DevOps Technical Release Manager

Description

The DevOps Technical Release Manager at works in the Marcom Platform & Services (MP&S) team, which is responsible for delivering iconic brand experiences across various platforms.
This team collaborates with creatives and software engineers to maintain and evolve global solutions.
The role involves overseeing deployments for Apple’s high-traffic website, www.apple.com, and ensures smooth operations for both routine updates and major launch events.
The position requires a strong background in release management for web systems, including CMS, apps, and services. Experience with SCM tools like SVN/ Git, front-end and back-end technologies, and web server configurations (Apache/NGINX) is necessary.
Proficiency in Python, Bash, and Groovy scripting is required.
The role demands excellent attention to detail, problem-solving skills, and the ability to work under pressure. Effective communication and interpersonal skills are key for collaborating with both creative and technical teams.
Responsibilities include coordinating with various teams to ensure timely and successful releases, creating documentation, identifying risks, and seeking continuous process improvements.
The role also involves managing release schedules, monitoring progress, and driving automation initiatives for efficiency.
High-level administration tasks, such as user management and provisioning development environments, are also part of the job.
Flexible hours are required to support global teams.

Responsibilities

• Release Management experience is required for 5-10 years.
• Management experience is required for 5-10 years.
• Serverless Architecture experience is required for 2-5 years.
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) experience is required for 5-10 years.
• Web Services experience is required for 2-5 years.
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) experience is required for 2-5 years.
• AEM experience is required for 2-5 years.
• CI/CD experience is required for 5-10 years.
• Content Management Systems experience is required for 2-5 years.
• DevOps/SRE experience is required for 5-10 years.
• HTML/CSS/JavaScript experience is required for 5-10 years.
• Python experience is required for 5-10 years.