🌟 About the Role
We’re looking for an experienced Application Release Manager to own and optimize our release processes across QA, UAT, and Production environments in a secure AWS-based FinTech platform.
You’ll be the gatekeeper for deployments , ensuring every release is smooth, automated, and compliant — enabling reliable, audit-ready software delivery in a fast-paced, regulated environment.
🔧 What You’ll Do
- 🧭 Manage and coordinate deployments across QA, UAT, and Production environments.
- 🗂️ Maintain up-to-date documentation and configuration records for all environments.
- ✅ Perform post-release validation and smoke testing to confirm stability.
- 🔗 Link releases to Git commits, JIRA tickets, and release / change documentation.
- 🧾 Prepare and present change requests (CRs) to the CAB with Delivery Manager support.
- ⚙️ Drive automation and CI / CD improvements using tools like AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions.
- 🧠 Ensure monitoring, alerting, and logging are in place for all environments.
- 🧩 Troubleshoot non-production environment issues and manage demo / sandbox environments.
- 💰 Track and optimize environment costs and resource usage.
💡 What You’ll Bring
🌐 Strong hands-on experience with AWS (ECS, EKS, EC2, Lambda, RDS, S3, Terraform / CloudFormation).🔄 Proven experience managing CI / CD pipelines and automated deployments.🧠 Deep understanding of Git , branching strategies, and release versioning.🧩 High proficiency with JIRA (workflow management, release tracking, and reporting).💻 Advanced scripting skills (Bash, Python, PowerShell, or similar) — able to automate and streamline deployment processes.💳 Experience working in FinTech or other regulated industries , with strong awareness of governance, compliance, and audit requirements.🌈 Nice to Have
🐳 Experience with Kubernetes and containerized deployments.🔵 Knowledge of blue / green or canary deployment strategies.📜 ITIL, AWS, or DevOps certifications.💸 Familiarity with AWS Cost Explorer , CloudHealth , or other cost management tools.