Software Release Manager

Alignment Health is breaking the mold in conventional health care, committed to serving seniors and those who need it most: the chronically ill and frail. It takes an entire team of passionate and caring people, united in our mission to put the senior first. We have built a team of talented and experienced people who are passionate about transforming the lives of the seniors we serve. In this fast-growing company, you will find ample room for growth and innovation alongside the Alignment Health community. Working at Alignment Health provides an opportunity to do work that really matters, not only changing lives but saving them. Together.

The Software Release Manager oversees Alignment’s end‑to‑end software application release lifecycle, ensuring predictable, high‑quality deployment of applications into Azure environments. This role owns the release lifecycle for all enterprise applications and collaborates with engineering, DevOps, QA, product, and security teams to maintain compliant, efficient, and reliable application release processes that support business and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Owns and leads the full software application release lifecycle, including planning, scheduling, coordination, deployment, and post‑release validation across multiple engineering teams.

• Drives release readiness and risk mitigation, facilitating testing sign‑off, approvals, rollback planning, and go/no‑go decisions.

• Collaborates with DevOps to enhance and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation to support secure, reliable, and scalable application deployments.

• Ensures compliance with HIPAA, SOC2, and internal control requirements by maintaining accurate release documentation and audit artifacts, and providing required materials to Compliance teams.

• Serves as the primary liaison for application release communication, delivering clear, timely updates on plans, risks, and outcomes to both technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

• Monitors deployment health and lead issue resolution during and after releases, partnering with engineering teams to support incident management and root‑cause analysis.

• Continuously improves application release processes, tooling, and metrics, identifying opportunities to increase reliability and reduce deployment risk.

Job Requirements:

Required Experience:

• 5+ years in software application release management, DevOps, or build/release engineering
• Experience with Azure, GitHub, .NET/C#, React
• Experience working in regulated industries.

Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Skills:

• CI/CD
• Application deployment
• DevOps collaboration
• Communication
• Problem-solving.

Preferred Qualifications:

Healthcare Industry experience

HIPAA/SOC2 familiarity

Infrastructure-as-Code or advanced DevOps tools

Experience with DORA metrics

Essential Physical Functions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee regularly is required to stand, walk, sit, use hand to finger, handle or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms.
• The employee frequently lifts and/or moves up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Pay Range: $113,332.00 - $169,999.00

Pay range may be based on a number of factors including market location, education, responsibilities, experience, etc.

Alignment Health is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, protected veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

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