Release Manager

Job Title: Release ManagerContract Type: Permanent, Full Time, Part TimeSalary Range: £55,000 - £65,000 Location: EastleighClosing Date for applications: Tuesday 17th SeptemberRelease Manager: The Release Manager will lead key aspects of release management, including planning, scheduling, communications, tracking, team coordination, deployment, and feature release.

This role will work closely with teams and stakeholders across the business, IT, and InfoSec, to establish continuous release plans & delivery and implement continuous improvement practices. Main Responsibilities as Release Manager -

• Establish and manage key Release Management practices, incorporating automation for quality alignment, readiness gates (automated or manual), and milestone decisions.
• Contribute to overall governance processes to maintain high delivery standards to customers.
• Ensure environments are available or built on time and are fit to purpose for the successful release delivery.
• Manage, mitigate, and resolve risks and issues affecting release delivery.
• Continuously improve the release management approach through innovation and collaboration.

Skills and experience you need as Release Manager -

• Demonstrable experience (at least 3 years) in release management for a financial services organization releasing new features and updates frequently.
• Proficient in Agile, SDLC, and DevOps practices to effectively fulfil the role, with expertise in CI/CD, particularly in Azure DevOps Pipelines.
• Experience in cloud technologies, preferably Microsoft Azure, with Azure certification considered a plus.
• Familiarity with release management tooling.

Here are some of the benefits you can enjoy within the Release Manager role based in Eastleigh:

At Ageas we offer a wide range of benefits to support you and your family inside and outside of work, which helped us achieve, Top Employer status in the UK.

Flexible Working - Smart gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part-time/job-shares . We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health - Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Yoga, Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth - Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work - Well-being activities, yoga, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family - Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks' at full pay and paternity/non-pregnant parent/co-adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them - Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover

Getting Around - Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover

Get some Tech - Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Supporting you back to work - Return to work programme after maternity leave

About Ageas:We're one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work, which is echoed in the service we provide to over four million customers.As an inclusive employer, we encourage anyone to apply. We're a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and Women in Finance Charter, a Stonewall diversity champion and a Disability Confident Employer (which means interviews are guaranteed for applicants with a disability who meet the minimum role criteria). For more information please see our Diversity and Inclusion pages.Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full-time, part-time or job share arrangements.To find out more about about our Award Winning team and culture, please visit Careers at Ageas.

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