Devops Technical Project Lead

About Sopra Steria
Sopra Steria, a major Tech player in Europe with 50,000 employees in nearly 30 countries, is recognised for its consulting, digital services and solutions. It helps its clients drive their digital transformation and obtain tangible and sustainable benefits. The Group provides end-to-end solutions to make large companies and organisations more competitive by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors and innovative technologies with a collaborative approach. Sopra Steria places people at the heart of everything it does and is committed to putting digital to work for its clients in order to build a positive future for all. In 2024, the Group generated revenues of €5.8 billion.
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Release Management

Change management

Identify change incidents (new enhancements/ production bugs or fixes) and record all artefacts for the request

Coordinate with the change management board for approval of any significant/ major change request

Updation of records and Set up release calendar with well-defined milestones to be achieved for all the releases

Release planning to deployment across a platform

Drive process integration of release management with change and configuration management through ITIL or through business quality demands for individual services

Manage and coordinate monthly & quarterly release plans based on scope of enhancements

Define roadmap based on used cases and oversee all builds and deployment of releases to production and non-production environments

Coordinate with Application team, Delivery team and PMOs and define scope of enhancement across the portfolio

Create release management support roadmap (planning build deployment early life support closure) and call out dependencies both upstream and downstream defining high level execution plan

Align all the key stakeholders with the change request and timely inform them wrt to the change requests (ex downtime etc)

Research and maintain new user stories and technologies and analyze their application and relevance for release and deployment

Manage risks, resolve issues that affect release scope, quality and schedule and control one to multiple changes in a release unit

Collaborate with delivery team in development, testing and pre-product for all the releases before production

Coordinate change requests backlogs pending requests and conduct reviews

Maintains a release repository and manages key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies and notification lists

Ensure green zone time for code implementation/deployment after thorough testing and analysis by the development & testing team

Periodic reporting to senior management after every release about all implemented changes providing details on those successfully implemented, rolled back or cancelled changes

Deliver

Aerospace System understanding a must preferably Airbus

Strong experience working with PDM/PLM systems especially from Aerospace

Strong ability to guide the Systems team and coordinate with all development teams

Ability to coordinate with all the suppliers for the smooth deployment of the change.

Release Management: For Daily/ weekly/ monthly quarterly deployments release assessment score

Release Management for package deployment on Integration/Validation/Acceptance/Production environments

Timely Record maintenance (repository of releases as per change requests)

PLM/PDM/CAD Tools: VPM, PASS SSI(Windchill), CATIA

Environments: AIX, Linux, Openshift

Deployment Tools: ARA, Ansible

Devops tools with strong CI/CD understanding

Total Experience Expected: 08-10 years

Mandatory Skills: Aerospace experience. Experience: 8-12 Years.

Role: Senior Release Manager

Industry Type: IT Services & Consulting

Department: Engineering - Software

Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

Role Category: DevOps

Education

UG: Any Graduate

PG: Any Postgraduate

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