Environment Manager

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks' annual leave

Insurance suite

Flexible working

Career development

Job summary

Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities is seeking an experienced Environment Manager to lead planning, coordination, and ongoing maintenance of our non-production technology environments. This role ensures environments are available, fit for purpose, and aligned with delivery and operational needs.

As a trusted advisor, you will mentor the Release team, coordinate across delivery, testing, infrastructure, and application teams, and partner with stakeholders to optimise environment usage and

Qualifications

• Experience in large, complex technology environments, ideally within the public sector, with a focus on scheduling, coordination, and delivery management.
• Advanced knowledge of environment management frameworks, methodologies, controls, and best practices.
• Solid understanding of release management, change management, and incident management processes.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to develop effective partnerships across technology teams, stakeholders, and business units.
• Excellent judgement, discretion, and the ability to remain calm and effective when managing competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with a keen attention to detail, ensuring high levels of accuracy and quality.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead planning, coordination, and ongoing maintenance of Kāinga Ora's non-production technology environments.
• Ensure environments are available, fit for purpose, and aligned with delivery and operational requirements.
• Provide guidance on environment management practices and coordinate activities across the delivery lifecycle.
• Mentor, coach, and support members of the Release team.
• Collaborate with delivery, testing, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure environments are available and ready.
• Engage with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure effective planning and utilisation of environments.

Skills

Scheduling & delivery management

Environment frameworks

Release management

Change management

Incident management

Relationship building

Communication

Judgement & discretion

Strategic thinking

Attention to detail

Analytical mindset

Proactive problem solving

Job description

• Play a key role in ensuring the stability, readiness, and success of our technology environments
• Work across multiple business and technology teams
• Permanent role, 5 weeks leave + a suite of benefits

Te whiwhinga mahi - Our opportunity

Kāinga Ora is looking for an experienced and collaborative Environment Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and ongoing maintenance of Kāinga Ora's non-production technology environments. This is an exciting opportunity to ensure environments are available, fit for purpose, and aligned with delivery and operational requirements.

As a trusted advisor and technical leader, you will provide guidance on environment management practices, coordinate environment activities across the delivery lifecycle, and support production environment maintenance where required. The Environment Manager will partner closely with delivery, testing, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure environments are available and ready to support project and operational needs. Collaboration with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure effective planning and utilisation of environments is a key focus of this role.

You will also mentor, coach, and support members of the Release team, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Ngā Pūmanawatanga Ōu - What You Will Bring

As our Environment Manager you will enjoy working across multiple teams to deliver successful outcomes. You bring a strong customer focus, a continuous improvement mindset, and the leadership skills needed to guide others while ensuring environments are well managed, reliable, and ready to support business and technology delivery.

Here’s What You Will Bring To The Role

To Be Successful In This Role, You'll Have

• Experience working in large, complex technology environments, ideally within the public sector, with a strong focus on scheduling, coordination, and delivery management
• Advanced knowledge of environment management frameworks, methodologies, controls, and best practices
• Solid understanding of release management, change management, and incident management processes
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to develop effective partnerships across technology teams, stakeholders, and business units
• Excellent judgement, discretion, and the ability to remain calm and effective when managing competing priorities and tight deadlines
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with a keen attention to detail, ensuring high levels of accuracy and quality
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues

This role requires flexibility to work outside normal business hours when required to support critical environment and release activities.

Nōu te rourou - What's in it for you?

We offer competitive salaries, five weeks' annual leave and a benefits package including a range of insurances, flexible working arrangements and career development. These benefits are described in more detail here https://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz/a-great-place-to-work/benefits

As a Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities employee, we want to make sure that you have all the tools and support you need. We want to ensure you are healthy and have work-life balance. We also want to support and grow your personal and career development through on-the-job learning, training courses, secondments and study opportunities.

Mō mātou - Our Organisation

At Kāinga Ora, ours is the important responsibility of transforming New Zealand’s housing choices, outcomes and the entire housing sector by creating homes and communities that allow New Zealanders to thrive.

What is exciting about working for Kāinga Ora is getting the chance to make a real and positive impact on New Zealanders’ lives. With skills, planning and purposeful action, our people are creating the homes and neighbourhoods that will build the future of Aotearoa.

We are passionate about transforming New Zealand for the better. That includes being a trusted partner for Māori and iwi, protecting and enabling their rights, interests and aspirations under the guidance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Ō tātou uara - Our values

• Manaakitanga – People at the Heart
• Mahi Tahi – Better Together
• Whanake – Be Bold

Tūhono mai - Join us

Applications close Tuesday 8th September at 11:55pm

We value diversity and are committed to working with each other and our customers in an inclusive and respectful way. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and appreciate the richness of experience that your point of difference brings to the organisation.