Job Description

Role: Change & Release Manager - SC

Location: London/Hybrid (1-2 days/week onsite) – other sites available throughout England

IR35: Inside

Rate: £635/day (Umbrella) MAX

Duration: 12 Months

Security Clearance: SC

Minimum Requirement:

• Change and release management experience
• DevOps background familiarity
• Hands on experience
• Coordination skills, and know how to pull a release together and make improvements on processes
• Hands on experience on change and release and within DevOps team/culture - important
• Release management experience
• CV’s must evidence hands on experience in change and release within a DevOps team and how they have technical knowledge on Jenkins, Terraform tools or similar. CV’s not showing this will be rejected.

Essential Criteria:

• Demonstrable experience in change management and ability to implement a successful change management process from zero to full maturity for production environments
• experience in asset and configuration management.
• Demonstrable knowledge of managing service components to ensure they meet business needs and performance targets.
• Experience diagnosing and prioritising incidents, investigating their causes and finding resolutions.
• You can manage competing priorities and proactively share knowledge with other team members

Key tasks and deliverables

• Responsible for implementation of end to end release and change management
• Acting as the daily point of contact for release management across delivery teams, leading the release by setting direction and priorities, and resolving conflicts
• Define and implement an environment management policy to ensure effective change management and to safeguard the integrity of all environments
• Managing release risk and acting as a focal point for issues and exceptions related to each risk
• Stakeholder management across technical and operational stakeholders regarding change and release management
• Recommending and implementing process improvements
• Coordinate across teams to identify and track the contents of releases, ensuring that all quality requirements for the release are met
• Manage implementation planning across teams ensuring that preparation, delivery and communication activities are carried out in accordance with the plan
• Run release retrospectives and deliver continual improvement to the release capability
• Liaising with external stakeholders and teams for governance and coordination of work

This is a long term contract of 12 months, Hybrid - 1 to 2 days per week based in a choice of locations

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181