Release Manager
Release Manager
Local Peoples is seeking enthusiastic and talented Release Manager in the ACT, NSW, VI or Offsite to join our team as embedded members with our prestigious Government client. Our Government client is looking for an experienced release manager for Agile Delivery.
You will be required to facilitate Agile ceremonies, help to build a high performing team, support the Product Owner, and remove or mitigate delivery impediments, issues, and risks.
You will collaborate closely with senior leadership, stakeholders, and technical teams to ensure the efficient creation, management, and utilisation of information resources. Join us and play a crucial role in exciting projects directly alongside government clients.
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain the release schedule, balancing technical dependencies, business requirements, and stakeholder engagement
- Experience managing risks and interdependencies associated with releases and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies
- Facilitate releases into key environments in consultation with the relevant stakeholders
- Work with developers to understand impacts of code merges
- Conduct release readiness reviews and quality assurance checks
- Ensure stability of the platform post release and manage post-incident reviews, including any applicable documentation
- Uplift the quality of releases, alongside technical and test leads
Key Capabilities
- 5+ years demonstrated release management experience in a complex technical environment
- Tertiary qualification in Computer Science or related field
- Ability to work under pressure and have the drive to continually improve and optimise release processes
- Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams up to task completion
- Organisational and multitasking abilities with strong attention to detail working within an Agile delivery environment
- High level of proficiency with Azure DevOps, Pipelines and other DevOps tools
- Working knowledge of the SDLC, DevOps and CI/CD, with proven experience of release management tools
Essential Criteria:
- 5+ years demonstrated release management experience in a complex technical environment
- Working knowledge of the SDLC, DevOps and CI/CD, with proven experience of release management tools
- Ability to work under pressure and have the drive to continually improve and optimise release processes
- Experience in coordinating cross-functional teams up to task completion
Residency & Clearance:
- Must have Baseline Clearance
- Australian Citizen
- This role is open to ACT, NSW, VIC or Offsite
Who are Local Peoples?
Local Peoples is a strategic research and design studio based in Melbourne and Canberra.
Our mission is to design healthy, resilient and resourceful communities. We are proud to be a certified B-Corporation with a strong focus on our social, environmental and economic impact.
We work across brand and digital design, place and experience design,, content and community engagement. Our key partners include state and local government, social enterprises, universities and large commercial organisations. All are experiencing complex challenges right now and we believe that design research, thinking and delivery can help to solve these challenges and make positive change for people and the planet.
We produce www.mattersjournal.com, a publication and community of 100K+, which focuses on design-led social innovation and impact.
Benefits of working with Local Peoples:
- We are experts in team design and augmentation - supporting with the right skills and experience at the right time.
- We are leaders in the human centred design space with diverse design skills across brand design, service design, User interface (UI) and User experience (UX) design, design research, communications and place design.
- We are a certified B-Corporation and prioritise the social, environmental and economic impact of our work.
- Our people always have the full support of the studio to call upon for design thinking, tools and tips, so you are not just getting access to one bright mind, but a collective of many with diverse and deep experiences.
- We are top tier talent who are experienced and incredibly passionate about supporting the impact of your agency and the public sector
- Department
- Delivery
- Role
- Project/Delivery Manager
- Locations
- Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne
- Remote status
- Hybrid Remote
- Employment type
- Full-time
About Local Peoples
Local Peoples works, creates and plays on the lands of the Wurundjeri, Bunurong and Wathaurong peoples of the Kulin Nation, land which has never been ceded. We thank them them for caring for this land for over 40,000 years and recognise and pay our deepest respect to elders past, present and emerging. This always was and always will be Aboriginal land.
Release Manager
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