Release Analyst

United Global Technologies

Release Analyst

Taylor, TX
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    NO SUBS, NO Sponsorship, w-2 only contract to hire

    Onsite 100%

    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. [Coordinates & facilitates all Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure code and configuration changes.]

    Essential Job Duties:

    • Organize and facilitate effective release planning meetings.
    • Managing release schedules, and/or key infrastructure initiatives across multiple applications.
    • Planning, managing, and executing release cycles, including tracking release deliverables, functional/security test signoffs, and leading release efforts for non-prod and prod deployments.
    • Prepare release plans for various applications, track and maintain them.
    • Review release plans, change requests in release pipelines
    • Coordinate release builds to the appropriate environments (Testing, Production, etc.)
    • Perform data analysis using SQL for generating release metrics and scorecards
    • Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable release cadence
    • Standardization of release process across IT applications by working with various stakeholders
    • Cross functional dependency management mapping for various releases and maintenance of the same
    • Collaborate with release leads/managers to deliver a comprehensive plan and ensure delivery excellence across the application portfolio.
    • Flexibility to work outside of business hours as needed to support release deployments.
    • Providing support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB) as needed

    Education:

    Bachelor’s degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related field or six years applicable experience is required.

    ITIL V4 certification (Preferred)

    Work Experience:

    • Minimum 3 years experience in IT Change and Release Management
    • Minimum of five (5) years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in system integration processes
    • Understanding of ITIL Best Practices in IT Service Management (Change/Release/Incident/Problem) Management
    • Working knowledge with tools like Jira, Confluence, Service Now
    • Cloud infrastructure knowledge/experience is a plus
    • SQL/VB Scripting/Data Analysis knowledge is a plus