🚀 Hiring: Release Analyst
📍 Location: Taylor, TX (Hybrid – 2 days onsite required)
📝 Type: Contract (6 months)
🔎 About the Role
We’re looking for a hands-on Release Analyst with strong Change & Release Management experience supporting infrastructure and 24/7 IT operations.
This role is critical to ensuring secure, compliant, and well-governed releases across infrastructure, cloud, and enterprise systems.
If you’re comfortable running CAB meetings, coordinating cross-functional teams, and managing structured release cycles — this is for you.
🎯 What You’ll Be Doing
📅 Release Planning & Coordination
- Lead release planning meetings across application, infrastructure, and cloud teams
- Maintain structured release calendar (OS patching, security updates, cloud deployments)
- Establish consistent enterprise release cadence
⚙️ Release Execution & Governance
- Manage end-to-end infrastructure & application release cycles
- Oversee:
- Windows/Linux patching
- Firmware updates
- Network & storage changes
- System upgrades
- Ensure policy, security, and compliance adherence
- Track approvals and production readiness
☁️ Cloud & Automation (Preferred)
- Support Azure infrastructure deployments
- Collaborate with DevOps/SRE teams
- Exposure to CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform is a plus
🛡️ Compliance & Continuous Improvement
- Ensure security & CIP regulatory compliance
- Track KPIs (patch success rate, downtime, rollback trends)
- Lead RCA & post-mortem reviews
🤝 Governance & ITSM
- Facilitate and run CAB meetings
- Use ServiceNow & Jira for change/release workflows
- Support ITIL processes (Change, Release, Incident, Problem Management)
✅ What We’re Looking For
- 3+ years in IT Change & Release Management (infrastructure focused)
- 5+ years progressive experience in IT operations/infrastructure
- Strong experience with:
- OS patching & infrastructure upgrades
- ServiceNow & Jira (both required)
- SQL (joins, complex queries)
- Advanced Excel (data analysis & reporting)
- Experience running CAB meetings
- ITIL knowledge (certification a plus, not required)
🎓 Bachelor’s degree OR 6+ years relevant experience in lieu of degree
⭐ Nice to Have
- Azure experience
- Ansible / Terraform
- CI/CD pipelines
- Scripting (Python, Shell, PowerShell)
- ITIL v4 Certification
