Are you looking for an awesome place to work, where you can proudly be your authentic self, and be part of #oneteam?
We are looking for a passionate team player whoaligns with our values and culture, takes pride in their unique contributions, and can challenge the status quo with disruptive thinking. If this sounds like you, come and join us!
The Opportunity
The DevOps & Release Manager has end-to-end ownership of Release Management across BSS applications within T&S. The role is accountable for defining, governing and continuously improving the release management framework, ensuring the planned, timely and controlled promotion of code through non-production and production environments.
The role owns release cadence, planning, coordination and execution across multiple engineering teams and vendors, balancing speed, quality and risk. Acting as the single point of accountability for release outcomes, the DevOps & Release Manager champions DevOps and CI/CD maturity, embedding automation, quality and secure-by-design practices to enable scalable, predictable and high-quality delivery within a scaled agile model.
What you'll be responsible for
The key responsibilities of the role are listed below. These may change in response to your personal growth and business demands.
Release Management & Governance
- Design, implement and own the enterprise release management framework, ensuring consistency, transparency and repeatability across delivery teams.
- Establish release governance, standards and controls aligned to organisational risk appetite and industry best practice.
- Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle, including the timely promotion of code through development, test, staging and production environments.
- Own and maintain the release cadence, calendar and forward schedule across all environments.
- Facilitate release readiness reviews, Go/No-Go sessions and formal release approvals.
- Ensure releases comply with change, security, quality and operational requirements.
DevOps & CI/CD Enablement
- Champion DevOps culture and practices, partnering with engineering teams to uplift CI/CD maturity.
- Drive automation across build, test, deployment and release pipelines to enable fast, reliable code promotion between environments.
- Embed quality, security and compliance controls into pipelines using secure-by-design principles.
- Identify and remove manual steps, constraints and dependencies that delay code promotion and release throughput.
Coordination & Stakeholder Management
- Coordinate release activities across multiple product, platform and delivery teams, including third-party vendors.
- Act as the central point of accountability for release dependencies, sequencing and environment availability.
- Provide clear, timely communications to technology and business stakeholders before, during and after releases.
Risk, Quality & Continuous Improvement
- Proactively identify, assess and mitigate risks associated with releases, deployments and environment transitions.
- Lead post-release reviews, lessons learnt and root cause analysis to continuously improve release reliability and speed.
- Define, track and report on release and DevOps metrics (e.g. deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate).
- Continuously evolve release and promotion practices to support scale, resilience and operational stability.
Environment Management
- Own and coordinate environment management across non-production and production landscapes.
- Ensure environments are stable, appropriately configured and available to support testing, validation and release activities.
- Plan and optimise environment usage to support parallel delivery and frequent code promotion in a scaled agile model.
What you'll bring to the role
Essential
- Proven experience in Release Management, DevOps or Platform delivery within complex, multi-team environments.
- Strong understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automated deployments and environment promotion strategies.
- Experience operating in Agile and Scaled Agile delivery models (e.g. SAFe, LeSS).
- Demonstrated ability to manage release cadence, dependencies and environment transitions at scale.
- Strong risk management, problem-solving and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable
- Experience in large-scale or regulated enterprise environments.
- Hands-on exposure to modern DevOps tooling (e.g. Git, Jenkins/GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Terraform, Kubernetes).
- Experience integrating ITIL change practices with modern DevOps delivery.
- Vendor and multi-partner delivery experience.
Personal Attributes
- Strong delivery focus with a bias toward automation and simplification.
- Influential leader who can drive change across teams without direct authority.
- Calm, structured and decisive during release and deployment events.
- Continuous improvement mindset with a passion for engineering excellence.
- Structured and disciplined – values rigor, standards and repeatability.
- Strategic yet pragmatic – able to define enterprise frameworks and drive adoption.
- Collaborative leader – influences across engineering, delivery and business teams.
- Data-driven – uses metrics to drive insight and improvement.
- Accountable and resilient – comfortable operating in complex, multi-project environments.
- Safety – ensure the safety culture of the Vocus is adhered for all projects under the program of work
- Behave ethically – understand ethical behaviour and business practices and ensure that your own behaviour and behaviour of others is consistent with the Vocus Values
- Communicate effectively – Speak, listen, and write in a clear, thorough, and timely manner using appropriate and effective communication tools and techniques
What We Offer
Working at Vocus will give you rewarding experiences and the opportunity to do extraordinary work. You will enjoy:
- Diverse and dynamic teams with a supportive and inclusive culture.
- Supportive career development plans with comprehensive ongoing training, support, and development opportunities.
- Flexible hours and a hybrid working environment
- Generous discounts on power, gas, mobile and internet; plus, discounts to over 400 retailers.
- Competitive leave options, including anniversary leave, purchased leave, parental leave, volunteering leave, study leave, and 5 extra days of Vocus leave each year, plus more.
- Study assistance programs to excel your personal growth, learning and development.
- Health and wellness offerings, including access to our wellbeing initiatives that can help you from a financial, psychological, and physical perspective.
Working at Vocus is never just a job – it’s personal. We’re crazy about our customers and believe our people are the difference. Our wonderfully diverse team and a vibrant culture define us. We care about the impact we have on our people, our customers, and our communities and are committed to operating as a responsible, ethical business.
We pride ourselves on setting audacious and ambitious goals and believe that we can play our part in changing the Australian telecommunications landscape and make a fundamental difference to people’s lives.
With us, you’ll have the opportunity to lead and inspire teams, work on projects that are shaping the future of telecommunications and become part of a culture that thrives on creativity, encourages new ideas, and provides a collaborative and inclusive environment.
About Us
As Australia’s specialist fibre and network solutions provider, we own and operate 25,000km of secure, high-capacity fibre connecting people, businesses, governments, and communities across Australia to the world. Through our well-known retail brands, we deliver simple and affordable broadband, mobile, voice and energy services with the purpose of Building Critical Connections. Enabling Better Possibilities.
Ready to take the next step?
If you like the sound of this role and think you’d do a great job, but are worried you don’t tick every box, we encourage you to back yourself – we know that diverse groups are less-likely to apply for roles they’re not 100% qualified for, but just as likely to succeed at them!
We are a proud equal opportunity employer committed to providing a safe, diverse, and inclusive working environment where all our team members feel like they belong. We know diversity makes us stronger and we encourage applications irrespective of background, age, origin, gender, sexual orientation, identity, or ability.
If you feel comfortable, please let us know if you have any accessibility requirements upon application, so we can make any adjustments required to support you throughout our recruitment process.
