Release Manager - French Services

Position Title:

Release Manager (French Services) (Telework/Hybrid)

Status of Employment:

Contractee Long-Term (Durée déterminée)

Position Language Requirement:

English, French

Language Skills:

English (Reading), English (Speaking), English (Writing), French (Reading), French (Speaking), French (Writing)

Work at CBC/Radio-Canada

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we create content that informs, entertains and connects Canadians on multiple platforms. Our successes and accomplishments are driven by embodying and upholding values, which include creativity, integrity, inclusiveness and relevance. 
 
Do you think you have the ability and drive to keep up with this exciting, ever-changing industry? Whether it be in front of the camera, on air, online or behind the scenes, you would be joining a team that thrives on making connections and telling stories that are important to Canadians.

Unposting Date:

2026-11-11 11:59 PM

At CBC/Radio-Canada, we all have a story to tell. What's yours?

If you share our passion for Canadian storytelling and you wish to help us engage with individuals and communities across our various digital platforms, this is where you’ll want to be!

Every day, you will have an opportunity to shape the way in which Canadians see themselves reflected in our digital services. Your work will have a direct impact on how millions of Canadians from various communities connect with our products, with one another, and with the diverse voices that make our country so unique.

You will have the opportunity to play a part in enlightening and entertaining Canadians through our innovative work in building the mediums that deliver our content. We are an innovative hub, where the talented professionals we work with are respected and valued for their contributions.

Our product teams are vibrant and our work culture strives to achieve the highest standards of diversity and inclusion. We believe that hiring people with different career paths and backgrounds is fundamental in our shared success and in building healthy and highly performant teams. When you join our mission, you are not only shaping the vision of the CBC, but the future of our country.

There is an opportunity for this to be a full-time teleworking position. Work arrangements will be discussed with hiring managers per departmental guidelines.

Why This Role Is Important

As a key member of our OTT team, you will work closely with product managers, architects and technical leads. Your primary focus will be to drive seamless product development within your domain and co-ordinate the technical initiatives required to deliver new features. You will ensure that all deliverables align with the guidelines, standards and practices established by the development leadership team.

This department manages the unified product architecture that powers both ICI TOU.TV and CBC Gem.

Benefits you can expect:

• Flexible work schedule prioritizing you, your family, and your work.
• Possibility of working from home.
• Competitive total compensation.
• Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
• Continuous learning and professional development opportunities.
• Opportunity to be part of our affinity groups.
• Buddy program and mentoring opportunities, allowing you to learn from the best in the industry.
• Creative and dynamic work environment where your ideas and contributions are heard, valued, and respected.
• A supportive leadership team committed to upholding the highest standards of diversity and inclusion.
• An environment that encourages experimentation and an iterative approach to achieve the most advanced forms of technical innovation.

Key Responsibilities

• Consolidate and coordinate deliverables across five distinct teams and more than five platforms to define and document the scope of our recurring Agile release trains.
• Coordinate go-live operations and post-launch monitoring alongside platform developers on a rotational basis.
• Partner with the QA Lead to co-ordinate pre- and post-deployment testing cycles.
• Define, document and track performance indicators for our deployment workflows.
• Propose and lead initiatives that accelerate and optimize our deployment workflows.
• Plan, coordinate and document mandatory updates across all application platforms.
• Plan, coordinate and document the use of feature flags in close collaboration with product managers.
• Collaborate with the Technical Lead and Enterprise Architect to define and track Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) objectives.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for SRE practices, working closely with the Cross-Functional SRE Lead to keep internal expertise up to date and relevant.
• Foster and lead an SRE community of practice within the OTT team, encouraging team members’ active participation and engagement in community activities.
• Maintain inventories and documentation for various dashboards.
• Build strong, high-level collaborative relationships with external SRE teams through cross-functional dashboard integration.
• Ensure the reliability and continuous improvement of CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.
• Maximize uptime and maintain up-to-date development and integration environments, particularly for automated testing.
• Document the use and manage the inventory of development and integration environments.

What You Bring

• University degree or equivalent experience.
• Five to seven years’ IT experience (as a developer, QA engineer, etc.).
• Hands-on experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) tools.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Bash or Python.
• Knowledge of other programming languages an asset.
• Good general knowledge and a high degree of intellectual curiosity (acquiring and developing new skills and knowledge).
• A critical mind (challenging the status quo and voicing new ideas).
• Keen interest in major trends and challenges within the digital landscape.
• Thoroughness, self-reliance and resourcefulness.
• Excellent stress management and prioritization skills.
• Strong analytical and conceptual thinking.
• Flexibility, initiative and drive.
• Ability to work well in a team and communicate effectively.
• Fluency in French.
• Professional working proficiency in spoken and written English required.

Given the scope and responsibilities of this role, you will operate in a bilingual environment where daily work is conducted in both official languages (English and French). The successful candidate will adapt smoothly and collaboratively to thrive in and support this multilingual workplace.

Please note that this is a 12-month contract position. At CBC/Radio-Canada, contract roles function similarly to regular full-time positions, offering the possibility of renewal based on performance and skill demonstration.

Curious to know more about Radio-Canada Digital Media? Visit our website at https://ici.radio-canada.ca/medias-numeriques/ .

Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.
 

We thank all applicants for their interest, but only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

As part of our recruitment process, candidates who advance to the next

step will be asked to complete a background check. This includes:  

• A mandatory Criminal record check. 

• Other background checks may be conducted based on the operational requirements of the position.

CBC/Radio-Canada is committed to being a leader in reflecting our country’s diversity. That’s because we can only create and tell the stories that connect Canadians, by having a workforce that mirrors the ever-changing makeup of our country. That’s why we, as an employer, value equal opportunity and nurture an inclusive workplace where our individual differences are not only recognized and valued, but also extend to and pervade all the services we provide as Canada’s public broadcaster. For more information, visit the Diversity and Inclusion section of our website. If you have accommodation needs at this stage of the recruitment process, please inform us as soon as possible by sending an e-mail to [email protected].
 
You are invited to consult and familiarize yourself with our Code of Conduct, which can be found on our corporate website. All employees must adhere to the Code as a condition of employment. We also invite you to take a look at our policy on conflicts of interest. In the event that you become an employee, it will be important to inform us, as quickly as possible, of any situation that, because of your hiring, constitutes or could appear to constitute a conflict of interest.

Primary Location:

1000, Rue Papineau, Montreal, Quebec, H2K 0C2

Number of Openings:

1

Work Schedule:

Full time