Release and Environment Manager

4 weeks ago


Wellington City, New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Full time

Date: 13-Apr-2023- Location: Wellington, NZ, 6011**Discover a career with purpose at MBIE**:

- Help our Digital, Data & Insights team coordinate specialists, vendors and project management by coordinating regular product releases
- Work in a complex and dynamic ICT environment, with an exciting, fast-paced pipeline of work
- Wellington based, permanent position
- Salary range: $111,477 - $132,417 depending on skills and experience

**Tēnei tūranga - About the Role**:
Reporting to the Manager of INZ systems within the Partnerships & Programmes, Services Transformation Team, this position is a specialist position with the purpose of delivering and coordinating solutions for MBIE. The Release and Environments Manager will take ownership of planning and coordinating software and platform releases across multiple workstreams while seeking to continually improve ways of working. The role will work closely with other teams to ensure that environments are kept current and fit for purpose, and processes are reviewed and updated regularly.

**Why work for us?**

At the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), we are a future-focused organisation working to grow a healthy, high-performing New Zealand economy. Our diverse range of functions and international reach means real career pathways within MBIE. We underpin this with development and training, and a culture that enables our people to work to their natural best.

**Ngā pukenga me ngā wheako e hiahiatia ana - Skills and Experience Required**:
**Skills**
- Excellent written and oral communication skills - able to communicate technical information to the understanding of a layperson
- Excellent interpersonal skills - able to influence and persuade, is comfortable championing processes across multiple user groups, adjusts style to needs of audience
- Sound relationship management skills - able to build and maintain effective working relationships
- Strong organisational skills - able to prioritise and effectively manage competing demands without any loss of quality or service
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

**Experience**
- 5+ years’ experience in Release and Environment management including modern deployment practices using Azure Services, Pipelines, Containers, and Service Virtualisation, as well as on-Prem processes
- Experience with automation and integrating workflows an advantage
- Has demonstrated experience in working and integrating with SaaS products
- Experience in Cloud Tenancy Modelling and Management
- A curious mind and a desire to learn about technical innovations and how they may be applied to the MBIE environment
- Agile and DevOps delivery methodology/experience is desired

**Pre-requisites**
- A tertiary qualification, relevant IT certification or equivalent experience
- You must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand

**Ētahi kōrero mō MBIE - About MBIE**:
MBIE's goal is to create a resilient and high-performing economy that delivers real and ongoing quality of life for all New Zealanders.

We do this by working with others to create an environment that supports businesses to be more productive and internationally competitive, enables all New Zealanders to participate in the economy through improved job opportunities and by working to ensure quality housing is more affordable.

People are at the heart of our mahi, our way of working is guided by our values which shape our behaviours.
- Mahi Tahi - Better Together
- Māia - Bold and brave
- Pae Kahurangi - Build our Future
- Pono Me Te Tika - Own It

Our aspirations are echoed in our Māori identity - Hīkina Whakatutuki - which broadly means ‘lifting to make successful'.

MBIE recognises the partnership founded under Te Tiriti o Waitangi between Māori and the Crown and is committed to giving effect to Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We will do this through enduring, meaningful and effective partnerships with iwi, Māori, other Māori groups/organisations and the Crown, as this is critical to enable economic and social development, both for Māori and for wider Aotearoa New Zealand. We are committed to continuing to partner with iwi in order to find new sustainable solutions to address long standing systemic and cross-cutting issues facing Māori and wider Aotearoa New Zealand and we are also committed to identifying opportunities for iwi to lead and creating an enabling environment for iwi to leverage these opportunities.

E mōhio ana a Hīkina Whakatutuki i puea ake te kōtuinga I waenganui i a ngāi Māori me te Karauna i Te Tiriti o Waitangi, ā, kei te whai ia ki te whakaū ake i Te Tiriti o Waitangi. Mā te whai kiko o ngā kōtuinga ahungaroa o ngāi wi, o ngāi Māori, me ētahi atu rōpū Māori ki te Karauna, katutuki tēnei. He āhuatanga nui tēnei e āhei ai ngā mahi whanaketanga ā-ohanga, ā-pāpori hoki ki a ngāi Māori me Aotearoa whānui. E whai tonu ana mātou ki te kōtui atu ki ngā iwi mō te rapu huarahi hou ki te whakaar



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