Release Manager

Yellowbrick Data is a modern cloud Data Warehouse start-up headquartered in Silicon Valley. We are a flexible multi-cloud solution, winning customers with our incredible speed and controllable costs. Our technology is used by the world's largest insurers, credit card companies, telcos and healthcare firms, all of whom depend on our products to make critical decisions quickly without compromising the security of their data. Yellowbrick is well- funded with $248m raised from top-tier venture firms.

Job Overview

At Yellowbrick, we're building the world's most advanced, parallel, scale-out elastic cloud data warehouse. It is in business-critical use at dozens of large enterprise customers who depend on it for their operations. It runs in public clouds and on-premises. Our software scales out to hundreds of nodes on multiple clusters. It's a complex software stack, highly available, supports replication for disaster recovery, and shouldn't go down. Our R&D team solves the hardest computer science problems at all levels of the stack. What we do isn't easy: We design hardware, build an SQL UI for Kubernetes, build an operating system, have created an entire enterprise-grade database from scratch with remote support capability, and actively build and maintain business continuity functions and a growing set of ecosystem integrations.

We are looking for a highly motivated release manager/engineer to join our team and drive innovation and efficiency through our product releases process across all ecosystems.

You're a highly organized individual that enjoys smooth deliveries and clean branches. You pride yourself on being able to manage multiple streams and untangle deliveries. You understand proper code delivery practices and how to manage them in Git. You track roadmaps and tightly manage the delivery into multi-stream pipelines. You're not afraid to follow test pipelines and can manage the release steam to remove blockages to keep us moving forward. You love efficiency and continuously try to improve the delivery process. You have strong communication skills and can work across all engineering disciplines/teams to ensure all is aligned. You understand on delivering to both on premises as well as the cloud and know how/where to optimize each.

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for the Release Management lifecycle that involves the stages such as scheduling the release, coordinating between teams, and deployment of release as per the schedule
• You release software after completing all testing at the validation stage and deployment stage, and work closely with the development team, testing team, and product teams.
• You will have to maintain proper communication and coordination between all teams to deliver through proper channels
• You need to define the strategic usage of release management tools to manage the revenue for the release.
• You will be concerned with planning, testing, tracking, release, deployment, communication, and risk management.
• Plan the release ofproject deliverables tracked in Jira and the release life cycle.
• Communicate the project-related tasks such as plans, timelines, requirements, between different teams.
• Identify the risks that can delay the release and manage them, such that the scope scheduled, and quality of the release is not affected.
• Track the progress and find issues, if any. Always work to improve the process of release.
• Make sure that the release is planned, according to the requirements.
• Schedule the release readiness reviews before deployment and milestone reviews after each release.
• Create plans for the implementation and deployment as per the release schedule.
• Plan and give weekly updates on the release activities
• Lead the Go-Live activities to deploy the software successfully.
• Team up with relevant development teams responsible for building the automation tools used to develop and deploy the software.
• Maintain documentation related to procedures on build and release, various notifications lists, and dependencies.
• Make improvements in the methodologies used for configuration management and development of software that helps to find ways to use in configuration management.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building/releasing complex software stacks
• Strong knowledge of and experience with Git tools
• Strong knowledge of the Atlassian stack(Jira/Confluence)
• Strong background in release and branch management
• Strong communication and documentation skills
• Strong correlation skills with failure patterns and existing validation capabilities
• Good working knowledge of cloud projects
• Good working knowledge of cloud delivery
• Good working knowledge of CI / CD & DevOps culture

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. Yellowbrick Data also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at Yellowbrick Data.

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