Release Manager

Company Description

Founded and headquartered in Switzerland, Avaloq is continuously expanding its global footprint with around 2,500 colleagues in 10 countries, and more than 160 clients in 35 countries. We are an industry-leading provider of wealth management technology and services for financial institutions around the world, including private banks and wealth managers, investment managers, as well as retail and neo banks. Our research led approach and continual innovation is powered by the passion and creativity of our colleagues.
We are always looking for talented people to join us on our mission to orchestrate the financial ecosystem and democratize access to wealth management. Avaloq offers the opportunity to work closely with some of the world’s leading financial institutions as we jointly develop and shape careers. Championing a collaborative, supportive and flexible work environment empowers our colleagues to reach their full potential.

Job Description

Your team
As a member of the Global Release Management team, you will be part of a group of highly skilled, motivated and dynamic people that are responsible for release management services for Avaloq products. You will be part of the team that provides the core release management services in the location Switzerland and will be responsible for building and releasing various software artifacts.

Your task
As a Release Manager, you are entrusted of the following tasks and responsibilities:

• Plan, schedule, and manage software releases for different Avaloq Products
• Developing, monitoring and enforcing software development lifecycle
• Coordinate with technical teams for CI/CD related topics
• Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and product teams to ensure smooth release processes and deployments
• Build-up and disseminate release management know-how to peers
• Oversee build and release processes using Avaloq specific tools as well as with standard tools such as Jenkins, Gradle and Bitbucket.
• Technical consulting for the setup of the Avaloq Database factory and for Avaloq specific applications (ICE, Smart Client, Integration Robot)
• Issues investigation and troubleshooting: provide installation insight, and approach on addressing installation invalids and errors
• Identify places for quality improvement and execution speed up
• Contribution to design and technical documentation for software life cycle
• Manage containerization and orchestration pipelines using Docker and Kubernetes
• Monitor and improve release procedures and automation strategies
• On-call service (7x24) 
• Working hours: the time zone of Zurich (CET/CEST) should be covered

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree (or higher) in Computer Sciences / Engineering / Mathematics & Physics or similar educational background
• Proven experience (3+ years) as a Release Manager, DevOps Engineer, or similar role.
• Solid experience of the software development life cycle
• Required attributes: analytical, problem-solving, reliable, effective and service oriented
• Solid understanding of CI/CD best practices and build & deployment automation
• Hands-on experience with:
  • PL/SQL and Oracle Database
  • Jenkins, Gradle, and Bitbucket
  • Docker and Kubernetes
  • Git (GitHub or Bitbucket)
• Experience in analyzing technical problems and automating recurring administrative activities
• Ability to work on multiple tasks and cope with strict deadlines
• Ability to autonomously get around in a highly challenging, fast paced and complex environment
• Excellent communication skills and a strong focus on customer interaction
• Good written and spoken English

It would be a real bonus if you have

• Programming competences as well as PL/SQL and scripting languages are a plus
• Good knowledge and experience with DevOps/Automation is a plus
• Experience with Unix (mainly Linux) and related scripting languages is a plus
• Experience with GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Familiarity with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Exposure to ITIL or similar release/change management frameworks

Additional Information

We realize that managing work life balance is a challenge we all face in our daily lives and in order to support with this we are pleased to offer hybrid and flexible working for most of our Avaloqers to maintain work life balance and still continue our fantastic Avaloq culture in our global offices. 
In Avaloq we are proud to embrace diversity and understand the success of our business is built on the power of different opinions, we are whole heartedly committed to fostering an equal opportunity environment and inclusive culture where you can be your true authentic self. 
We hire, compensate and promote regardless of origin, age, gender identity, sexual orientation or any other fantastic traits that make us all unique, we have done our best to write this advert in an inclusive and neutral way. 
Please be aware that we will not accept speculative CV submissions for any of our roles from recruitment agencies, and any unsolicited candidate submissions will be exempt from any payment expectations.