Backport 'Move up release-environments stage in CI' to 17-11-stable-ee
What does this MR do and why?
Backport Move up release-environments stage in CI (!193931 - merged) to 17-11-stable-ee
stable branch
This change makes the start-release-environments-security-pipeline
bridge job run in parallel as the rest of the stable branch pipeline, therefore increasing its efficiency and decreasing its runtime.
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job has either succeeded or been approved by a Software Engineer in Test.
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