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Release Manager

Greece, Athens · Job Posted April 10, 2026
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Job Description

The Release Manager is responsible for ensuring structured, predictable, and high-quality software releases across multiple systems and teams. The role focuses on release governance, environment coordination, and delivery alignment, while promoting the adoption of modern DevOps and CI/CD practices across the organization. The Release Manager acts as a trusted partner to engineering, QA, and DevOps teams, ensuring that releases are well-planned, risks are managed, and deployments are executed smoothly.

Job Responsibility

  • Own end-to-end release management across applications
  • define policies, standards, and Go/No-Go governance
  • Lead release planning, manage dependencies, risks, and cross-team coordination
  • Develop and maintain release calendars
  • align business priorities with technical delivery
  • Provide clear visibility into release status, timelines, and risks
  • Govern environment usage (Dev, Test, UAT, Prod) and ensure consistency and stability
  • Coordinate environment synchronization and reduce environment-related release issues
  • Drive CI/CD and DevOps best practices with engineering and DevOps teams
  • Ensure release quality and readiness (test results, rollback plans, deployment procedures)
  • Monitor release performance, incidents, and improve key delivery metrics through post-release reviews
  • Act as central coordination point across Engineering, QA, DevOps, Product, and Operations, building strong stakeholder alignment

Requirements

  • Computer Science, Engineering, or relevant background
  • 5+ years of experience in Release Management, DevOps, or Software Delivery
  • Strong understanding of release management processes, governance, and lifecycle
  • Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices
  • Experience coordinating complex, cross-team and multi-application releases
  • Solid understanding of environments (Dev, Test, UAT, Production) and deployment flows
  • Strong knowledge of risk, issue, and change management practices
  • Experience with monitoring, reporting, and release performance metrics
  • Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills
  • Experience in agile environments
  • strong English communication (written & verbal)
  • self-motivated and well-organized
  • Fulfilled military services (for male candidates)

What we offer

  • Award-winning work environment - certified #1 Top Employer in Greece
  • Competitive pay, bonus & remuneration package
  • Private Health & Medical Insurance
  • Hybrid way of working: a blend of remote and office-based working, including the option to work from abroad
  • Unlimited access to learning resources and trainings
  • Vodafone Parental Leave: 16 weeks of fully paid parental leave to all employees regardless of gender, sexual orientation or length of service
  • Spirit of Vodafone Day: one day each quarter dedicated to your personal development
  • Extra days off: Vodafone Day, Family Day, Volunteering Day
  • Office amenities (subject to the office location): such as restaurant, beauty corner, gym and parking
  • Special employee offers and discounts
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