We are looking for a DevSecOps Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle. The Release Manager will act as the single owner for release progress, ensuring that every release follows a controlled, evidence-based process with clear quality, security, operational readiness, approval, and rollback checkpoints to enable safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs.
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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Work Conditions: Full-time, On-site or Hybrid based on account needs
Key Responsibilities:
- Maintain and coordinate the end-to-end release calendar, release scope, dependencies, priorities, and readiness tracking.
- Coordinate release activities across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support teams.
- Prepare and maintain release evidence packs, including test evidence, security scan results, operational readiness, approval status, known risks, dependencies, and rollback plans.
- Track completion of quality, security, artifact, and operational readiness gates before production release.
- Monitor exceptions, risks, open issues, and go/no-go readiness status.
- Track release quality checks such as code review, regression testing, UI checks, security scans, dependency checks, and operational readiness.
- Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant technical teams.
- Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.
- Track release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, hotfix frequency, bug escape rate, MTTR, and gate compliance.
- Support continuous improvement in release predictability, quality, security, and operational readiness.
Required Experience:
- 3–5 years of experience in release management, DevOps coordination, DevSecOps, technical delivery management, quality assurance, or platform operations.
- Experience supporting or coordinating production releases for digital platforms.
- Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support.
- Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release gates, deployment approvals, environment promotion, and rollback planning.
- Familiarity with release governance, change control, evidence-based approvals, and production readiness.
- Basic to practical understanding of DevSecOps practices such as SAST, DAST, dependency checks, QA activities, monitoring, and operational readiness.
- Experience with agile delivery, Jira, GitLab, dashboards, release calendars, and risk/dependency tracking.
Required Skills:
- Strong coordination, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus.
- Ability to work under pressure during production releases and incidents.
- Strong documentation and reporting discipline.
- Ability to balance delivery speed with production safety.
- Ownership mindset and strong attention to detail.
- Ability to identify incomplete readiness, highlight rollback gaps, and escalate risks clearly.
Success Measures:
- Improved release predictability and readiness.
- Reduction in production surprises and emergency fixes.
- Clear visibility of release decisions, risks, and escalations.
- Increased gate compliance across quality, security, and operations.
- Improved visibility through release dashboards and evidence packs.
- Reduced hotfix frequency and bug escape rate.
- Improved rollback and recovery readiness.
Nationality Requirement: Saudi national only.
