Role Summary: As Release Manager, you will be responsible for managing and coordinating software releases, ensuring smooth transitions from development to production environments. This role involves automating build, test, and deployment processes, and collaborating with various teams to maintain the integrity and reliability of software products. This is a hybrid position where you will work from any of our UK Aptia offices, as well as from your home address. Here's what you'll be doing: Working alongside other Release Manager in Managing day to day activities around releases from development through to production. Producing deployment, implementation, and run books plans. Utilizing source code repositories and ensure adherence to version control best practices. Automate build, test, and deployment processes to enable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD). Design and implement release pipelines for smooth and reliable software rollouts. Collaborating with development, QA, and operations teams to coordinate release schedules and dependencies. Maintaining and improving overall release process to achieve best practice. Maintaining documentation related to release procedures, configurations, and modifications. Securing relevant resource for releases. Here's what we're looking for: Experience in a Release Manager role or a similar role in a financial institution. Extensive experience of projects includes a strong understanding of the software development life cycle (SDLC) with software development models like Agile, Scrum Model, JIRA, Waterfall Models and Agile Ops methodologies. Strong knowledge of version control systems. Proficiency in scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash, PowerShell) is desirable but not essential. Experience with using DevOps CI/CD pipeline tools is essential. Associated applications such as Jenkins, GitLab CI would be advantageous. Understanding of change control, process and procedures and sign-offs.