Release & Deployment Manager – Federal Health
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Release & Deployment Manager overseeing federal healthcare software releases. Leading planning, coordination, and execution of enterprise software for Veterans nationwide.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and manage enterprise release strategies, deployment schedules, and implementation plans supporting multiple project workstreams.
- Coordinate software releases across engineering, infrastructure, cybersecurity, testing, cloud operations, and Government stakeholders.
- Lead release planning meetings, deployment readiness reviews, and production go/no-go decision activities.
- Develop release calendars and coordinate implementation timelines across multiple technical teams.
- Manage production deployment activities, cutover planning, rollback procedures, and post-deployment validation.
- Monitor release progress, implementation risks, and deployment dependencies while coordinating issue resolution.
- Collaborate with Test Engineers, Engineering Leads, Configuration Management, and cybersecurity teams to ensure production readiness.
- Maintain release documentation, deployment procedures, implementation records, and operational runbooks.
- Track release metrics, implementation performance, and lessons learned to improve future deployment activities.
- Promote DevSecOps, automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD), and release management best practices across the program.
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related discipline.
- Five (5) years of experience managing enterprise software releases, deployments, or implementation activities.
- Experience coordinating production releases across multiple technical teams within complex IT environments.
- Experience supporting Agile, Scrum, SAFe, DevSecOps, CI/CD, or hybrid software development methodologies.
- Experience with Azure DevOps, Jira, ServiceNow, Git, Jenkins, or similar release management and collaboration tools.
- ITIL Foundation, PMP, SAFe Agilist, or equivalent certification is preferred.
- Experience supporting cloud-based implementations, including AWS GovCloud or Azure Government, is preferred.
- Experience supporting VA, VHA, DHA, or other Federal healthcare organizations, health IT, telehealth, or Federal program management is preferred.
- Strong leadership, organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Level 3 Public Trust clearance.
Benefits:
- Health insurance
- Professional development opportunities


















