Environment and Release Manager

ASX Limited; Australia Landing (MS); Hybrid; USD 97,000 - 132,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Job summary

ASX Group is seeking an experienced Release Manager to lead planning, scheduling and deployment of software across environments. You will coordinate cross‑functional teams, manage interdependencies, and drive release quality in a highly regulated financial setting.

The role offers hybrid working arrangements and requires background checks as part of onboarding. The ideal candidate has extensive experience in CI/CD, environment management, and working with AWS, with a proven track record in

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in planning, scheduling, testing, deploying, maintaining and controlling software releases across environments.
• Experience managing others while coordinating Environment and Release Management activities.
• Knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Experience across legacy on‑prem to cloud workloads (AWS).

Responsibilities

• Communicate scope, purpose and status of releases, environments and risks to ensure quality and timely deployments.
• Plan and facilitate release and patching activities across development and testing environments.
• Manage interdependencies to meet milestones and maintain release integrity.
• Maintain environment consistency across full lifecycle including production and external testing.
• Provide environment support across test environments and chair war rooms as needed.
• Conduct post-release PIRs to identify and address quality issues.
• Define and manage change control processes for readiness criteria and artefacts.
• Drive continuous improvement in release and environment management processes.
• Coordinate packaging across the CHESS project and communicate with vendors and delivery teams.

Skills

Release management

Stakeholder management

CI/CD

Agile delivery

Cloud (AWS)

Tools

Jenkins

Git

CI/CD Tools

Job description

ASX: Powering Australia's financial markets

Why join the ASX?

When you join ASX, you're joining a company with a strong purpose – to power a stronger economic future by enabling a fair and dynamic marketplace for all. In your new role, you'll be part of a leading global securities exchange with a strong brand. We are known for being a trusted market operator and an exciting data hub.

We are more than a securities exchange!

The ASX team brings together talented people from a diverse range of disciplines. We run critical market infrastructure, with 1 in 3 people employed within technology. Yet we have a unique complexity of roles across a range of disciplines such as operations, program delivery, financial products, investor engagement, risk and compliance. We're proud to foster a workplace where diversity is celebrated and inclusion is part of our everyday culture. Our employee-led networks champion LGBTIQ+ inclusion, promote gender equality, accessibility and wellbeing, inspire giving and volunteering, and celebrate cultural and religious events, creating a sense of belonging for all. As an AWEI Bronze employer and member of the Champions of Change Coalition for gender equality, we're committed to a fair and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Your responsibilities:

• Communicate the scope and purpose of releases, environment refreshes, release schedules, release status, and escalation of issues and risks, while ensuring that the quality and integrity of releases are maintained.
• Plan and facilitate release and patching activities across development and testing, ensuring quality and timely deployments across all environments.
• Assist in managing interdependencies to ensure milestone adherence, and ensure the integrity of releases, which can be measured.
• Maintain environment consistency for all components across the full environment lifecycle from testing, external testing and Production environments.
• Providing environment support across internal and external test environments including establishing and chairing war rooms with relevant support teams as required.
• Conducting PIRs post release to ensure release quality issues are identified, documented and addressed.
• Define and manage technical change control processes for release readiness criteria, including completing all implementation readiness artefacts and ensure all changes meet readiness criteria prior to deployment.
• Drive continuous improvement in the release and environment management processes.
• Coordination, release management and packaging across the CHESS project.
• Communication with vendors and internal delivery teams for the packaging of releases.

Must have:

• Minimum of 8+ years of experience in planning, scheduling, testing, deploying, maintaining and controlling software releases across environments.
• The ideal candidate will also have experience in managing others while co‑ordinating Environment and Release Management activities across a portfolio within the CHESS team.
• Experience and knowledge of release management principles, methodologies and tools.
• Expertise should cover Environment and Release Management across a range of environments from legacy on‑prem environments through to contemporary container‑based Cloud workloads (AWS).
• Experience with the Software Development Lifecycle, continuous delivery/continuous integration (CI/CD) principals.
• Experience with software version control, branching strategy and dependency management.
• Help streamline the release strategy, building towards a defined release cadence.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across Architecture, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Compliance, QE&T.
• Build out comprehensive KPIs, metrics, and SLAs to measure, performance and success rates of Releases,
• Manage knowledgebase of standards, training material, etc.
• Identify opportunities for cloud efficiency enhancementsacross the organization.
• Experience in highly regulated financial environments.
• Worked in a cross-functional, agile delivery team.
• Comfortable presenting at various forums and to senior stakeholders.

Nice to have:

• Strong stakeholder management, collaboration and leadership qualities.
• Strong sense of ownership, customer service and integritydemonstrated through clear communications.
• Passionate about Release Engineering.
• Understand challenges and trade-offs building, deploying, and running solutions in different environments.
• Understanding of cloud-native frameworks and landscapes.

We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you'll help us to live our values.

At ASX Group, our diverse workforce is essential to build and maintain a fair and dynamic marketplace. We support flexible working and offer hybrid working options.

We will arrange for successful candidates to have background checks, including reference and police checks, completed as part of the on-boarding process.

To be considered for this position, candidates must be legally authorised to work in Australia on a permanent basis without any restrictions.