Wellington Release & Environments Lead | DevOps & Azure

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

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.