Release Manager

About the role

Sliema Tech Labs Ltd is a growing Malta-headquartered software engineering company serving clients in iGaming, fintech and enterprise services. We combine a compact local engineering team with remote colleagues across the EU and pride ourselves on pragmatic processes, automation-first thinking and a strong focus on service reliability.

As Release Manager you will lead the end-to-end release lifecycle: schedule and coordinate deployments, enforce quality gates, automate repetitive tasks and partner closely with engineering, QA, product and operations. You will be the single point of accountability for release readiness, risk assessments and rollback plans, ensuring predictable, low-risk delivery to production.

The role sits within the engineering leadership team and is ideal for someone who enjoys process ownership, hands-on CI/CD automation and stakeholder communication. We offer a hybrid working model (2–3 days in our Sliema office / Msida hub), a supportive engineering culture and exposure to international clients — a strong opportunity to shape release practices in a compact, highly collaborative environment.

If you have a proven track record managing releases in cloud-native environments and enjoy translating technical detail into clear plans for multiple teams, this role offers clear progression into platform leadership and scope to influence tooling and operational standards across the business.

About Sliema Tech Labs Ltd

Sliema Tech Labs Ltd is a Maltese software firm specialising in cloud-native platforms and integrations for iGaming and fintech clients. The company operates a compact engineering team based between Sliema and Msida, serving regional and international customers with a focus on automation and reliability.

What you can expect

• Competitive salary band for Malta senior roles
• Hybrid working with modern office near the Sliema seafront
• Training budget and certification support
• Opportunity to shape release strategy and tooling across the company

Key responsibilities

• Own and coordinate the end-to-end release lifecycle across multiple products and environments (staging, pre-prod, production).
• Define and enforce release gates, checklists and rollback procedures to reduce deployment risk.
• Manage release schedules, communicate timelines and changes to engineering, product and support stakeholders.
• Drive CI/CD pipeline improvements using tools such as GitLab CI, GitHub Actions or Jenkins and automate repetitive deployment tasks.
• Work closely with SRE/operations to ensure infrastructure changes are included in release planning and monitoring is in place.
• Perform release risk assessments and approve go/no-go decisions for production deployments.
• Create and maintain release notes, deployment runbooks and post-release reports including incident learnings.
• Participate in on-call rotation for production releases and support major incident remediation and post-mortems.

Requirements

• Minimum 3–5 years' experience in release management, release engineering or DevOps/SRE roles.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g. GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins) and experience automating pipelines.
• Practical knowledge of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with scripting languages (Bash, Python or similar) and infrastructure-as-code tools is expected.
• Solid understanding of Agile software development and working with cross-functional product teams.
• Experience with monitoring and incident management processes (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, PagerDuty) is required.
• Strong stakeholder and project coordination skills with excellent written and spoken English.
• Right to work in Malta (EU citizens or valid Maltese work permit) or ability to secure appropriate permission.

How to apply

Apply via the job page https://fnkt.com/jobs/release-manager-software/ with your CV and a brief cover note, or send your CV and availability to the fallback contact below.