DevSecOps Release Manager ( Saudi national only )
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About the Role
Oivan Group seeks a DevSecOps Release Manager to lead and govern the release lifecycle in Riyadh. The role involves coordinating release activities across teams, tracking quality and security gates, and improving release predictability.
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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
Requirements
- 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
- 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
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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 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 and Engagement
- 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
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