Release Lead: Salesforce & CI/CD Orchestration

N2S.Global; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

N2S.Global in Sydney seeks an experienced Release Manager to lead end-to-end release activities across SIT, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production. You will own planning, governance, deployment coordination, change management, and stakeholder communications to ensure controlled, high-quality software releases.

The role requires coordinating across Delivery, Testing, DevOps, Security, Platform, and Operations teams, with a focus on Salesforce release management and automation using GitLab, Jenkins,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of Release Management experience in complex enterprise environments.
• Proven experience managing releases across SIT, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Strong understanding of release governance, deployment controls, code freezes, and release gating.
• Hands-on experience with: GitLab
• Jenkins
• Jira
• Confluence
• Terraform
• Experience coordinating CAB processes, change approvals, and release governance activities.
• Strong understanding of branching strategies, version control, and environment promotion controls.
• Experience with deployment automation, rollback planning, and release orchestration.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and coordination skills.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle across SIT, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Define release scope, schedules, milestones, and deployment windows.
• Manage release calendars and coordinate concurrent releases across multiple teams and projects.
• Facilitate release readiness reviews and support Go/No-Go decision-making processes.
• Coordinate post-release validation and hypercare activities.
• Govern release scope, code freeze activities, deployment gating, and promotion controls.
• Ensure release dependencies, risks, and conflicts are identified and managed proactively.
• Coordinate deployment execution, rollback planning, and production stabilization activities.
• Lead Change Request (CHG) processes and coordinate CAB approvals.
• Ensure all releases comply with organizational change governance standards.
• Maintain audit-ready release documentation and approval records.
• Assess release risks and drive mitigation plans throughout the release lifecycle.
• Provide release status reporting and executive-level communications.
• Facilitate release planning sessions, deployment calls, war rooms, and hypercare governance.
• Coordinate activities across Delivery, Testing, DevOps, Platform, Infrastructure, Security, and Operations teams.

Skills

Release management

Stakeholder management

Communication

Cross-functional coordination

Tools

GitLab

Jenkins

Jira

Confluence

Terraform

SFDX

Job description

N2S.Global in Sydney seeks an experienced Release Manager to lead end-to-end release activities across SIT, UAT, Pre-Production, and Production. You will own planning, governance, deployment coordination, change management, and stakeholder communications to ensure controlled, high-quality software releases.

The role requires coordinating across Delivery, Testing, DevOps, Security, Platform, and Operations teams, with a focus on Salesforce release management and automation using GitLab, Jenkins,