
  • Also, certain positions are eligible for additional forms of compensation, such as bonuses.
  • TISTA associates are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits plan! More information can be found here: https://tistatech.com/working-at-tista/

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TISTA Science and Technology Corporation, a CMMI Maturity Level 3 company, focuses on delivering information technology and professional services to Federal and State agencies. TISTA is recognized in 2019 by Inc. 5000 as one of the fastest-growing private companies in the US. TISTA is also a recipient of 2019 Top Veteran-Owned Companies by the Washington Business Journal. TISTA also received a 2018 Moxie Award in the GovCon category.

Here at TISTA Science and Technology, we value Veterans and encourage all to apply!
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Employment Transparency:
TISTA is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and embraces diversity in our employee population. It is the policy of TISTA to provide equal opportunity to all qualified applicants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or genetic information. TISTA will refrain from discharging, or otherwise discriminating against, employees or applicants who inquire about, discuss, or disclose their compensation or the compensation of other employees or applicants.

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The Pay Transparency Policy is available here.

Tista is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to recruiting@tistatech.com or call (301) 968-3420 and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

TISTA is a federal contractor and is subject to the federal contractor COVID requirements under the new FAR/DFARS clauses and must comply with the incorporated Guidance.

If the candidate is hired to perform work on or in connection with one of TISTA’s federal contracts, TISTA is contractually obligated to ask the candidate to verify and show proof of vaccination status and the candidate will be required to comply with mask and social distancing requirements imposed by the FAR/DFARS as well as any additional requirements imposed by TISTA’s customers for any required onsite work.