Environment and Release Manager

ASX:
Powering Australia's financial markets

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.

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.

• 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.

• 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…