Lead Release & Platform Engineer

Chandler Macleod Group; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Chandler Macleod Group is seeking a Lead Release & Platform Engineer to drive release engineering and platform alignment for a large-scale transformation in Melbourne CBD. This 12-month contract role is in a hybrid working environment.

You will own release strategy, code management practices, and CI/CD across SaaS, cloud, API and data platforms, coordinating across engineering teams and vendors while communicating risks to leadership.

Qualifications

• Senior engineering professional with extensive experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, or Platform/SRE in large tech environments.
• Strong Git/GitHub expertise with branching, merge, tagging and release traceability.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, and release governance.

Responsibilities

• Own release engineering and code management standards across multiple platforms.
• Lead branching, merging, versioning, release governance and deployment practices.
• Drive CI/CD, release automation, environment promotion and rollback readiness.
• Coordinate major releases across engineering teams, vendors and platforms.
• Ensure end-to-end platform compatibility, release readiness and risk management.
• Provide engineering insights and recommendations to leadership.

Skills

Release engineering

DevOps

Platform engineering

Site Reliability Engineering

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Git/GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Artifact management

Job description

We're seeking a Lead Release & Platform Engineer to drive release engineering, deployment integrity, and platform alignment across a large-scale transformation program. This is a high-impact role where you'll lead release strategy, code management practices, and cross-platform delivery across a complex ecosystem of SaaS, cloud, digital, integration, and data platforms. This is a 12-month contract role with our client AGL, based in Melbourne CBD, in a hybrid working environment.

What You'll Do

• Own release engineering and code management standards across multiple platforms.
• Lead branching, merging, versioning, release governance, and deployment practices.
• Drive CI/CD, release automation, environment promotion, and rollback readiness.
• Coordinate major releases across engineering teams, vendors, and technology platforms.
• Ensure end-to-end platform compatibility, release readiness, and technical risk management.
• Provide clear engineering insights and recommendations to delivery and leadership teams.

About You

You are a senior engineering professional with extensive experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering within large and complex technology environments.

You'll Bring:

• Strong experience leading release and deployment practices across multiple engineering teams.
• Advanced Git/GitHub expertise, including branching strategies, merge management, pull request controls, tagging, and release traceability.
• Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, artifact management, feature flags, configuration management, environment promotion, and rollback strategies.
• Experience delivering integrated releases involving SaaS platforms, custom-built applications, APIs, cloud services, and vendor-managed solutions.
• Strong understanding of release governance, operational readiness, change control, security requirements, and production support.
• The ability to communicate technical risks and recommendations to both engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Proven experience influencing teams, driving accountability, and establishing engineering standards.

If you're passionate about release engineering, platform reliability, and delivering change at scale, we'd love to hear from you.