Senior Release Manager — DevOps & Governance

Apex Group; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Apex Group in Sydney is seeking a Release Manager for PAXUS to govern end-to-end software releases across major, minor, and patch cycles. You will coordinate branches, maintain traceability, and drive a sprint-style cadence with customer stakeholders to ensure timely delivery.

Working with Product, Development, QA, and executives, you will set release standards, manage deployment runbooks, and ensure post-release validation and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in software delivery, release management, DevOps, or a related IT discipline.
• 2+ years’ hands-on experience managing multi-branch release models in an enterprise software environment.
• Experience owning end-to-end release governance across major releases, minor releases, patches, and hotfixes.
• Strong practical expertise with Git branching strategies, merge/cherry-pick workflows, change traceability.
• Experience with GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps pipelines, approvals, and release controls.

Responsibilities

• Act as the single point of accountability for release and branch governance across SDLC streams.
• Collaborate with Product, Development, QA, and leadership to align releases with priorities.
• Define branching standards and manage customer-specific branches across baselines.
• Design sprint-style customer release cadence and coordinate scope and acceptance criteria.
• Own release planning, QA strategy, and deployment readiness gates; lead go/no-go forums.

Skills

Release governance

DevOps

Git branching

GitHub Enterprise

Azure DevOps

Stakeholder mgmt

QA collaboration

Planning & analytics

Communication

Education

Information Technology / Computer Science degree

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

SQL Server

.NET Core

Job description

Apex Group in Sydney is seeking a Release Manager for PAXUS to govern end-to-end software releases across major, minor, and patch cycles. You will coordinate branches, maintain traceability, and drive a sprint-style cadence with customer stakeholders to ensure timely delivery.

Working with Product, Development, QA, and executives, you will set release standards, manage deployment runbooks, and ensure post-release validation and continuous improvement.