15th October, 2026

As enterprise technology environments become increasingly complex, the ability to keep platforms stable, releases controlled and teams aligned has never been more critical.

Our client, a large-scale technology organisation operating across complex enterprise platforms, is seeking an Environment & Release Manager to take ownership of workplace readiness, release governance and production delivery across multiple applications and platforms.

This is a high-visibility role sitting at the centre of Engineering, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Product and Business teams, ensuring releases move from planning through to production with the right controls, dependencies and risk management in place.

Why This One Is Different

This role goes beyond traditional release coordination. You will have broad ownership across the environment and release lifecycle:

- Own the health and readiness of development through production environments
- Govern releases across multiple applications, platforms and integration layers
- Work across complex distributed architectures, microservices and enterprise commerce platforms
- Act as the central coordination point across technical and business teams
- Influence release governance, quality gates, Go/No-Go decisions and risk management
- Drive continuous improvement through post-release reviews and governance

What You'll Do

- Own environment availability, readiness and operational stability across the delivery lifecycle
- Manage consolidated release calendars and coordinate BAU, project and emergency releases




- Establish and enforce release governance, quality gates and Go/No-Go checkpoints
- Coordinate deployment plans, rollback procedures, release notes and operational runbooks
- Identify and manage environment conflicts, dependencies and release risks
- Lead release readiness reviews and coordinate successful production deployments
- Facilitate RCA activities and track corrective actions through to completion
- Coordinate Engineering, QA, DevOps, Infrastructure, Product and Business stakeholders

What You'll Bring

- Proven experience in Environment Management, Release Management or Application Delivery Management
- Strong understanding of SDLC, release governance and change management
- Experience managing multiple concurrent environments within complex enterprise environments
- Knowledge of distributed architectures, microservices, middleware and integrations
- Experience working with enterprise commerce platforms
- Strong experience partnering with DevOps, QA, Infrastructure and Engineering teams
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, planning and risk management skills
- Experience with CAB, incident management and RCA processes

Excellent career opportunity.

Salary is negotiable based upon experience, with an attractive base + super + bonuses on offer to attract high-quality candidates.

Confidential discussions welcome.

To apply for this outstanding opportunity, send your CV to [email protected] or call (03) 9069 8143 for more information.

📌 Environment & Release Manager (Melbourne)
🏢 xtend recruitment
📍 Melbourne