Environment and Delivery Manager, 12 MFTC

Environment and Delivery Manager, 12 MFTC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ASX is seeking an experienced Environment and Release Manager to own the end-to-end environment strategy for the ASX 24 project, coordinating testing environments and production-like environments across multiple workstreams.

You will lead release planning, governance, and risk management in a highly regulated financial technology setting, partnering with vendors, delivery teams and senior stakeholders to ensure smooth go-lives.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in Environment/Release/Program/Test Management.
• Experience across large-scale technology transformations.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles and release processes.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, vendors and delivery teams.
• Risk management and issue resolution capability.
• Excellent communication and planning skills.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling, release automation and environment orchestration.
• Experience in regulated financial environments including exchange technology.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end environment strategy for the ASX 24 project.
• Coordinate provisioning, availability, maintenance, and support of environments.
• Manage environment schedules and dependencies across workstreams.
• Ensure environments support testing milestones and readiness.
• Monitor environment health and escalate risks as required.
• Develop and maintain integrated release calendars with vendors and teams.
• Coordinate release planning, deployments, rollback procedures, and readiness reviews.
• Governance, approvals, and change processes for releases.
• Facilitate release rehearsals and implementation readiness activities.
• Ensure releases are controlled, auditable, and low-risk.
• Collaborate with Testing Lead to meet testing requirements and readiness.
• Coordinate customer access, onboarding, and testing support with stakeholders.
• Provide regular status reporting on readiness and progress.
• Lead go-live planning, cutover preparation, and governance.
• Contribute to contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies.
• Maintain environment and release governance artefacts.

Skills

Environment Management

Release Management

Program Delivery

Test Management

Communication

Stakeholder Management

Agile Delivery

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Release automation

Environment orchestration

Job description

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you’re joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all.

In your new role, you’ll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines.

We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance.

We’re proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we’re committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your responsibilities:

Environment Management

• Own the end-to-end environment strategy for the ASX 24 project.
• Coordinate provisioning, availability, maintenance, and support of test, integration, UAT, CDE, and production-like environments.
• Manage environment schedules, dependencies, and competing demands across multiple workstreams.
• Ensure environments are fit for purpose and available to support agreed testing milestones.
• Monitor environment health, stability, and readiness, escalating risks and issues as required.

Release Management

• Develop and maintain integrated release calendars across ASX, vendors, and internal technology teams.
• Coordinate release planning, deployment activities, rollback procedures, and production readiness reviews.
• Manage release governance, approvals, and change processes.
• Facilitate release rehearsals and implementation readiness activities.
• Ensure releases are executed in a controlled, auditable, and low-risk manner.

Testing Enablement

• Work closely with the Testing Lead and QA teams to ensure environments meet testing requirements.
• Coordinate environment readiness for End-to-End Testing, integration testing, and customer testing activities.
• Track environment-related defects, dependencies, and blockers.
• Support test execution planning and scheduling activities.

Customer & Stakeholder Coordination

• Act as the primary contact for environment and release matters across project teams and external participants.
• Coordinate customer access, environment onboarding, and testing support activities.
• Facilitate workshops and planning sessions involving technology, testing, operations, vendors, and customers.
• Provide regular status reporting on environment readiness and release progress.

Implementation Readiness

• Support Industry-Wide Testing (IWT) and implementation readiness activities.
• Lead deployment rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and operational readiness exercises.
• Coordinate go-live planning, cutover preparation, and implementation governance.
• Contribute to contingency planning and risk mitigation strategies.

Governance & Reporting

• Maintain environment and release governance artefacts.
• Produce regular reporting on risks, issues, dependencies, environment usage, and release status.
• Ensure adherence to ASX delivery, change management, and operational risk frameworks.

Your experience and qualifications

Must have:

• Minimum of 5+ years of experience in Environment Management, Release Management, Program Delivery, or Test Management roles.
• Experience managing complex environments across large-scale technology transformation programs.
• Strong understanding of software delivery lifecycles, testing phases, and release processes.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, vendors, and delivery teams.
• Demonstrated risk management and issue resolution capability.
• Excellent communication, planning, and organisational skills.
• Experience and knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Experience supporting large-scale customer testing or industry-wide testing programs.
• Knowledge of CI/CD tooling, release automation, and environment orchestration.
• Experience supporting major implementation or cutover events.
• Experience in highly regulated financial environments including clearing, trading, or exchange technology environments.
• Worked in a cross-functional, agile delivery team.
• Comfortable presenting at various forums and to senior stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration and leadership qualities.
• Strong sense of ownership, customer service and integrity demonstrated through clear communications.
• Passionate about Environment and Release Management.
• Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
  

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.