Environment & Release Lead Hybrid

Environment & Release Lead Hybrid; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Super Retail Group is establishing a new enterprise-wide Environment & Release Enablement capability and seeks an experienced leader to design, implement and mature this function across our technology landscape. Based in Brisbane (Strathpine) or Sydney (Rhodes), with a hybrid model requiring onsite collaboration.

You will define standards, processes and governance, orchestrate cross-domain delivery, manage release readiness, automated environments and CI/CD integration, and partner with

Job description

Super Retail Group is the proud owner of four iconic brands: Supercheap Auto, rebel, BCF and Macpac, and is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest retailers. The talent of our teams and their passion for providing an experience which inspires and enhances our customers’ leisure time drives our culture of innovation and opportunity.

About the Role

At Super Retail Group, our purpose is to inspire and equip everyone to live their passion every day.We're establishing a new enterprise-wide Environment & Release Enablement capability and are seeking an experienced leader to design, implement and mature this function across our technology landscape.

As a key member of the Enterprise Testing, Environments & Release Enablement leadership team,this role will build andlead an enterprise-wide environment management and release enablement function,supporting a diverse portfolio of technology platforms operating across varying levels of delivery, testing and release maturity.

This leadership role will establish standards, processes, tooling, and governance while, orchestrating cross-domain delivery, resolving complex dependencies, and implementing an effective federated release train model. Partnering closely with technology and business stakeholders,responsibilities will include:

• Test Environment Strategy and Governance: Define and govern enterprise test environment strategies that maximise environment availability, minimise delivery disruption and enable efficient portfolio execution. Oversee environment demand planning, test data refresh cycles and environment contention management across delivery portfolios.
• Enterprise Release Governance & Orchestration: Establish and lead an enterprise release governance and orchestration framework that drives release quality, transparency and predictability through defined standards, release readiness controls, dependency management and stakeholder communications.
• Test Environment Health and Usage: Drive proactive environment health monitoring and continuous improvement, partnering with testing and engineering teams to implement automated shakedown testing, environment observability and service readiness capabilities.
• Automation of test environments and CI/CD Enablement: Drive the adoption of Infrastructure as Code, automated environment provisioning and test data automation to enable seamless integration with CI/CD pipelines and support continuous testing practices.
• Reporting, Metrics & Value Realisation: Define and maintain meaningful environment and release performance metrics that provide visibility of operational health, identify improvement opportunities and demonstrate business value.

Enjoy the flexibility of being based in either Brisbane (Strathpine) or Sydney (Rhodes), with a hybrid work model that combines collaboration onsite at least three days per week.

About you

You are an experienced technology leader with a strong understanding of environment management, release management, DevOps practices and enterprise delivery. Whether your background is in testing, engineering, platform operations or release management, you have a track record of building capability, driving uplift and leading change.

You thrive in complex environments, influencing stakeholders across technology and business teams while balancing governance, risk and delivery outcomes. Passionate about continuous improvement, automation and AI-enabled ways of working, you are excited by the opportunity to build and mature a modern Environment & Release Enablement practice.

About us

• You’ll get to join an organisation with a culture that is driven by innovation and creating awesome experiences for our customers and teams, and will get to work alongside a diverse team across Super Retail Group, that is representative of the communities we work in.
• Super Retail Group is a Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA) Employer of Choice for Gender Equality citation holder.
• We are committed to your professional development and will support on-going opportunities for both learning and progression.
• You will get access to generous discounts across all Super Retail Group brands, as well as access to our Perks Programme, including discounts on Health and Wellbeing, Entertainment, Travel and Accommodation and more.

Our Culture of Inclusion

Super Retail Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.We support, promote and celebrate diversity and we recognise the benefits a culture of inclusion brings to our workplace and customer experience.