Release Manager

Responsibilities

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Release Manager to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard.

 

Responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and govern enterprise release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Define release schedules, milestones, deployment windows, and cutover plans aligned with organizational priorities and technical dependencies.
• Oversee release pipelines and evaluate deployment readiness; validate build artifacts, test results, rollback procedures, and release packages.
• Coordinate cross‑functional release planning with development, QA, DevSecOps, operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure safe and reliable deployments.
• Maintain the authoritative release calendar, change windows, risk assessments, and release artifacts to support enterprise deployment strategies.
• Develop and enforce release policies, checklists, quality criteria, and governance gates to ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
• Direct incident coordination for release‑related failures, lead root‑cause analyses, and drive corrective actions across teams.
• Produce release reports, post‑release metrics, and executive summaries that communicate deployment outcomes and release quality.
• Drive tooling, automation, and workflow improvements to increase deployment reliability, reduce risk, and advance continuous‑delivery maturity.

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Qualifications

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance.

• Candidate must meet ONE of the following:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (examples: Cyber 101; IT Project Manager (Advanced) Playlist); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: RCCE Level 1; CCISO; CCSP; CISA; CISM; CISSP; CISSP‑ISSEP; CISSP‑ISSMP; DAWIA PM Advanced; FITSP‑A; FITSP‑M; GFACT; GSLC).

• Required experience and skills:

  • Release management, DevOps, or release engineering experience with at least 5+ years leading enterprise release operations.
  • Hands‑on experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, build/release tooling, and release orchestration across multi‑environment landscapes.
  • Strong proficiency in release governance, change control processes, release risk assessment, rollback planning, and incident coordination.
  • Ability to validate release artifacts, interpret test results, and enforce quality gates and compliance requirements (security, RMF/ATO evidence as applicable).
  • Excellent stakeholder coordination, communication, and executive briefing skills; experience producing release metrics and post‑release analyses.

• Desired:

  • Prior DoD/ARNG experience integrating releases into RMF/ATO workflows and multi‑domain (NIPR/SIPR/cloud) environments.
  • Experience with release automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), feature flagging, blue/green or canary deployments, and release orchestration at scale.
  • Certifications such as DAWIA PM, CISSP, CCSP, or relevant DevOps/Release Management credentials.

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Peraton Overview

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Target Salary Range

$104,000 - $166,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position. Salary is determined by various factors, including but not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the position, the individual’s experience, education, knowledge, skills, and competencies, as well as geographic location and business and contract considerations. Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay.

EEO

EEO: Equal opportunity employer, including disability and protected veterans, or other characteristics protected by law.