The Cutover Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, and executing all activities required to transition solutions, systems, or services into production. The role ensures a controlled and successful go-live with minimal business disruption, clear accountability, and effective risk management.
What you'll do:
- Develop and manage the Cutover Strategy, Plan, and Runbook.
- Coordinate cutover activities across business, application, infrastructure, DevOps, QA, operations, data, and vendor teams.
- Define readiness criteria and ensure all prerequisites are completed before go-live.
- Lead cutover planning, readiness reviews, and Go/No-Go decision meetings.
- Manage deployment, data migration, validation, and business verification activities.
- Identify and mitigate risks, issues, dependencies, and business impacts.
- Coordinate rollback, contingency, and recovery plans with technical teams.
- Monitor cutover execution, track progress, and escalate critical issues.
- Communicate status and outcomes to stakeholders throughout the cutover lifecycle.
- Support Hypercare/Early Life Support and conduct post-cutover reviews.
Who are you:
- Proven experience in Cutover Management, Release Management, or large-scale production deployments.
- Strong stakeholder management, planning, and coordination skills.
- Solid technical background with prior hands-on experience as a Software Developer, DevOps Engineer, SRE, Platform Engineer, or Infrastructure Engineer.
- Good understanding of CI/CD, cloud platforms, application deployments, integrations, and operational support.
Key Deliverables: Cutover Strategy, Cutover Plan/Runbook, Readiness Checklist, Go/No-Go Criteria, Communication Plan, Rollback Plan, Status Reports, and Post-Cutover Review.
We appreciate the interest of all applicants. Please note that only those whose qualifications align closely with the position requirements will be contacted for the next steps in the selection process.
All applications will be handled with confidentiality.
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