MuleSoft Release Manager

Overview

Akkodis is seeking a Mule Soft Release Manager for a Contract job with a client in Stamford, CT (Remote). The ideal candidate will lead and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle across multiple environments, ensuring high-quality, predictable, and well-coordinated releases.

Rate Range: $53/hour to $60/hour;
The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

• Plan, schedule, and coordinate software releases across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Own and maintain the enterprise release calendar, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
• Coordinate release activities with Dev Ops, Development, QA, Infrastructure, and Business stakeholders.
• Ensure all release artifacts—builds, deployment scripts, release notes, rollback plans—are validated and approved.
• Enforce organizational release governance, change-management processes, and compliance standards.
• Identify and mitigate release risks; manage cross-team dependencies and scheduling conflicts.
• Lead release readiness, planning, and playbook meetings; communicate release status clearly across teams.
• Support incident management activities related to releases and lead post-deployment troubleshooting.
• Drive continuous improvement of release processes, automation, tooling, and operational efficiency.
• Maintain runbooks, release procedures, deployment standards, and supporting documentation.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Release Management, Dev Ops, Software Delivery, or related IT functions.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, Agile/Scrum methodologies, and release governance frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, automation scripts, and orchestration tools.
• Proficiency with Git, Git Lab, and other source-control/release-management tools.
• Experience working with JIRA for release planning, workflow management, and tracking.
• Ability to coordinate releases across multiple teams and large enterprise applications.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills.
• Familiarity with automation (shell scripts, Python), API-led integration concepts, and production monitoring tools.
• Preferred:
  Experience working with Mule Soft, API-led connectivity (Experience/Process/System APIs), Postman, SOAPUI, or test automation tools.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact Shubh

Pay: $53.00 to $60.00 per hour

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled. Military connected talent encouraged to apply.

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