Compunnel Inc.
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Base pay range
$60.00/hr - $67.00/hr Job Title -
Infrastructure Release Analyst (W2 ONLY) Job Location -
Taylor, Texas, USA, 76574 Please share your resume at
jaswinder.kaur@compunnel.com USC/GC/EAD only / Residing in US Job Description
Responsibilities: Provides support, oversight, administration, and facilitation of changes that affect facilities, infrastructure, hardware, operating systems, database platforms, firmware, network, and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations. Ensure audit tracking, reliability, availability, correct functionality, system integrity, and risk mitigation in IT Service Delivery model by coordinating, communicating, and recording changes to non-development environments. Release Planning & Coordination
Organize and lead effective release planning meetings, ensuring cross-functional alignment across application, infrastructure, and cloud teams. Define and maintain a structured release calendar for applications and infrastructure, including OS patching, cloud deployments, middleware upgrades, and security updates. Establish a consistent and predictable release cadence across IT applications, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components. Release Execution & Governance
Manage end-to-end infrastructure/application release cycles, coordinating on-premises and/or cloud environments to minimize disruptions. Ensure adherence to enterprise IT policies and security standards while executing application and infrastructure releases. Track release deliverables, security compliance checks, and functional/security test approvals, ensuring production readiness. Monitor infrastructure changes, including system upgrades, network modifications, storage enhancements, and patching cycles. Provide oversight for OS patching, covering major and minor updates for Windows, Linux along with firmware updates for storage and network CIs and other enterprise systems. Oversee cloud infrastructure deployments - Azure, ensuring successful configuration and validation. Collaborate with DevOps and IT System Reliability teams to integrate automated release pipelines, CI/CD best practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies. Utilize IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning and release management. Security & Compliance
Ensure infrastructure releases comply with security policies and CIP regulatory requirements. Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
Track and report key release performance metrics, including patch deployment success rates, release cycle efficiency, system downtime, and rollback trends. Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reviews for failed or delayed releases, driving process improvements. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
Act as a liaison between development, operations, cloud, and security teams to optimize infrastructure release management. Provide support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB), ensuring infrastructure changes are properly assessed and documented. Manage cross-functional dependencies for application and infrastructure releases, maintaining up-to-date documentation. Jira/ServiceNow & ITSM Integration
Utilize Jira/ServiceNow to manage release workflows, change approvals, and infrastructure deployment tracking. Support ITSM processes, including Change, Release, Incident, and Problem Management. Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Contract Job function
Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution
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$60.00/hr - $67.00/hr Job Title -
Infrastructure Release Analyst (W2 ONLY) Job Location -
Taylor, Texas, USA, 76574 Please share your resume at
jaswinder.kaur@compunnel.com USC/GC/EAD only / Residing in US Job Description
Responsibilities: Provides support, oversight, administration, and facilitation of changes that affect facilities, infrastructure, hardware, operating systems, database platforms, firmware, network, and software environments for 24/7 IT Operations. Ensure audit tracking, reliability, availability, correct functionality, system integrity, and risk mitigation in IT Service Delivery model by coordinating, communicating, and recording changes to non-development environments. Release Planning & Coordination
Organize and lead effective release planning meetings, ensuring cross-functional alignment across application, infrastructure, and cloud teams. Define and maintain a structured release calendar for applications and infrastructure, including OS patching, cloud deployments, middleware upgrades, and security updates. Establish a consistent and predictable release cadence across IT applications, cloud platforms, and infrastructure components. Release Execution & Governance
Manage end-to-end infrastructure/application release cycles, coordinating on-premises and/or cloud environments to minimize disruptions. Ensure adherence to enterprise IT policies and security standards while executing application and infrastructure releases. Track release deliverables, security compliance checks, and functional/security test approvals, ensuring production readiness. Monitor infrastructure changes, including system upgrades, network modifications, storage enhancements, and patching cycles. Provide oversight for OS patching, covering major and minor updates for Windows, Linux along with firmware updates for storage and network CIs and other enterprise systems. Oversee cloud infrastructure deployments - Azure, ensuring successful configuration and validation. Collaborate with DevOps and IT System Reliability teams to integrate automated release pipelines, CI/CD best practices, and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) methodologies. Utilize IT automation tools (Ansible, Terraform) for infrastructure provisioning and release management. Security & Compliance
Ensure infrastructure releases comply with security policies and CIP regulatory requirements. Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement
Track and report key release performance metrics, including patch deployment success rates, release cycle efficiency, system downtime, and rollback trends. Facilitate root cause analysis (RCA) and post-mortem reviews for failed or delayed releases, driving process improvements. Collaboration & Stakeholder Management
Act as a liaison between development, operations, cloud, and security teams to optimize infrastructure release management. Provide support to the Change Advisory Board (CAB), ensuring infrastructure changes are properly assessed and documented. Manage cross-functional dependencies for application and infrastructure releases, maintaining up-to-date documentation. Jira/ServiceNow & ITSM Integration
Utilize Jira/ServiceNow to manage release workflows, change approvals, and infrastructure deployment tracking. Support ITSM processes, including Change, Release, Incident, and Problem Management. Seniority level
Mid-Senior level Employment type
Contract Job function
Electric Power Transmission, Control, and Distribution
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