DevSecOps Release Manager ( Saudi national only )

What We Need We are looking for a DevSecOps Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle. 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 You'll Do 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

• 3–5 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  Nationality Requirement: Saudi national only