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About Oivan and the Role

Oivan is seeking a DevSecOps Release Manager to join its team in Riyadh. This full-time role focuses on leading and governing the release lifecycle within a DevSecOps framework.

Role Purpose

The Release Manager acts as the central owner for release progress, ensuring that each release adheres to a controlled, evidence-based process. This includes clear checkpoints for quality, security, operational readiness, approval, and rollback, aiming for safer and faster releases with measurable engineering KPIs.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain and coordinate the end-to-end release calendar, scope, dependencies, priorities, and readiness tracking.
• Coordinate release activities across Product, Development, QA, Security, DevOps, Operations, and Support teams.
• Prepare and maintain release evidence packs, including test evidence, security scan results, operational readiness, approval status, known risks, dependencies, and rollback plans.
• Track completion of quality, security, artifact, and operational readiness gates before production release.
• Monitor exceptions, risks, open issues, and go/no-go readiness status.
• Track release quality checks such as code review, regression testing, UI checks, security scans, dependency checks, and operational readiness.
• Coordinate rollback and recovery preparation with relevant technical teams.
• Maintain the release dashboard and gap register.
• Track release KPIs such as deployment frequency, lead time, hotfix frequency, bug escape rate, MTTR, and gate compliance.
• Support continuous improvement in release predictability, quality, security, and operational readiness.

Success Metrics

• Improved release predictability and readiness.
• Reduction in production surprises and emergency fixes.
• Clear visibility of release decisions, risks, and escalations.
• Increased gate compliance across quality, security, and operations.
• Improved visibility through release dashboards and evidence packs.
• Reduced hotfix frequency and bug escape rate.
• Improved rollback and recovery readiness.

Required Experience

Candidates should possess 2-5 years of relevant experience in release management or a similar DevSecOps role.

Reporting Structure and Work Type

This is a full-time position based in Riyadh, reporting to the Service Delivery Manager or Account Leadership.