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NEXTON

Builds digital projects for large French firms

Release Manager

Full-Time
No salary listed
Senior, Expert
Île-de-France, France
In Person
DevOps & InfrastructureDevOps Engineering

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 to 10 years of experience in software release management and production environments.
  • Experience managing application delivery, DevOps governance, risks and increments, and change management.
  • Experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Docker, Kubernetes, and AWS.
  • Experience with Jira, Confluence, Teams, Miro, and ServiceNow or TopDesk.
  • Strong understanding of production concerns and Agile methodologies, including Scrum and SAFe.
  • Ability to communicate effectively, exercise diplomacy, manage stress, and resolve issues in real time.
  • Ability to understand application architectures and bring multidisciplinary teams together around demanding delivery objectives.
Responsibilities
  • Plan, coordinate, and track cross-team releases to meet milestones and ensure version consistency.
  • Define, automate, and continuously improve CI/CD delivery pipelines and deployment strategies, including Blue/Green, Canary, and Rolling updates.
  • Assess release impacts and risks, manage crisis communications, organize Go/No-Go committees, and analyze post-deployment incidents.
  • Collaborate with Development, Operations, QA, and Product teams to promote continuous delivery and reduce time to market.
  • Validate acceptance criteria, monitor the isolation of non-production environments, and ensure delivery compliance.

About the company

NEXTON plans and builds digital projects for large French companies and online businesses, combining digital strategy with software development and marketing. Its teams cover product management, user-experience design, agile delivery and data work, and build websites, mobile applications and customer communications. Clients pay for specialist consultants assigned to their teams or for projects delivered by NEXTON's own agency. The agency combines designers, developers and marketing specialists to handle projects from planning and interface design through development and delivery. Founded in Paris in 2011, NEXTON is headquartered there at 5-7 rue Saint-Fiacre and operates across France.

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Headquarters

Paris, France

Founded

2011

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What believers are saying

  • NEXTON recruits entirely on permanent employment contracts, providing a salaried path into client assignments.
  • NEXTON consultants joined client Veolia at Google's enterprise-AI event in March 2026, studying tools alongside customer teams.
  • NEXTON's client portfolio spans rail, telecom and insurance through SNCF, Orange and AXA.

What critics are saying

  • NEXTON's Montpellier Java role pairs new banking features with incident analysis and corrective maintenance, per October 2026 posting.
  • French demand exposure: Numeum reported 1.8% contraction for 2025 IT services in December 2025; NEXTON's six offices are French.
  • NEXTON's Paris customer marketing lead handles mobile campaigns and supervises an apprentice, per its October 2026 posting.

What makes NEXTON unique

  • NEXTON runs an in-house digital factory in rural Saint-Augustin, extending project delivery beyond metropolitan offices.
  • Figma lists NEXTON as a service partner for design-system implementation, migration and team training.
  • NEXTON's seven employee-run communities connect mentoring, software, design, AI/data, sustainability, agile product work and sport.

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Benefits

  • Commuter Benefits
  • Professional Development Budget