Release Management Intern

At Lyreco we all share a common goal to strive for passion, excellence, respect and agility. We are proud to be the European leader and the third largest distributor of workplace products and services in the world
We are committed to the development of our employees and we aim to achieve that by creating a culture that inspires and empowers.

Are you seeking a new challenge? This offer might be for you!

Lyreco is a worldwide distributor of workplace products, with its corporate headquarters in Valenciennes, North of France. Privately owned, the company was founded in 1926 by the Gaspard family. Lyreco is covering 25 countries with direct presence along with a further 17 countries supported by 15 Strategic Partners.  

We are looking for Release Management Intern in IT eCommerce Team. You will actively support Release Manager who is responsible for the process of managing, planning and scheduling the rollout of eCommerce platforms and releases of new functionalities to the production environment. Your role will be to support the Release Manager in the day-to-day operational work by collaborating with Dev and QA teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters & Business. 

If you are: 

• Excited about growing in IT department 

• Interested in combining soft and technical skills 

• Proactive and detailed oriented 

• Willing to learn 

This job offer is for you!  

Don’t worry if you've never had contact with Business and IT, we'll teach you everything!  

Here you will have a unique chance to learn by practice what the software development cycle is really about!  

We are looking for a long-term internship, ideally for a minimum of 6 months. 

Working schedule can be adapted accordingly with your student agenda.

Main Accountabilities 

Assist the Release Manager in the following areas 

• Sprint Life Cycle 

• Release Deployment Activities and Dependencies Management 

• Sprint / Release Technical activities 

• Risk / Issue Management 

• Support Sprint / Release Cycle key events 

• Production Release Gatekeeping (Quality) 

Additionally, you will collaborate on daily basis with the eCommerce IT Ops Team (Service Manager, SREs, Support Engineers). 

   Qualifications and Skills 

• Fluency in English written and spoken min. C1 (English is official Business language) 

• Basic knowledge about Scrum, Agile and IT technologies in general 

• Detail-oriented and well-organized approach 

• Proactive personality 

• Self-starter and keen to always learn new things 

• Self-motivated with willingness to raise ideas and take initiatives 

• Familiarity with ITIL framework and Jira & Confluence tools will be a plus