Release & Environment Coordinator: Drive Seamless Deployments in Sydney

Responsibilities:

• Provide administrative support to the Release Manager to develop, publish, communicate and enforce release management policies, processes, procedures and standards across all teams.
• Undertake effective coordination and integration for the provision of end-to-end Change and Release management .
• Apply effective governance requirements to ensure effective implementation to meet the Change & Release requirements.
• Attend appropriate Change & Release working level forums.
• Facilitation and representation of Change reviews and approvals via the CAB
• Validate progresses through the release phases and alert appropriate stakeholders of any risks and issues that need to be addressed.
• Identify, analyse and escalation risks and issues which may impact the team's ability to deliver releases within expected timeframes.
• Provide release coordination and communication during and after deployment.

Experience and Knowledge

• The establishment of effective controls & communication protocols to manage and report release activities.
• Experience with Application Support
• Emphasis on ensuring code release meet their exit criteria for each environment and are aligned with testing and inter-dependent programs.
• Coordinate Release of environment changes (where required).
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Devops practices
• Co-ordinate source code migration through various environments in a standard and controlled way.
• Maintain close understanding of source code configuration management, branching and merging aligned with the programs testing strategy and stream test plans.
• Establishing and running code change and deployment controls adherence to Release/CAB management processes.
• Keep Program stakeholders informed including (but not limited to) a forward schedule of release/change, participation in key meetings, reporting, and advice.
• Manage Release meetings, and effective communication and documentation to relevant parties ensuring the Release management process is clearly understood.
• Work closely with test leads, development lead and stream leads to ensure release management is effective and timely.
• Solid understanding of the principles and practices associated with environment management and provisioning.
• Understanding of and experience in Software Development Life Cycles, including Waterfall and Agile approaches.
• Understanding of relational databases and client server applications.
• Some experience with windows-based systems.
• Working knowledge of web, networks, web design principles, XML, Oracle, SQL, Microsoft products and cloud environments.
• User liaison skills and ability to read, document and understand business requirements and technical specifications.