Senior Release Manager
Pure StorageSanta Clara, California
Full Time
Posted February 27, 2026
$168k - $252k
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Job Description
The Release Manager oversees the planning, coordination, and execution of software releases across multiple applications and environments, ensuring timely, reliable, and compliant deployment while collaborating with cross-functional teams and driving continuous improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Plan, coordinate, and manage software release activities across multiple applications and environments.
- Maintain and oversee release calendars, ensuring alignment with business priorities and technical readiness.
- Ensure releases meet quality, compliance, and governance standards, including documentation and rollback procedures.
- Oversee deployment execution, identify and manage risks, dependencies, and issues during releases.
- Communicate release scope, schedule, and status to stakeholders and coordinate with cross-functional teams.
- Develop and track metrics to measure release success and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
Requirements
- A minimum of 8 years of experience in release management, build release engineering, or DevOps coordination in complex IT or high-tech product environments.
- Strong understanding of software development lifecycles (SDLC), agile methods, and ITIL release management principles.
- Experience managing release processes across multiple business applications such as CRM, ERP, HCM, etc.
- Proven experience coordinating cross-functional teams and developing governance structures for release management.
- Solid technical understanding of work planning tools such as JIRA, CI/CD pipelines, source control systems like Git, and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or GitHub CI/CD.
- Ability to establish and maintain release calendars, collate release scope, dependencies, and schedules across multiple applications, teams, and environments.
- Experience ensuring all releases meet defined entry and exit criteria, change control policies, and compliance requirements.
- Ability to define, refine, and maintain release management standards, templates, and best practices, including release documentation such as release notes, deployment plans, and rollback procedures.
- Experience overseeing environment management governance, promotion criteria, and environment refresh and deployment runbooks.
- Capability to identify, communicate, and manage release-related dependencies, risks, and issues, and develop mitigation and rollback plans.
- Experience serving as the primary escalation point during release execution to ensure timely resolution of blocking issues.
- Strong communication skills to provide clear, consistent updates on release scope, schedule, and status to stakeholders including PMO, OCM, development teams, and business stakeholders.
- Ability to collaborate with program and PI planning teams to align release schedules with business priorities and key events such as blackout periods.
- Experience establishing and tracking release-related metrics such as success rates, deployment frequency, refresh cycle time, and change failure rates, and producing dashboards and reports.
- Experience partnering with SRE, DevOps, and development teams to automate and streamline release processes, and drive continuous improvement initiatives.
- Calm and decisive under pressure, with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Process-driven but adaptable to agile and fast-moving delivery models.
- Excellent organizational and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent releases under tight deadlines with minimal supervision.
- Familiarity with cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, and containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes (preferred).
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Datadog and Splunk (preferred).
- Working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and practices such as PI Planning (preferred).
- Experience working in regulated or large enterprise environments (preferred).
- Experience working with ServiceNow for change management, CMDB, and related functions (preferred).
Benefits & Perks
Salary range: 168,000 - 252,000 USD annually
Work primarily in-office at the specified location
Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events
Potential eligibility for incentive pay and equity
Inclusive and diverse work environment
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