Release and Environments Manager

We're in the middle of an exciting business transformation journey at MAS so we can work smarter and deliver better results to our Members.

As the Release and Environment Manager, you'll be responsible for overseeing the technical release, delivery, configuration and management of non-production environments (On-prem and Cloud), ensuring their stability, suitability and efficiency.

This role will act as the central governance and co-ordination point for technical release activities across both BAU and a complex technical change programme, and will require working closely with internal teams, vendors and relevant stakeholders across the organisation to ensure seamless provisioning, environment readiness and sequencing across environment, deployment and release activities.

If you have expert level experience in planning, executing, and managing software releases in a complex, high change organisation we would love to hear from you.

This is a 12-month fixed term position.

**What your day might look like**
- Developing MAS Non-Production Environment Strategy and being responsible for the Environment delivery
- Developing Enterprise Release Management Strategy for the MAS non-production environments including the controls and processes required to successfully implement
- Support development of Test Data Strategy for sourcing, creation and use of data in non-production environments
- Design, build, configure and govern non-production environments across cloud and on-premise platforms
- Co-ordinate complex cross-workstream deployments
- Maintain a central repository of environment documentation, access credentials and configurations
- Maintain and co-ordinate a release retrofit schedule ensuring all environments are maintained at the correct code and configuration levels
- Manage and optimise DevOps activities, including release pipelines and automation
- Work with Programme and Enterprise resources to ensure the deployment, test and release sequencing activities and dependencies are clearly communicated and understood

**What we're looking for**
- Enterprise release and environment management experience in a complex setting where there is a regular cadence of significant releases with meaningful impact
- Proven experience leading technical release and deployment activities in complex, integrated environments where there is a blend of legacy Tech and newer cloud based SAAS solutions
- Governance and oversight of all deployment activities into non-Production environments
- Proficiency in/familiarity with Azure DevOps, Azure Data Factory, automated pipelines, Atlassian
- Strong understanding of software development life cycle, release management and deployment processes
- Governance and delivery of adequate and correct non-production environments for Programme testing and acceptance activities to take place across a complex, multi parallel stream change environment
- Proven experience in a similar senior level role, where you have been responsible for overseeing the technical release, delivery, configuration and management of non-production environments
- Experience with Release Management tools and processes, as well as proficiency in using tools for release planning, tracking, and deployment

**About us**

We're a New Zealand-owned insurance and investment company with a difference. As a mutual we're owned by our Members and we make meaningful contributions to our community through our charitable foundation. We're a small company where you get to have a big impact.

At MAS you'll join a team that's:

- Motivated to make a difference
- Focused on achieving big things for our Members and building a better mutual
- Led by our values of Make a difference, In it together and Own it, do it
- Supportive and inclusive - everyone is valued for what they bring
- Looked after with a range of benefits including Health and Life insurance and 6% KiwiSaver