Title: Release Manager
Location: Chicago, IL Hybrid Anchor Days: Monday - Thursday (pick 3 days)
Duration: 2 months with possibility of extension
Role Overview:
- The client is seeking an experienced Release Manager to support the delivery of strategic cybersecurity remediation initiatives, including network segmentation security controls.
- The Release Manager will be accountable for planning, coordinating, and governing releases across multiple workstreams to ensure changes are introduced into production in a predictable, secure, and compliant manner.
- This role operates within a heavily regulated financial services environment and requires close alignment with Security Engineering and Program Delivery functions.
Key Responsibilities:
Release Planning & Coordination
- Define, maintain, and execute integrated release plans across multiple cybersecurity workstreams and delivery teams.
- Coordinate release activities spanning planning, build, test, validation, and deployment phases.
- Ensure releases are aligned with program milestones, regulatory commitments, and dependency constraints.
- Manage release calendars and resolve conflicts across parallel initiatives and shared environments.
Change & Risk Management
- Partner with technology Change Management teams to ensure all releases comply with internal change control, approval, and audit requirements.
- Identify, assess, and manage release-related risks, including environment readiness, dependency misalignment, and rollback considerations.
- Ensure release artefacts (release notes, deployment plans, back?out procedures) are complete, accurate, and audit-ready.
- Support governance routines by providing clear visibility into upcoming releases, risks, and go/no?go decisions.
Cross-Functional Execution:
- Act as a central coordination point between Security Engineers, Infrastructure & app teams, and project resources.
- Support planning and execution for complex infrastructure and security-related changes.
- Coordinate testing and validation activities to ensure solutions meet security, operational, and regulatory expectations before release.
- Manage communications to stakeholders before, during, and after releases to ensure transparency and alignment.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:
- Proven experience delivering infrastructure, security, or regulatory remediation initiatives in Financial Services or similarly regulated environments.
- Strong understanding of change management, release governance, and risk controls.
- Experience coordinating releases across multiple teams, vendors, and time zones.
- Excellent organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent releases without loss of control or visibility.
- Strong communication skills, able to explain complex release risks and decisions to technical and non?technical stakeholders.
Tools & Technology Experience:
- Experience with release and change tracking tools such as ServiceNow, Azure DevOps (ADO), JIRA, or equivalent platforms.
- Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and how they apply in controlled enterprise environments.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office 365 and MS Teams for coordination and reporting.
Experience supporting releases involving network, firewall, identity, or cloud security components is strongly preferred
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Spectraforce Technologies
Oct 14, 2026