Release and Change Management, CI/CD and Automation, Middleware / Senior Consultant Specialist

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Senior Consultant Specialist. As a Release and Environment Management Specialist you’ll manage application releases, production changes, deployment activity and environment stability across enterprise platforms.

Day to day success is measured through high-quality change documentation, controlled deployments and clear stakeholder communication. You’ll also play a key role in reducing deployment failures, build issues and repeat incidents through strong troubleshooting and practical preventative actions.

Responsibilities:

• Own release and environment delivery from planning through implementation, validation, closure and handover
• Create and manage change orders with 100% quality assurance against approved change requirements
• Execute code and configuration deployments across relevant environments including retrofit activities after fixes and emergency change
• Perform site switching using F5 load-balancing technology including pre-change checks and post-change validation
• Resolve deployment and release issues using fix-forward approaches in line with approved change, release, security and operational procedures
• Manage Git repositories including branch management, code promotion, merge coordination and repository hygiene
• Investigate build and pipeline issues affecting release workflows including Jenkins troubleshooting and log analysis
• Maintain environment stability through proactive checks, incident investigation, root-cause analysis and preventative actions

Requirements:

• Bring proven experience in release management, deployment management, application support or production operations
• Demonstrate hands-on capability managing production and non-production deployments end to end
• Use Jenkins across the release workflow including pipeline execution, monitoring, troubleshooting and release validation
• Apply strong Git experience including branching and merging strategies, pull requests, code reviews, conflict resolution and traceability
• Work with WebSphere Application Server (WAS) and IBM HTTP Server (IHS) including deployment, configuration, log analysis and issue resolution
• Use AppDynamics for end-to-end application performance monitoring and service health verification
• Apply working knowledge of Ansible Automation Platform including playbook execution, job monitoring and troubleshooting
• Operate effectively within formal change-management processes including standard, emergency and retrospective changes