Release Engineer – CI/CD, Cloud & Automation

VicRoads; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and benefits

Hybrid and flexible working agreements

Collaborative, inclusive culture

Professional development and growth

Job summary

VicRoads is seeking a Release Engineer to join our Technology team in Melbourne, delivering software and infrastructure releases across enterprise platforms. You will coordinate deployments, ensure environment readiness, and drive release automation in a fast-paced Agile setting.

You will work with DevOps, Engineering, QA and business stakeholders to maintain governance, documentation and continuous improvement initiatives, while complying with security and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Baseline Security Clearance eligibility.
• Excellent stakeholder management and negotiation skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Jira and Confluence with workflow automation experience.
• Exposure to cloud platforms including AWS and/or Azure.
• Tertiary qualifications in Information Technology, Computer Science or related discipline.
• Experience in software release, deployment or DevOps roles within an Agile environment.
• Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines and version control tools.
• ITIL, DevOps Foundation or similar certifications is highly regarded.
• Experience within large-scale, complex or regulated enterprise environments will be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate and support software and infrastructure releases across Agile delivery streams.
• Execute deployments across non-production and production environments, including version control and rollback activities.
• Work with DevOps and infrastructure teams to ensure environment readiness throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of CI/CD pipelines and release automation practices.
• Maintain release documentation, governance controls and change records.
• Monitor release performance, identify risks and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Communication

Agile experience

Attention to detail

Collaboration across teams

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT/CS

Tools

Jira

Confluence

CI/CD pipelines

Version control

AWS/Azure

Job description

VicRoads is seeking a Release Engineer to join our Technology team in Melbourne, delivering software and infrastructure releases across enterprise platforms. You will coordinate deployments, ensure environment readiness, and drive release automation in a fast-paced Agile setting.

You will work with DevOps, Engineering, QA and business stakeholders to maintain governance, documentation and continuous improvement initiatives, while complying with security and regulatory requirements.