Build and Release Manager

Company Overview

Schneider Electric is a global leader in energy management and automation, delivering innovative solutions that ensure Life Is On for everyone, everywhere, at every moment.

We are expanding our technology capabilities in Gurugram and seeking an experienced Build & Release Manager to strengthen our release governance and CI/CD engineering practices within our Agile/SAFe-aligned delivery organization.

Role Overview

The Build & Release Manager owns the end-to-end build, packaging, and deployment lifecycle across multiple environments and applications.

This role ensures predictable, repeatable, secure, and high quality releases at scale.

The ideal candidate brings deep CI/CD expertise, strong release governance in enterprise environments, and the ability to influence cross functional teams to continuously improve delivery efficiency and reliability.

Key Responsibilities

Release Governance & Orchestration


* Develop and maintain a consolidated release calendar aligned with product/application owners, business blackout periods, and critical timelines.



* Lead release orchestration across multiple teams, including readiness reviews, risk & dependency tracking.



* Integrate with ITSM/Change Management processes to ensure compliant, auditable releases with all approvals and evidence in place.



* Establish and maintain communication plans, release notes, and change logs; ensure stakeholder visibility throughout the lifecycle.



* Conduct post release smoke tests and reviews (retrospectives) and drive actionable improvements across teams.



* Monitor and present release performance metrics to leadership for data driven decisions.



* Manage hot-fix release in the field

Build, CI/CD & Deployment Ownership


* Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps / Jenkins / GitLab CI / Bamboo) for Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, and Production.



* Ensure high availability and resilience of build pipelines; implement appropriate branching, tagging, versioning, and packaging strategies.



* Create and maintain automated build/deploy scripts, including rollback and recovery procedures.



* Troubleshoot build and deployment failures; lead cross functional resolution with development, QA, and infrastructure teams.

Environment & Configuration Management


* Coordinate with QA teams for test data management where applicable



* Own environment setup, baseline configuration, access orchestration, and alignment across the delivery chain.



* Maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates (e.g., Terraform) and ensure environment parity.



* Oversee post release environment stability monitoring and capacity/refresh planning

Quality, Security & Compliance


* Embed automated quality gates (unit tests, code coverage, SonarQube) in the build process.



* Integrate security scanning into pipelines (SAST/DAST, dependency and container scans) and coordinate with Cybersecurity and R&D team fo...