Application Release Administrator

About the role

Bank of Baghdad is seeking an Application Release Administrator to join its IT team. You will coordinate, manage, and support application releases and deployments across multiple environments, ensuring safe and timely delivery in line with change management and IT governance standards.

Key responsibilities

• Plan, coordinate, and schedule application releases and deployments.
• Ensure releases comply with change management and IT governance standards.
• Collaborate with development, testing, and infrastructure teams to confirm release readiness.
• Execute and monitor deployments across different environments.
• Maintain release documentation, deployment records, and schedules.
• Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve release‑related issues, supporting rollback and recovery when needed.
• Continuously improve release management processes and deployment efficiency.

Required profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 2–3 years of experience in application deployment, release management, or IT operations.
• Good understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and change management processes.
• Knowledge of banking technology environments (core banking, payments, digital banking, etc.) is highly preferred.

Required skills

• Familiarity with release automation and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with version control systems.