Deployment Lead: CI/CD & Release Orchestration

the original; Parramatta; Hybrid; AUD 154,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible, autonomous work environment

Career development & training

Competitive pay & conditions

Health & Wellbeing programs

Job summary

Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) in Parramatta, NSW, is seeking a Deployment Lead to oversee deployment and environment management across complex digital initiatives. The role coordinates changes through development, test, staging and production, ensuring readiness, risk control and service continuity.

You will lead integrated release calendars, cutover sequencing and rollback planning while working with suppliers and delivery teams in a 50% hybrid setup.

Qualifications

• Experience with release management, CI/CD and DevSecOps practices.
• Ability to manage multi-supplier deployments and assess acceptance.
• Experience coordinating high-pressure deployments and ensuring readiness.

Responsibilities

• Establish deployment and environment management standards and controls.
• Lead release calendars, deployment plans, cutover sequencing, and rollback arrangements.
• Coordinate environment capacity, configuration, access, data refresh and readiness across teams.
• Apply deployment and service acceptance gates with testing, security and ops evidence.
• Direct high-risk deployments, provide go/no-go readiness advice.
• Improve automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, monitoring and release reliability.
• Manage delivery partners and uplift deployment practice through coaching.

Skills

Release management

CI/CD

DevSecOps

Configuration management

Rollback

Stakeholder management

Education

Tertiary qualifications in IT/computer science/engineering/business or equivalent

Tools

Salesforce

Cloud services

Job description

Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) in Parramatta, NSW, is seeking a Deployment Lead to oversee deployment and environment management across complex digital initiatives. The role coordinates changes through development, test, staging and production, ensuring readiness, risk control and service continuity.

You will lead integrated release calendars, cutover sequencing and rollback planning while working with suppliers and delivery teams in a 50% hybrid setup.