Release Practitioner

Key Responsibilities:
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• Plan, coordinate, and manage releases across Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) training systems deployed within cloud-hosted, containerised environments.

• Manage release pipelines and deployment workflows supporting continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes.

• Coordinate releases across engineering, platform, and operations teams to ensure reliable deployment of containerised services and applications.

• Ensure all releases comply with ITIL release and deployment management governance, including change approval and release documentation.

• Oversee deployment activities to cloud platforms and container orchestration environments (e.g. Kubernetes/OpenShift).

• Maintain version control and release traceability for software, infrastructure configurations, and training system components.

• Work with configuration and change management teams to ensure releases align with approved changes and configuration baselines.

• Support automated build, test, and deployment pipelines to ensure repeatable and reliable releases.

• Coordinate release readiness activities including integration testing, system validation, and operational acceptance.

• Support in Configuration Management, working closely with the Configuration Practitioner.

• Conduct post-release reviews and implement improvements to release automation and deployment processes.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience managing problem management activities within complex IT or technical service environments.

• Experience managing software releases within CI/CD driven environments.

• Strong understanding of ITIL release and deployment management processes.

• Experience supporting containerised application deployments using orchestration platforms (e.g. Kubernetes or OpenShift).

• Working knowledge of CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Helm).

• Experience managing releases into cloud or hybrid environments (e.g. Azure, AWS).

• Understanding of container image management, versioning, and deployment strategies.

• Experience coordinating releases across engineering, DevOps, and platform teams.

• Strong organisational skills managing multiple releases across complex technical environments.

• ITIL certification (Foundation or higher).

Desirable Skills and Experience:

• Experience working within defence, government, or regulated service environments.

• Experience supporting CI/CD pipelines delivering containerised microservices into Kubernetes or Red Hat OpenShift environments.

• Experience supporting infrastructure-as-code or platform automation tools. xkybehq

• Experience supporting releases within modelling and simulation environments, particularly LVC training systems.