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DevSecOps Release Manager ( Saudi national only )

Riyadh, KSA
Full-time
Permanent employee

What We Need

 We are looking for a DevSecOps Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle. The Release Manager will act as the single owner for release progress, ensuring that every release follows a controlled, evidence-based process with clear quality, security, operational readiness, approval, and rollback check points to have a safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs.

What You'll Do

Key Responsibilities 
  • Maintain and coordinate the end-to-end release calendar, release scope, dependencies, priorities, and readiness tracking.
  • Coordinate release activities across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support teams.
  • Prepare and maintain release evidence packs, including test evidence, security scan results, operational readiness, approval status, known risks, dependencies, and rollback plans.
  • Track completion of quality, security, artifact, and operational readiness gates before production release.
  • Monitor exceptions, risks, open issues, and go/no-go readiness status.
  • Track release quality checks such as code review, regression testing, UI checks, security scans, dependency checks, and operational readiness.
  • Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant technical teams.
  • Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.
  • Track release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, hotfix frequency, bug escape rate, MTTR, and gate compliance.
  • Support continuous improvement in release predictability, quality, security, and operational readiness.

What You Have

Required Experience
  • 3–5 years of experience in release management, DevOps coordination, DevSecOps, technical delivery management, quality assurance, or platform operations.
  • Experience supporting or coordinating production releases for digital platforms.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product, Engineering, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support.
  • Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines, release gates, deployment approvals, environment promotion, and rollback planning.
  • Familiarity with release governance, change control, evidence-based approvals, and production readiness.
  • Basic to practical understanding of DevSecOps practices such as SAST, DAST, dependency checks, QA activities, monitoring, and operational readiness.
  • Experience with agile delivery, Jira, GitLab, dashboards, release calendars, and risk/dependency tracking.

Required Skills 

  • Strong coordination, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
  • Strong communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus.
  • Ability to work under pressure during production releases and incidents.
  • Strong documentation and reporting discipline.
  • Ability to balance delivery speed with production safety.
  • Ownership mindset and strong attention to detail.
  • Ability to identify incomplete readiness, highlight rollback gaps, and escalate risks clearly.

Success Measures 

  • Improved release predictability and readiness.
  • Reduction in production surprises and emergency fixes.
  • Clear visibility of release decisions, risks, and escalations.
  • Increased gate compliance across quality, security, and operations.
  • Improved visibility through release dashboards and evidence packs.
  • Reduced hotfix frequency and bug escape rate.
  • Improved rollback and recovery readiness.

Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
Engagement: Full-time / onsite or hybrid based on account needs 
Reporting To: Service Delivery Manager / Account Leadership 
Nationality Requirement: Saudi national only