The Opportunity
Join a forward-thinking organisation delivering large-scale digital transformation in the utilities sector. As the Release & Environment Lead, you’ll play a key role in ensuring the stability, quality, and coordination of enterprise systems that support critical customer and operational outcomes. This is an opportunity to make a lasting impact in a complex, multi-application environment, working with talented teams and vendor partners to enable smarter, more connected services for the community.
North Brisbane based opporunity, 1-2 days per week in the office.
The Role
As a
Release & Environment Lead, you will be responsible for maintaining the integrity of enterprise pre-production environments and overseeing coordinated releases across multiple projects and systems.
Your other responsibilities will include:
- Defining and maintaining the release and environment strategy, including configurations, access controls, and data refresh cycles.
- Coordinating release schedules and deployment activities across multiple delivery teams.
- Facilitating release readiness reviews, milestone tracking, and Go/No-Go approvals.
- Managing end-to-end release processes including version control, packaging, and deployment governance.
- Working closely with architecture, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure stable and consistent environments.
- Identifying risks, coordinating post-release reviews, and driving continuous improvement in release management practices.
About You
In order to be a successful applicant, you will bring experience leading release and environment functions across complex digital or enterprise systems.
You will also have:
- A tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related discipline.
- Extensive experience in software release management, DevOps, or IT delivery environments.
- Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle (Agile, Scrum, Waterfall).
- Proven ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and manage competing priorities.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI, Bamboo) and version control systems (Git, SVN).
Benefits
- Be part of a high-impact digital transformation program.
- Work with leading-edge technologies across public and private cloud environments.
- Collaborative and inclusive team culture.
- Flexible working arrangements and a supportive workplace.
Please note: We are receiving an extremely high volume of applications, please apply directly to the job advert and be patient while waiting for an update. Whilst we endeavour to respond to all enquiries, with current volumes it can be challenging - we're only human!
If you wish to apply via email please make sure you also apply directly - a lot of applications get phished, or sent to spam.
Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). helena.patterson@davidsonwp.com
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