Head of Release and Deployment Management

- Full-time

Why are we here?

Eurofins Scientific is an international life sciences company, providing a unique range of analytical testing services to clients across multiple industries, to make life and our environment safer, healthier and more sustainable. From the food you eat, to the water you drink, to the medicines you rely on, Eurofins laboratories work with the biggest companies in the world to ensure the products they supply are safe, their ingredients are authentic, and labelling is accurate.

Eurofins is dedicated to delivering testing services that contribute to the health and safety of society and the planet, and to its corporate responsibility to protect the environment and ensure diversity, equity, and inclusion across the entire network of Eurofins companies.

All the business scopes, one of them being LATAM, are supported from the information security perspective in dual model: core services delivered from a central team and peripheral or local services under the local responsibility of the RISO (Regional Information Security Officer / and team). There is an agreed split of responsibility between the regional and group team and dotted line management ensures full alignment.

In a nutshell

As a Head of Release and Deployment Management, you will be accountable for the safe, predictable, and scalable delivery of changes across a growing portfolio of GSC IT Solutions. Your role will be key in governing the end-to-end Release lifecycle across more than 500 Production instances in target, ensuring that IT Applications, infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (IaC)



Releases reach Production securely and without disruption to Business Operations. Combining technical ownership, operational leadership, and cross-functional coordination, your role will be critical to service continuity, deployment quality, regulatory compliance, and the organisation ability to deliver change at scale.

Where will you be based and what business will you support?

Based in Madrid, Spain; you will join a globally distributed team in the Food and Environment Testing.

How can you help us?

You will work on the following areas:

Release & Deployment Execution, to:

- Execute and manage end-to-end deployments across non-production and production environments.
- Maintain and optimise deployment pipelines, technical configurations, and automation scripts.
- Actively troubleshooting deployment failures, analyse root causes, and have fixes tested and implemented.
- Ensure all Releases meet quality, security, and operational standards.

Technical Ownership, to:

- Own deployment tooling (CI/CD pipelines, Release orchestration tools).
- Raise new requirements to the Automation team, test and follow-up on their deliveries to ensure best-in-class tooling for the Release team.
- Ensure technical pre-requisites are implemented and validated before any Release deployment as per Release Notes.




- Optimise technical configurations maintenance and maintainability.
- Participate in incident resolution related to deployments and technical configuration.

Coordination & Governance, to:

- Coordinate Release schedules and dependencies across multiple teams.
- Ensure compliance with ITIL Change Management process.
- Drive clear communication between technical teams and business stakeholders.
- Anticipate and mitigate risks, unblock proactively challenging situations with Product teams or Business stakeholders.
- Identify and implement improvements in deployment processes, automation, and tooling.
- Improve cost efficiency of the team, looking at tooling performance, scalability and reliability.
- Contribute to standardisation across a large and growing IT Applications landscape.
- Promote DevOps best practices and automation-first mindset.
- Enhance and document Release & Deployment processes and evangelise Business representatives.

Are you our kind of extraordinary?

You have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or Information Management, or equivalent experience.
- 8-10 years of experience in Release engineering, deployment management, or DevOps-oriented roles
- Proven experience in hands-on deployment execution and troubleshooting.
- Strong practical knowledge in several of the following areas:
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform (or equivalent)
- ITSM Tools: ServiceNow, BMC Helix, Jira

You are:

- A doer, not only a coordinator.
- Able to diagnose issues quickly and fix them.
- Driven to automate, optimise, and scale.
- Organised, struc

📌 Head of Release and Deployment Management (Madrid)
🏢 Eurofins
📍 Madrid