Release Manager

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Release Manager to join our team in the greater DMV area, supporting the Army National Guard.

Responsibilities

Plan, coordinate, and govern enterprise release activities across development, testing, staging, and production environments.
• Define release schedules, milestones, deployment windows, and cutover plans aligned with organizational priorities and technical dependencies.
• Oversee release pipelines and evaluate deployment readiness; validate build artifacts, test results, rollback procedures, and release packages.
• Coordinate crossfunctional release planning with development, QA, DevSecOps, operations, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure safe and reliable deployments.
• Maintain the authoritative release calendar, change windows, risk assessments, and release artifacts to support enterprise deployment strategies.
• Develop and enforce release policies, checklists, quality criteria, and governance gates to ensure compliance with security and regulatory requirements.
• Direct incident coordination for releaserelated failures, lead rootcause analyses, and drive corrective actions across teams.
• Produce release reports, postrelease metrics, and executive summaries that communicate deployment outcomes and release quality.
• Drive tooling, automation, and workflow improvements to increase deployment reliability, reduce risk, and advance continuousdelivery maturity.

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Qualifications

• 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI clearance.

• Candidate must meet ONE of the following:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Data Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, or Software Engineering; OR
  • Relevant DoD/military training (examples: Cyber 101; IT Project Manager (Advanced) Playlist); OR
  • Relevant professional certification or equivalent experience (examples: RCCE Level 1; CCISO; CCSP; CISA; CISM; CISSP; CISSPISSEP; CISSPISSMP; DAWIA PM Advanced; FITSPA; FITSPM; GFACT; GSLC).

• Required experience and skills:

  • Release management, DevOps, or release engineering experience with at least 5+ years leading enterprise release operations.
  • Handson experience with CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, build/release tooling, and release orchestration across multienvironment landscapes.
  • Strong proficiency in release governance, change control processes, release risk assessment, rollback planning, and incident coordination.
  • Ability to validate release artifacts, interpret test results, and enforce quality gates and compliance requirements (security, RMF/ATO evidence as applicable).
  • Excellent stakeholder coordination, communication, and executive briefing skills; experience producing release metrics and postrelease analyses.

• Desired:

  • Prior DoD/ARNG experience integrating releases into RMF/ATO workflows and multidomain (NIPR/SIPR/cloud) environments.
  • Experience with release automation tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, Azure DevOps), feature flagging, blue/green or canary deployments, and release orchestration at scale.
  • Certifications such as DAWIA PM, CISSP, CCSP, or relevant DevOps/Release Management credentials.

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can't be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.