Senior Release Analyst - Newport Beach, United States - Motion Recruitment

Description

• 5-10 years of experience either managing or supporting applications/platforms/services deployments, infrastructure upgrades and security patching.
• Expertise in Jira, Jenkins, Git, and deployment automation tools (Chef, Rundeck, and CloudBees Pipeline)
• Bachelor's degree required
• Solid understanding of project management methodologies including the ability to identify and resolve issues, manage risks, develop detailed work plans and specifications, and run team meetings
• Familiarity with software development life cycle (SDLC), both traditional and agile
• Strategic thinking an understanding of strategic business objectives and the ability to develop a vision and strategy for ISTM and related processes and execute it effectively, in order to drive results toward those objectives
• Proven ability to collaborate, build relationships and influence individuals at all levels in a matrix management environment (as well as external vendors and service providers) to ensure that segregation and overlapping roles are identified and coordinated
• Management of both Technology and business stakeholders
• Strategic relationship management including working with both Infrastructure and Development Teams
• Effective leadership and an ability to drive change
• Ability to clearly present written information and findings and subsequent remediation plans to all levels of management, in and outside of Technology
  
  What You Will Be Doing
  
  Daily Responsibilities
  • Develop, analyze, and manage Application deployment and infrastructure maintenance plans.
  • Identify dependencies, mitigate risks and scheduling conflicts.
  • Supervise progress to implementation plan and design a backout strategy.
  • Work cross-functionally to help facilitate applications and infrastructure changes to pre and production environments using deployment automation tools.
  • Secure applications checkout resources and facilitate checkouts in controlled environments.
  • Monitor/police environment changes and ensure stability and quality.
  • Ensure Compliance with Enterprise Change Management Guidelines, provide guidance to IT Delivery Teams in establishing discipline around Build Delivery and Release process.
  • Plan, communicate and coordinate database refresh activities for controlled environments
  • Create and/or maintain process documentation/workflows, knowledge articles and self-service guidance for applicable IT Services
  • Collect and document business requirements for policy and process improvement, including automation efforts
  • Facilitate process workflow modeling to collaborate on process and policy improvements, automation capabilities and clearly defined end-to-end use cases
  • Conduct maturity assessments against the policy/process activities to highlight areas of improvement or concerns
  • Define, update, deploy and manage standards for multiple processes, to include identification of interdependencies between defined processes desired
  • Establish and support controls and procedures to review, assess and prioritize these requirements for incorporation into tool and process designs.
  • Extract reports and provide a high-level analysis of data for review in alignment with supporting ITSM-defined metrics
  • Review information and trends to ensure the output of processes is achieving the desired results and the corresponding services are meeting agreed upon service levels.
  • Provide key management reporting of and metrics as they pertain to defined goals and objects and their critical success factors.
  • Identify and assess issues and risks and bring inconsistencies and problems to the attention of management
  • Maintain a complete understanding of and adheres to all IT policies and processes
  • Organize Advisory/Review Board and Council meetings, record meeting decisions, report out on meeting minutes and action items; follow through to completion of action items.
  • Manage the communication plans within respective management functions
  • Maintain an up-to-date Master Calendar for respective management functions