Release & Production Readiness Manager

Position Description Valiant Solutions is seeking a Release & Production Readiness Manager  to join our rapidly growing and innovative team! The Release & Production Readiness Manager leads release planning, deployment coordination, cutover, and production readiness across AirHub UAT, Beta, and Production releases. This individual is responsible for ensuring application, data, integration, infrastructure, configuration, security, and operational components are coordinated and ready to support successful releases. The role works closely with Engineering, Quality Engineering, Data, DevSecOps, Product, and operations teams to establish release plans and readiness criteria, coordinate deployment activities, prepare operational capabilities, and manage the transition of each release into a stable production environment. Named one of the Best Places to Work in the Washington DC area for 12 consecutive years , Valiant is proud of our employee-centric culture and commitment to excellence. If you are interested in learning more about Valiant and this opportunity, we invite you to apply now! This position allows for 100% remote work. Remote work requires a high level of trust in our employees, and we strictly adhere to the details outlined in our Remote Work Policy below.  Required Experience 10+ years of experience in enterprise release management, deployment management, production readiness, DevOps, IT operations, or related technology delivery roles. Demonstrated experience coordinating complex enterprise application releases across multiple technical teams and environments. Experience developing release plans, deployment schedules, cutover plans, rollback procedures, and production readiness criteria. Strong understanding of modern CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, application deployment, data deployment, and configuration management practices. Experience facilitating release readiness and go/no-go reviews. Experience with production support, monitoring, incident/problem management, operational runbooks, and stabilization/hypercare. Experience managing release dependencies, risks, defects, and technical entry/exit criteria. Experience supporting Agile software development and iterative release models. Experience with cloud-native environments; AWS experience preferred. Experience supporting Federal technology environments preferred. Excellent planning, coordination, problem-solving, and communication skills.   Responsibilities Develop and maintain integrated release plans, release calendars, readiness checklists, and deployment schedules. Coordinate application, data, integration, infrastructure, configuration, and other technical deployment activities. Establish and track technical and operational release readiness criteria and entry/exit criteria. Facilitate technical release readiness reviews and support go/no-go decision-making. Develop detailed cutover plans, deployment sequencing, roles, responsibilities, and execution procedures. Ensure rollback/backout plans and deployment procedures are documented, validated, and ready for execution. Track release dependencies, defects, risks, issues, and technical readiness across delivery teams. Coordinate with Quality Engineering to ensure testing results and unresolved defects are incorporated into release readiness decisions. Establish production support, incident management, and escalation procedures for each release. Ensure operational capabilities including monitoring, alerting, runbooks, SOPs, access, incident/problem management, backup/recovery, and support procedures are established and ready. Coordinate post-deployment validation and production verification activities. Lead release stabilization and technical hypercare activities. Coordinate transition of successfully stabilized releases into normal operations and maintenance. About Valiant Solutions Valiant Solutions is a security-focused IT solutions provider with public clients nationwide. Named one of the fastest growing privately held companies by Inc. 5000, Washington Technology’s Fast 50, and Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work in the D.C. area, Valiant Solutions prides itself on providing its employees with great benefits and career development opportunities. As a company, we are just as committed to growing careers as we are to building world-class IT solutions, all while enjoying an unparalleled work-life balance. We are in a phase of tremendous growth and building the team that will take us to the next level. We seek people whose talents and accomplishments will contribute to a thriving company, who have the character to support their capacity, and can make a positive impact on our culture. Alongside our talented team, you’ll learn to think quickly on your feet and expand your own personal and professional skill set. Our management team will inspire you to consider new perspectives and challenge you to become a better practitioner in the fast-paced industry of IT security. We hire people we respect – and we trust them to deliver results leveraging their expertise. If you would enjoy working in a dynamic environment as part of a stellar team of professionals, then we invite you to apply online today. Benefits Snapshot (includes, but not limited to) Valiant pays 99% of the Medical, Dental, and Vision Coverage for Full-time EmployeesValiant contributes 25% towards Health Coverage for Family and Dependents100% Paid Short Term Disability and Life Insurance Policy for Full-time Employees100% Paid Certifications401K Matching up to 4%Paid Time OffPaid Federal HolidaysWellness & Fitness ProgramValiant University – Online Education and Training PortalFSA programs for: Medical Costs, Dependent Care, Transit, and ParkingReferral Bonuses The salary range for this position is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. It has been benchmarked in relation to the scope of the rol