Manager Environment & Release Management at ASX

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

07 Jul, 26

Salary

0.0

Posted On

08 Apr, 26

Experience

10 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Environment management, Release management, Governance, CI/CD, Change control, Risk management, Configuration management, Stakeholder management, People leadership, AWS cloud, Data platform, DevOps, Automation, Infrastructure-as-code, Strategic planning, Agile

Industry

Financial Services

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. Want to know why we are a great place to work, click on the link to learn more. www.asx.com.au/about/careers/a-great-place-to-work 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. How we do things at ASX is just as important as what we do. As a People Leader, you will not only be accountable for the duties outlined below, but also for building an inclusive, collaborative, and empowered team environment that encourages innovation, ownership, and accountability — in line with ASX Leadership Principles. Core responsibilities • Governance & Strategy - Establish and maintain Data Platform environment and release management strategy, aligning to the ASX Delivery Framework and approved Target Architectures. - Embed governance, controls, and service functions ensuring non-production environments and release pipelines meet organizational standards for stability, reliability, and security. - Collaborate with DevOps, Infrastructure, Platform, and Program teams to ensure a consistent approach to provisioning, deployment, and change control. • Environment Management - Create and maintain processes for managing, building, provisioning, and decommissioning environments. - Govern environment configurations, refreshes, and integrations across development, testing, and production-like landscapes. - Proactively identify risks and issues across environments and implement controls to improve reliability and consistency. - Partner with Lines of Business and delivery teams to ensure environment readiness and capacity for key delivery milestones. - Ensure environmental problems and incidents are managed and resolved through structured processes and continuous improvement. • Release Management - Strategically plan, coordinate, and manage release deliverables across multiple programs within the Data Platform, leveraging agile and CI/CD practices. - Define, communicate, and oversee release schedules, deployment readiness, and cut-over planning. - Maintain visibility of release scope, dependencies, and quality to ensure integrity of production deployments. - Drive continuous improvement of release and deployment processes, adopting automation tools and release-as-code practices. - Coordinate with key stakeholders to ensure releases meet technical and business readiness criteria prior to deployment. • Leadership & Collaboration - Provide strong people leadership — mentoring and developing team members while fostering collaboration and innovation. - Act as the key liaison between Technology, Platform Engineering, Data, Integration, Digital, and Business stakeholders. - Contribute to delivery excellence by ensuring integrated release and environment planning across programs and Lines of Business. - Present insights, metrics, and recommendations to senior stakeholders to guide planning and decision-making. - Champion ASX values of integrity, excellence, and teamwork through transparent communication and proactive leadership. Your experience and qualifications Skills Required: Environment & Release Governance – Defines and maintains enterprise policies, standards, and controls for environment provisioning and release orchestration. Monitors adherence across teams and ensures alignment with delivery and architectural frameworks. Change Control & Risk Management – Leads assessment, documentation, and implementation of complex changes. Evaluates proposed changes for risk and integrity across environments and releases. Ensures appropriate change approvals and rollback mechanisms. Configuration Management – Implements secure and auditable configuration processes, ensuring environments and releases maintain consistent baselines. Manages tools and automation for tracking, logging, and reporting environment states. Systems & Software Lifecycle Deployment – Establishes practices for deploying and operating systems securely and efficiently. Selects lifecycle tools and automation to optimize software delivery and operational readiness. Service Acceptance & Continuous Delivery – Works with DevOps and delivery teams to ensure all release outputs meet agreed service acceptance and readiness criteria. Evaluates performance against SLAs and improvement targets. Stakeholder & Relationship Management – Acts as a single point of contact for environment and release governance. Builds strong partnerships across Lines of Business, providing clear communication, expectation management, and outcome-driven collaboration. People Leadership & Performance Management – Develops objectives, coaches teams, and provides feedback aligned to organizational goals. Fosters skill uplift in DevOps, automation, and environment management. Encourages innovation and accountabilities Experience & Qualification: Minimum of 8+ years’ experience across Test Environment Management, Release Management, and Continuous Delivery enablement within large, regulated environments (preferably financial services). Proven experience managing end-to-end non-production environments, including provisioning, governance, and decommissioning. Strong expertise in release planning, orchestration, and CI/CD pipeline integration across on-prem and cloud workloads. Demonstrated capability in establishing enterprise-wide governance for environments, releases, and change control. Solid understanding of AWS Cloud, Data Platform, and DevOps practices. Experience leading teams and influencing senior stakeholders across multiple Lines of Business. Comfortable presenting to executives and contributing to strategic decision-making. Nice to have Experience with automated environment provisioning, container orchestration (EKS/Fargate), and Infrastructure-as-Code. Familiarity with tools such as GitLab, Confluence, JIRA, Xray, Broadcom TDM, or ServiceNow. Strong sense of ownership, customer focus, and integrity demonstrated through proactive leadership and continuous improvement. Passionate about driving operational excellence and release engineering maturity We make hiring decisions based on your skills, capabilities and experience, and how you’ll help us to live our values. We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all the criteria of this role. If you need any adjustments during the application or interview process to help you present your best self, please let us know at careers@asx.com.au. 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. Even if our roles are advertised as full-time, we encourage you to apply if you are interested in part-time or other flexible working arrangements. 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. ASX is an integrated exchange offering listings, trading, clearing, settlement, technical and information services, technology, data and other post-trade services. It acts as a market operator, clearing house and payments system facilitator. It oversees compliance with its operating rules, promotes standards of corporate governance among Australia’s listed companies and helps to educate retail investors. ASX operates markets for a wide range of asset classes including equities, fixed income, commodities and energy. As an integrated exchange, ASX’s activities span primary and secondary market services, including the raising, allocation and hedging of capital flows; trading and price discovery; central counterparty risk transfer; and securities settlement for both the equities and fixed income markets. When you join ASX, you’ll be joining a dynamic global leader with a record of innovation and a reputation for integrity, transparency and professionalism. You’ll also enjoy an impressive range of employee benefits and a flexible working environment underpinned by a friendly and collaborative culture.

Responsibilities

The role involves establishing and maintaining environment and release management strategies while ensuring governance and stability across data platforms. The manager will lead a team, coordinate release deliverables, and act as a liaison between technology, data, and business stakeholders.