Release Manager

The Digital Modernization Sector at Leidos has a career opportunity for a Release Manager supporting the Global Solutions Management – Operations II (GSM-O II) contract at DISA.

The Release Manager is responsible for working within a fast-paced, Agile team to support the management of requirements, promotion of update sets from one environment to the next, design, integration, and delivery of new functionality in support of existing frameworks in the AWS Cloud.

Primary Responsibilities

• Plan and guide cross-functional teams in executing project tasks using the principles of Lean Agile development.
• Collaborate with process owners, technical leads, and various process stakeholders.
• Release Manager is responsible for all minor and significant releases.
• Have excellent analysis, communication, and problem-solving skills, taking ownership of complex incidents to ensure they are resolved to the satisfaction of the customer.
• Lead and own the established release management process, including the assessment, analysis, planning, and design of release packages, update sets, and assessment of risk.
• Drive cross-team, functional impediments, planning, collaboration, and coordination.
• Help the release team escalate and remove impediments.
• Lead teams and provide coaching on the release process to help resolve process issues.
• Ability to build a product roadmap in Jira.
• Experience developing metrics and reports for tracking sprint, project, and overall program execution.
• Proven track record in implementing Agile methodologies to improve software delivery.
• Excellent stakeholder management and ability to manage their demands.
• Working closely with End Users, Software, Data, and DevOps Engineers, and Data Scientists.
• Assisting in defining processes for technical platforms, system specifications, input/output, and working parameters for hardware and/or software compatibility.
• Identifying the ‘As-Is’ process and working with the Product Owner, SMEs, and developers to create the ‘To-Be’ process.
• Tracking, monitoring, and making updates to user stories directly in the Atlassian Jira tool.
• Develop business process maps using a standard methodology and toolset.
• Collaborating with colleagues to monitor and report technical variances; facilitating resolution of technical issues that adversely impact successful product delivery.
• Quickly adapt to the customer's dynamic environment and adopt their processes and foster innovative ideas.
• Asking questions and raising concerns as soon as possible without being prompted.
• Employing exceptional problem-solving skills.

Basic Qualifications

• Requires US citizenship.
• Must hold an active DoD Secret clearance.
• Must be able to commute to Scott AFB, IL, Ft. Meade, MD, or Ogden, UT for full-time on-site support.
• Hold an active security certification that meets DOD 8570 IAT level II or higher, such as Security+ upon start.
• Bachelor’s Degree with 8–12 years of relevant experience or master’s with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience.
• Experience in Process Mapping.
• Experience in architecture, design, develop, and delivery of data-driven operations capabilities within a DoD environment.
• Experience identifying and tracking related project task dependencies, risks, and possible mitigations.
• Experience estimating the level of effort (hrs./days/resources) to feed a projected project schedule.
• Experience working with a highly technical team and in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience with JIRA, Xray, Confluence, and Git repo.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate with customer representatives, domain experts, systems engineers, and architects.
• Candidate must be able to work with strict deadlines.
• Ability to work well/collaborate with people from many different disciplines with varying degrees of technical experience.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and practices to assist in automating releases.
• High attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to manage multiple releases simultaneously.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Serve as the central point of coordination for AI initiatives across multiple development teams and programs.
• Coordinate dependencies between teams to ensure AI capabilities are developed and implemented consistently.
• Facilitate collaboration between developers, architects, product owners, cybersecurity, and operational stakeholders.
• Develop and maintain an integrated AI roadmap encompassing initiatives across all participating teams.
• Track AI-related user stories, sprint commitments, milestones, and deliverables across teams.
• Ensure AI initiatives comply with applicable cybersecurity, data protection, and governance requirements.
• Provide leadership with consolidated status reporting across all AI initiatives.
• Coordinate demonstrations and stakeholder feedback sessions for emerging AI capabilities.
• Identify opportunities to expand successful AI solutions across additional teams.
• Track adoption, operational effectiveness, and measurable benefits of deployed AI capabilities.
• Process Improvements.
• Project Management.
• Resource Management.
• Risk Management.
• Experience with DISA and DoD Networks.
• Experience with cloud-based AWS services.
• Experience with cloud-based - specifically AWS - enterprise implementations.
• Experience with big data applications.
• Experience with DevOps/DevSecOps, Configuration as Code, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD implementation.
• Experience with Elastic / Kibana.
• Understanding of network routing devices and network device configurations.