Senior Release & Platform Engineer — Lead CI/CD & Deployments

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

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.