Environment & Release Manager – Hybrid

ASX Operations Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Flexible working arrangements

Job summary

ASX Group in Australia is seeking an experienced Environment and Release Manager to own end-to-end environment strategy for large-scale technology programs. You will coordinate provisioning, testing environments, release planning, governance, and stakeholder engagement across internal teams and vendors, ensuring go-live readiness.

This role also requires strong collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams and adherence to regulatory and risk frameworks, with a hybrid working setup in place.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Skills

Environment Management

Release Management

Program Delivery

Test Management

CI/CD tooling

Release automation

Environment orchestration

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Agile delivery

Risk management

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Release automation tools

Environment orchestration platforms

Testing tooling

Job description

ASX Group in Australia is seeking an experienced Environment and Release Manager to own end-to-end environment strategy for large-scale technology programs. You will coordinate provisioning, testing environments, release planning, governance, and stakeholder engagement across internal teams and vendors, ensuring go-live readiness.

This role also requires strong collaboration across multi-disciplinary teams and adherence to regulatory and risk frameworks, with a hybrid working setup in place.