Deployment Lead
Location – Parramatta – 50% Hybrid
Employment type – Ongoing – Full-time
Salary – Clerk Grade ***** $154,231- $178,369plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading
Your role
Lead the establishment, operation and continuous improvement of deployment and setting management practices across complex digital and technology initiatives.
The role plans and governs the controlled movement of changes through development, test, staging and production environments; coordinates integrated deployment outcomes across delivery teams and suppliers; and provides authoritative advice on readiness, risk, implementation, rollback and post-deployment assurance to protect service continuity and customer outcomes.
What you'll do
Establish deployment and setting management standards, governance and controls.
Lead integrated release calendars, deployment plans, cutover sequencing and rollback arrangements.
Coordinate environment capacity, configuration, access, data refresh and readiness across teams.
Apply deployment and service acceptance gates using testing, security and operational evidence.
Direct high-risk deployments, command and control, incident escalation and recovery.
Provide authoritative go/no-go advice on readiness, dependencies, residual risk and service impacts.
Improve deployment automation, CI/CD, DevSecOps, monitoring and release reliability.
Manage delivery partners and uplift deployment practice through coaching and lessons learned.
What we're looking for
Expert knowledge of release management, CI/CD, DevSecOps, configuration management and rollback.
Experience in managing shared environments,



service acceptance and deployment risks across multiple suppliers.
Ability to coordinate high-pressure implementations and provide clear executive readiness advice.
Demonstrated improvement of deployment reliability, automation and operational handover.
Essential requirements
Tertiary qualifications in information technology, computer science, engineering, business or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant knowledge, skills and experience.
The role is required to support planned deployments, cutovers, recovery activities and major incidents outside normal business hours and may participate in an on-call arrangement
Desirable Requirements
Experience with Salesforce, cloud services and integrated enterprise applications.
ITIL 4, DevOps, cloud, release or change management certifications.
Experience in public sector or similarly regulated service environments.
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What We Offer
We offer a variety of benefits, including:
A challenging and rewarding career
Flexible, autonomous work environment
Competitive pay and conditions
Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.
We do work that really matters
Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ)



provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference.
We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities.
We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage.
It's work that really matters.
Applications close
20 November **** at 11:59pm AEST.
For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Raymond Brown on ********** or at ******
If you've got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Meryl Georges on ********* or via ******
Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.
Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit
We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds.
This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.
To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.
Other Information
A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.
For more information visit Applying for DCJ jobs on the DCJ website.
Thank you for your interest in this role.
We look forward to receiving your application.

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