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Annapolis Junction, MD
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ABOUT PRISM
PRISM is devoted to modernization and innovation across technology, security, and IT enterprise solutions. We are recognized for meeting performance requirements and exceeding customer expectations since 1994. Our culture is founded on relationships, opportunity, and success. Offering comprehensive benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, and 401K along with our people - first approach sustains our reputation as a premier employer.
PRISM is seeking a Release Manager to support a mission-critical federal program. This role leads release planning, governance, and deployment activities across a portfolio of applications and infrastructure environments. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in release and configuration management, software build and deployment, DevOps practices, and cross-functional coordination. This is a fully onsite position in Annapolis Junction, MD or Colorado Springs, CO.
RESPONSIBILITIES
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (SKILLS/EDUCATION):
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Active Secret Clearance
PRISM is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
PRISM is devoted to modernization and innovation across technology, security, and IT enterprise solutions. We are recognized for meeting performance requirements and exceeding customer expectations since 1994. Our culture is founded on relationships, opportunity, and success. Offering comprehensive benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, and 401K along with our people - first approach sustains our reputation as a premier employer.
PRISM is seeking a Release Manager to support a mission-critical federal program. This role leads release planning, governance, and deployment activities across a portfolio of applications and infrastructure environments. The ideal candidate brings strong experience in release and configuration management, software build and deployment, DevOps practices, and cross-functional coordination. This is a fully onsite position in Annapolis Junction, MD or Colorado Springs, CO.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Plan, schedule, and execute application releases, operating system patches, security updates, hardware upgrades, and other changes across mission-critical systems.
- Manage the release lifecycle, including version control, implementation and rollback planning, Go/No-Go reviews, deployment coverage, and post-deployment validation.
- Maintain deployment, implementation, and communication plans in accordance with configuration management and document control standards.
- Coordinate software builds, DevOps configuration changes, and deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Partner with Agile, DevSecOps, engineering, testing, operations, infrastructure, and third-party teams to align release schedules, dependencies, and resources.
- Facilitate TRB, CRB, CRQ, and OCCB meetings; prepare agendas, materials, decisions, and action items.
- Identify and mitigate risks, issues, conflicts, and resource constraints affecting release scope, schedule, quality, or stability.
- Provide timely release communications on schedules, readiness, status, outcomes, and required actions.
- Administer GitLab, including upgrades, patching, incident resolution, access, and account management.
- Track release activities, change requests, and deployment status in EWM and ServiceNow.
- Coordinate application testing, release validation, production readiness, and post-deployment verification.
- Improve release and configuration management processes, tools, documentation, and training.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (SKILLS/EDUCATION):
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in release management, DevOps, configuration management, or a related technical role.
- Experience managing enterprise-level software builds, releases, and deployments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
- Experience with version control, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, and Agile or DevSecOps methodologies.
- Strong communication, facilitation, organization, and cross-functional coordination skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent releases and priorities.
- Active Secret clearance is required.
- Due to contract requirements, candidates must be U.S. citizens; candidates with dual citizenship cannot be considered.
- Daily onsite work and rotational on-call required - Annapolis Junction, MD or CSOC.
- This contract supports systems that require 24x7x365 uptime. Candidates must be willing and able to meet recall requirements, including participation in a rotational on- call schedule.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience administering GitLab or supporting GitLab upgrades, patching, access, and account management.
- Experience with UrbanCode Deploy, Jazz Engineering Workflow Management (EWM), Remedy, or ServiceNow.
REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Active Secret Clearance
PRISM is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.
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