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Project description
We are seeking an experienced Change & Release Management Specialist to oversee and coordinate application changes and releases across multiple environments in a large enterprise services environment. The role focuses on managing the release lifecycle, ensuring smooth deployments, and collaborating closely with Release Managers, Application Teams, and Service Teams to support automation-driven processes. You need to have strong experience in release planning, process automation, configuration management, and enterprise-level deployments. Responsibilities Manage and coordinate all application changes and releases across non-production and production environments Collaborate with Release Managers, Application, Platform, and DevOps teams to integrate automated release workflows Support CI/CD-driven release pipelines and perform minor automation enhancements using Python and YAML, and implement runbook improvements Ensure all releases follow change management policies, approvals, and audit requirements Provision and manage cloud-based environments and containerized applications (Kubernetes, Docker/Podman) as part of the release process Manage security and compliance scans (Checkmarx secrets, vulnerability checks, internal tools) as part of releases Monitor logging and observability using cloud-native tools and Splunk Maintain detailed documentation for releases, runbooks, automation processes, and SOPs Perform ad-hoc operational, release-related, and automatio