Software Release Management Lead

  

This role has been designed as ‘Hybrid’ with an expectation that you will work on average 2 days per week from an HPE office.

Who We Are:

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is the global edge-to-cloud company advancing the way people live and work. We help companies connect, protect, analyze, and act on their data and applications wherever they live, from edge to cloud, so they can turn insights into outcomes at the speed required to thrive in today’s complex world. Our culture thrives on finding new and better ways to accelerate what’s next. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good. If you are looking to stretch and grow your career our culture will embrace you. Open up opportunities with HPE.

Job Description:

   

Join our team as a Release Management Lead, where you'll play a pivotal role in orchestrating the software release process for HPE Networking's SSR network product. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate across multiple technical teams, streamline automation workflows, and ensure seamless product delivery. If you thrive in a dynamic, hybrid environment and enjoy coordinating complex release cycles, we invite you to help shape the future of our innovative networking solutions.

What you’ll do

Own the release lifecycle for multiple products/services: planning, readiness reviews, coordinated cutovers, verification, and post-release learning.Run the release calendar and program cadences; align with other teams and organizations on scope, dates, and risk.Operate & improve CI/CD promotion flows (Dev → Test/UAT → Prod), enforcing approvals, gates, and progressive delivery.Execute and track release path work, validate entrance/exit criteria, triage blockers, and escalate with clear owners/ETAs.Maintain change records & evidence in Jira/Confluence for full traceability of features, tests, approvals, and outcomes.Manage incidents & rollbacks: publish playbooks, run go/no-go, coordinate cutbacks, lead post-mortems, and drive corrective actions with SRE.Publish stakeholder comms and release notes (internal/external), coordinate freeze windows, and communicate customer impact and maintenance windows.Drive continuous improvement against DORA “Four Keys” (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR); maintain dashboards and quarterly goals.Strengthen compliance & audit-readiness: ensure separation of duties, documented approvals, artifact provenance (SBOM/signing/checksums), and evidence trails.Coordinate hotfix/patch trains: severity-based gating, rapid restore paths, and back-port strategy.Managing merge train: providing support to the life cycle of the branches and merges of our software products.

What you bring

5–8+ years in Release Management/DevOps/SDLC ownership in SaaS, networking, or platform teams.Hands-on with Git & CI/CD (Jenkins/GitHub), artifact management, and environment promotion workflows.Cloud-native fundamentals: dockers; familiarity with cloud (AWS/Azure); scripting (Python/Bash) for automation.Operational judgment: crisp communications under time pressure, data-driven go/no-go decisions, and the ability to influence without authority.Working software knowledge: Groovy & Python to create automation and CI/CD functions, and Tableau & Snowflake to review and retrieve results.

Nice to have

Experience in enterprise networking domains (campus/SD-WAN/data center), AIOps/observability, or HPE Juniper portfolio (Mist, Apstra, etc.).Exposure to progressive delivery & flags, infra-as-code (Terraform/Helm), and observability stacks (e.g., Grafana, Kibana/ELK).Familiarity with: Kubernetes.

How we’ll measure success

DORA metrics trending positively (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR).On-time, audit-ready releases with complete evidence and low incident/regression rates.Quarterly improvements in release predictability, automation coverage, and mean time to rollback.

Work location & schedule

Westford, MA, hybrid in office policies; occasional off-hours coverage

Additional Skills:

Cloud Architectures, Cross Domain Knowledge, Design Thinking, Development Fundamentals, DevOps, Distributed Computing, Microservices Fluency, Full Stack Development, Security-First Mindset, Solutions Design, Testing & Automation, User Experience (UX)

What We Can Offer You:

Health & Wellbeing

We strive to provide our team members and their loved ones with a comprehensive suite of benefits that supports their physical, financial and emotional wellbeing.

Personal & Professional Development

We also invest in your career because the better you are, the better we all are. We have specific programs catered to helping you reach any career goals you have — whether you want to become a knowledge expert in your field or apply your skills to another division.

Unconditional Inclusion

We are unconditionally inclusive in the way we work and celebrate individual uniqueness. We know varied backgrounds are valued and succeed here. We have the flexibility to manage our work and personal needs. We make bold moves, together, and are a force for good.

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Job:

Engineering

Job Level:

TCP_04

    

States with Pay Range Requirement

The expected salary/wage range for a U.S.-based hire filling this position is provided below. Actual offer may vary from this range based upon geographic location, work experience, education/training, and/or skill level. If this is a sales role, then the listed salary range reflects combined base salary and target-level sales compensation pay. If this is a non-sales role, then the listed salary range reflects base salary only. Variable incentives may also be offered. Information about employee benefits offered can be found at https://myhperewards.com/main/new-hire-enrollment.html.

USD Annual Salary: $117,500.00 - $270,000.00

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