Location
Chicago, IL
Salary
Not specified
Type
contract
Posted
Today
Job Description
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Hiring: Release Engineer / Release Manager (Azure DevOps, AWS, CI/CD)
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Location:
Chicago, IL (Hybrid – 2 days/week onsite, moving to 5 days/week)
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Duration:
12 Months
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Experience:
12\+ Years
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Start:
August 2026
We are looking for an experienced
Release Engineer / Release Manager
with strong expertise in
Azure DevOps, AWS, CI/CD, and Release Management
to support enterprise-scale software delivery.
Must-Have Skills:
✅ 12\+ years of IT experience
✅ 8\+ years in Release/Delivery Management
✅ 6–7\+ years with CI/CD Pipelines, Azure DevOps, Git \& DevOps tools
✅ Hands-on AWS (ECS, EC2, EBS, S3, RDS, VPC, IAM, Lambda, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Route53, ELB, etc.)
✅ Python scripting
✅ Agile/Scrum experience
✅ Release planning, deployment coordination \& Go/No-Go management
✅ Strong communication and stakeholder management
Responsibilities:
🔹 Manage end-to-end release planning and execution
🔹 Monitor and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines
🔹 Coordinate with QA, Product, Infrastructure, Business \& Development teams
🔹 Build UAT and Production release plans
🔹 Improve release quality, automation, and deployment timelines
🔹 Support DevOps activities and AWS cloud infrastructure
Candidate Submission Requirements:
✔️ Business outcome-focused project summary (last 10 years preferred)
✔️ Most challenging release assignment and how challenges were resolved
✔️ Experience managing multiple stakeholders during Go/No-Go decisions
✔️ Complex rollback (or no rollback) release scenario
✔️ Hands-on contribution to CI/CD, deployment automation, and pipeline optimization
✔️ Example of improving release quality or delivery timelines
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Interview Process:
2 Rounds
📩 If you're interested or know someone who fits this role, please share your updated resume along with the required project summaries and responses.
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