Test and Environment Release Manager
Location: Sydney
Job Summary:
We are currently supporting a leading Financial Services organisation seeking an Test and Environment Release Manager to oversee the planning, coordination, and execution of environment provisioning and release management across multiple test and pre-production landscapes. You’ll ensure environments are stable, secure, and available for delivery teams, while managing release schedules, configuration governance, and environment integrity. A core part of this role is establishing and maintaining a governance framework for deployment and release management, as well as driving ongoing improvements across environment practices.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the full lifecycle of non-production environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging), including provisioning, configuration, refreshes, and monitoring.
- Plan and coordinate deployments of code, configuration, and infrastructure, ensuring quality gates, rollback strategies, and compliance are in place.
- Maintain environment schedules, configuration documentation, and communication on outages, changes, and release calendars.
- Act as the main point of contact for environment and release needs, balancing competing priorities and resolving conflicts across teams.
- Partner with internal teams and external vendors to ensure timely provisioning, maintenance, and release readiness.
- Conduct audits, reviews, and post-implementation assessments to improve processes and strengthen governance.
- Drive automation, standardisation, and best practice adoption across environment and release activities.
Skills & Experience:
- 5+ years’ experience in environment and release management within complex enterprise settings.
- Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and testing lifecycles.
- Experience across on-premises and cloud (AWS/Azure) environments.
- Skilled with tools such as Jenkins, Git, Jira, ServiceNow, and monitoring platforms.
- Strong vendor management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Knowledge of ITIL (Release, Change, Configuration Management).
- Desirable: ITIL v3/v4 certification, Agile/DevOps practices, regulated industry experience.
What’s on Offer:
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Exposure to enterprise-scale transformation projects.
- Flexible, collaborative working environment.
- Career development and continuous learning opportunities.
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