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Job Summary

This person will be responsible for IT Release Management, change management, Infrastructure Upgrade project management, Major Incident Management, Environment Management, Deployment Management, Refresh Management & Information Security Compliance for Global IT Enterprise Applications in Equinix. The project involves working with various teams in IT to manage the security patching of various Operating System (OS), DB & Application, as part of Threat & Vulnerability Management (TVM). ​

Responsibilities

• ​​​Partners with Scrum and system teams to create awareness of priority and schedule of deployment activities through environments to ensure the focus is sustained on the highest priority technical and business features

• Uses agile methodologies to plan, coordinate, and lead deployments of major releases, weekly patches, and daily changes​

• Optimizes and improves processes and methodology and reviews with different stakeholders and impacted parties to make sure they are onboard with changes and implements those changes

• Leads implementation of process changes and change management cycles, Testing, Deployment and Support Planning

• Reviews test, deployment, and support plans to ensure completeness and appropriate level of detail. Ensures plans are communicated to stakeholders effectively. Leadership of release management teams, critical escalations, and driving issues to closure Release Management​

•  Defines the annual release schedule and single global release plan that includes all projects aligned to specific releases· Responsible for all aspects of release management and execution, providing leadership and guidance to the release management and stakeholder teams·  ​

• Conducts Release Readiness reviews, Milestone Reviews, and Business Go/No-Go reviews.  Leads and coordinates Go-Live activities, including execution of deployment plans and checklists. ​
  Proactively develops and maintains a strong knowledge of the systems related to Release Engineering and makes recommendations to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, or security of these systems as appropriate.

Qualifications

• ​DevOps/CI-CD process (Jenkins, Kubernetes, GitHub)​

• Strong analytical, communication, and organizational skills​

• Experience with automated release management applications and frameworks​

• Agile Methodologies, SCRUM, DevOps and Technical Project Management (TPM)

• Advanced English

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