Technical Release Manager

The role

The Technical Release Manager owns the end-to-end execution of releases. This person ensures releases are prepared, executed, validated, and closed across engineering, product, and delivery teams.

What you will do

• Implement the release process and work with release representatives
• Coordinate end-to-end release execution across engineering, product management and delivery and support teams
• Prepare and track release content, configurations, and dependencies
• Execute and support releases, including hands-on post-deployment validation and sanity checks
• Validate release content, configurations, feature flags, and release-specific settings
• Act as the primary operational point of contact during release windows
• Identify, communicate, and escalate execution risks and blockers
• Ensure release outcomes and follow-ups are clearly documented
• Act as gatekeeper together with QA Manager to ensure quality targets are met
• Own the feedback loop through the whole release process to the delivery team and product development organization

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in one of the following roles: Release Manager, DevOps Engineer, Software Developer, or Technical Project Manager
• Direct experience executing releases in a CI/CD-driven environment
• Hands-on experience running, monitoring, and troubleshooting releases using GitHub Actions
• Ability to interpret pipeline stages, logs, failures, and test signals
• Experience triggering, re-running, rolling back, and validating pipeline executions
• Working knowledge of Python or scripting to support release execution and operational automation
• Experience running release syncs, tracking readiness, and managing cross-team dependencies
• Ownership of release communications and internal release notes
• Comfortable making and coordinating go / no-go decisions within defined criteria

Benefits

• Continuous professional development
• Training opportunities

Before you apply

• Employment is subject to applicable security screening (incl. SUPO)
• Hiring Manager Interview
• Technical Task
• Technical Discussion
• Stakeholder Interview

About the company

ICEYE delivers space-based intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities to governments and allied nations. The company is headquartered in Finland and operates globally.