Release and Environment Manager

New Zealand Ministry Of Economic Development; Wellington; On-site; NZD 116,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

MBIE is seeking a Release and Environments Manager based in Wellington to plan and coordinate software and platform releases across multiple workstreams. The role focuses on ensuring releases are delivered successfully without service interruption across environments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to keep environments current, improve processes, and support planned deployments and incident response, including occasional out-of-hours work. NZ citizen or PR is required.

Qualifications

• Excellent written and oral communication skills – able to explain technical info to layperson.
• Excellent interpersonal skills – influence, champion processes across user groups.
• Sound relationship management skills – build and maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong organisational skills – prioritise and manage competing demands without loss of quality.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and coordinate software and platform releases across multiple workstreams.
• Plan and coordinate releases ensuring minimal service interruption across environments.
• Work with other teams to keep environments current and fit for purpose and review/update processes.
• Take ownership of release planning and coordination, including out-of-hours activities.

Skills

Communication skills

Interpersonal skills

Relationship management

Organisational skills

Analytical/problem-solving

Tools

Azure Services

Pipelines

Containers

Service Virtualisation

On-Prem processes

Job description

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• Deliver and co-ordinate software and platform releases for MBIE
• Wellington based
• Salary range $115,585 - $138,028 + Kiwisaver + Wellness Benefits

You will be part of the Strategy, Technology and Security Branch within Corporate and Digital Shared Services. As a Release and Environments Manager, you will play a key role in ensuring that releases are delivered successfully without service interruption across a number of different environments.

You will take ownership of planning and coordinating software and platform releases across multiple workstreams while seeking to continually improve ways of working. The role will work closely with other teams to ensure that environments are kept current and fit for purpose, and processes are reviewed and updated regularly.

Skills and Experience Required - Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills – able to communicate technical information to the understanding of a layperson
• Excellent interpersonal skills – able to influence and persuade, is comfortable championing processes across multiple user groups, adjusts style to needs of audience
• Sound relationship management skills – able to build and maintain effective working relationships
• Strong organisational skills – able to prioritise and effectively manage competing demands without any loss of quality or service
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Experience

• 5+ years’ experience in Release and Environment management including modern deployment practices using Azure Services, Pipelines, Containers, and Service Virtualisation, as well as on-Prem processes
• Experience with automation and integrating workflows an advantage
• Has demonstrated experience in working and integrating with SaaS products
• Experience in Cloud Tenancy Modelling and Management
• A curious mind and a desire to learn about technical innovations and how they may be applied to the MBIE environment
• Agile and DevOps delivery methodology/experience is desired

This role includes participation in out-of-hours release activities. Candidates must be comfortable working flexible hours to support planned deployments, production releases, and release-related incidents.

You must be a New Zealand citizen or Permanent Resident visa holder.

MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.

• Māia– Bold and brave
• Pae Kahurangi – Build our Future

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity – Hīkina Whakatutuki – which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under TeTiritio Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to TeTiritio Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

Applications close on Sunday, 1st November 2026 at 23:59