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Technical Release Manager

Oivan Group Oy

Job Location:

Riyadh - Saudi Arabia

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer

Posted: 11 July 2026 (30+ days ago)

Application Deadline: 19 November 2026

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What We Need

We are looking for a Technical Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle with at least 3 years of experience. The Release Manager will act as the single owner for release progress ensuring that every release follows a controlled evidence-based process with clear quality security operational readiness approval and rollback check points to have a safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs.

What Youll Do

As a Technical Release Manager at Oivan you own the end-to-end execution of releases for high-impact digital services with our key customer. You are the bridge between engineering product and delivery teams ensuring that releases are not just planned but correctly prepared executed and validated in production.

This is a hands-on operational role. You arent just designing strategy; you are in the drivers seat during release windows acting as the primary point of contact to ensure that our mission-critical platforms remain stable secure and predictable.

Key Responsibilities

Maintain and coordinate the end-to-end release calendar release scope dependencies priorities and readiness tracking.
Coordinate release activities across Product Development QA Security DevOps Operations and Support teams.
Prepare and maintain release evidence packs including test evidence security scan results operational readiness approval status known risks dependencies and rollback plans.
Track completion of quality security artifact and operational readiness gates before production release.
Monitor exceptions risks open issues and go/no-go readiness status.
Track release quality checks such as code review regression testing UI checks security scans dependency checks and operational readiness.
Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant technical teams.
Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.
Track release KPIs such as deployment frequency lead time hotfix frequency bug escape rate MTTR and gate compliance.
Support continuous improvement in release predictability quality security and operational readiness.

What You Have

Required Experience

35 years of experience in release management DevOps coordination DevSecOps technical delivery management quality assurance or platform operations.
Experience supporting or coordinating production releases for digital platforms.
Experience working with cross-functional teams including Product Engineering QA Security DevOps Operations and Support.
Practical understanding of CI/CD pipelines release gates deployment approvals environment promotion and rollback planning.
Familiarity with release governance change control evidence-based approvals and production readiness.
Basic to practical understanding of DevSecOps practices such as SAST DAST dependency checks QA activities monitoring and operational readiness.
Experience with agile delivery Jira GitLab dashboards release calendars and risk/dependency tracking.

Required Skills

Strong coordination collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
Strong communication skills in English; Arabic is a plus.
Ability to work under pressure during production releases and incidents.
Strong documentation and reporting discipline.
Ability to balance delivery speed with production safety.
Ownership mindset and strong attention to detail.
Ability to identify incomplete readiness highlight rollback gaps and escalate risks clearly.

Success Measures

Improved release predictability and readiness.
Reduction in production surprises and emergency fixes.
Clear visibility of release decisions risks and escalations.
Increased gate compliance across quality security and operations.
Improved visibility through release dashboards and evidence packs.
Reduced hotfix frequency and bug escape rate.
Improved rollback and recovery readiness.

Location: Riyadh Saudi Arabia
Engagement: Full-time / onsite or hybrid based on account needs
Reporting To: Service Delivery Manager / Account Leadership

Required Experience:

Manager

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