Environment and Release Manager

ASX Limited; Australia; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Flexible working arrangements

Employee benefits

Job summary

ASX Limited in Australia is seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead planning, scheduling, testing and deployment across environments for the CHESS project and beyond.

You will coordinate with Architecture, Information Security, Finance and Risk, manage interdependencies, drive improvements and maintain environment readiness from development to production.

The role supports hybrid working and offers a range of employee benefits as part of ASX's inclusive culture.

Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in planning, scheduling, testing and deploying software releases.
• Experience leading teams across CHESS or similar project portfolios.
• Knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Experience with environments from on-prem to cloud (AWS).
• Experience with SDLC, continuous delivery/CI/CD practices, version control and dependency management.
• Cross-functional agile delivery experience and stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Communicate release scope, schedules, status and risks.
• Plan and facilitate release and patching across environments.
• Manage interdependencies and ensure milestone adherence.
• Maintain environment consistency from testing to Production.
• Provide environment support and chair war rooms as needed.
• Conduct PIRs to address release quality issues.
• Define change control processes and readiness criteria.
• Drive continuous improvement in release and environment processes.
• Coordinate release packaging across the CHESS project.
• Communicate with vendors and internal teams for packaging.

Skills

Release management

Stakeholder management

CI/CD

AWS

Environment management

Agile delivery

Cross-functional leadership

Git versioning

Tools

CI/CD tools

Git

AWS

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

• Communicate the scope and purpose of releases, environment refreshes, release schedules, release status, and escalation of issues and risks, while ensuring that the quality and integrity of releases are maintained.
• Plan and facilitate release and patching activities across development and testing, ensuring quality and timely deployments across all environments.
• Assist in managing interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence, and ensure the integrity of releases, which can be measured.
• Maintain environment consistency for all components across the full environment lifecycle from testing, external testing and Production environments.
• Providing environment support across internal and external test environments including establishing and chairing war rooms with relevant support teams as required.
• Conducting PIRs post release to ensure release quality issues are identified, documented and addressed.
• Define and manage technical change control processes for release readiness criteria, including completing all implementation readiness artefacts and ensure all changes meet readiness criteria prior to deployment.
• Drive continuous improvement in the release and environment management processes.
• Coordination, release management and packaging across the CHESS project.
• Communication with vendors and internal delivery teams for the packaging of releases.

Must have

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in planning, scheduling, testing, deploying, maintaining and controlling software releases across environments.
• The ideal candidate will also have experience in managing others while co-ordinating Environment and Release Management activities across a portfolio within the CHESS team.
• Experience and knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Expertise should cover Environment and Release Management across a range of environments from legacy on-prem environments through to contemporary container-based Cloud workloads (AWS).
• Experience with the Software Development Lifecycle, continuous delivery/continuous integration (CI/CD) principals.
• Experience with software version control, branching strategy and dependency management.
• Help streamline the release strategy, building towards a defined release cadence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Architecture, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, QE&T.
• Build out comprehensive KPIs, metrics, and SLAs to measure, performance and success rates of Releases, Manage knowledgebase of standards, training material, etc.
• Identify opportunities for cloud efficiency enhancements across the organization.
• Experience in highly regulated financial 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 Release Engineering Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
• Understanding of cloud-native frameworks and landscapes.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace.

We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options.

Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements.

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.

ASX is an integrated exchange offering listings, trading, clearing, settlement, technical and information services, technology, data and other post-trade services. It acts as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia’s listed companies and helps to educate retail investors. ASX operates markets for a wide range of asset classes including equities, fixed income, commodities and energy. As an integrated exchange, ASX’s activities span primary and secondary market services, including the raising, allocation and hedging of capital flows; trading and price discovery; central counterparty risk transfer; and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets.

When you join ASX, you’ll be joining a dynamic global leader with a record of innovation and a reputation for integrity, transparency and professionalism. You’ll also enjoy an impressive range of employee benefits and a flexible working environment underpinned by a friendly and collaborative culture.