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Release Analyst

22nd Century Technologies, Inc.
Pay Rate: $50-$65/hr
United States, Texas, Taylor
Nov 27, 2024
Job Title: Release Analyst Location: Taylor, TX (76574) Duration: 12+ Months Job Description: Provides support, oversight, administration, and facilitation of changes that affect * facilities, infrastructure, hardware, operating systems, database platforms, firmware, network, and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations. Ensure audit tracking, reliability, availability, correct functionality, system integrity, and risk mitigation in 's IT Service Delivery model by coordinating, communicating, and recording changes to 's non-development environments. [Coordinates & facilitates all * Software, Hardware, and Infrastructure code and configuration changes.] Roles & Responsibilities: Organize and facilitate effective release planning meetings. Managing release schedules, and/or key infrastructure initiatives across multiple applications. Planning, managing, and executing release cycles, including tracking release deliverables, functional/security test sign-offs, and leading release efforts for non-prod and prod deployments. Prepare release plans for various applications, track and maintain them. Review release plans, change requests in release pipelines Coordinate release builds to the appropriate environments (Testing, Production, etc.) Perform data analysis using SQL for generating release metrics and scorecards Assist the team in establishing a consistent and predictable release cadence Standardization of release process across IT applications by working with various stakeholders Cross functional dependency management mapping for various releases and maintenance of the same Collaborate with release leads/managers to deliver a comprehensive plan and ensure delivery excellence across the application portfolio. Flexibility to work outside of business hours as needed to support release deployments. Providing support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB) as needed Required Experience: Minimum 3 years' experience in IT Change and Release Management. Minimum of five (5) years (in excess of degree requirements stated above) of progressively responsible experience in system integration processes Understanding of ITIL Best Practices in IT Service Management (Change/Release/Incident/Problem) Management Working knowledge with tools like Jira, Confluence. Preferred Skills: Cloud infrastructure knowledge/experience is a plus. Service Now and DevOps experience is Plus. SQL/VB Scripting/Data Analysis knowledge is a plus. Education: Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering or related field or six years applicable. experience is required. ITIL V4 certification (Preferred).