Manager, Environment and Release

• Ongoing full-time position
• Drive seamless, high-quality releases that keep critical IT services running smoothly
• Design, maintain and manage a portfolio of environment that underpin the election ecosystem
• Be part of a high performing IT team supporting election functions, providing technical leadership and best practice in environment and release management.

About the Role

The Manager, Environment and Release provides leadership and operational oversight across environment and release management processes, tools and planning to support the delivery of business objectives. The role ensures the integrity, availability and provisioning of all technology environments, and enables timely and controlled releases across teams and projects, balancing the delivery of releases with the stability of critical services for the organisation. It plays an essential role in managing the preparation, configuration and financial sustainability of environments for the Commission, in particular for time-critical election event.

The role is Ongoing Full-time position.

About the NSW Electoral Commission

The New South Wales Electoral Commission delivers trusted and independent systems, processes, oversight and engagement that support democracy in New South Wales. Our vision is to maintain confidence in the integrity of the democratic process and make it easy for people to understand and participate.

Our work includes:

• Running and regulating elections
• Communicating and engaging with current and future voters, key NSW community stakeholders and NSW election participants; and
• Investigating possible offences and enforcing electoral and lobbying laws such as the Electoral Act 2017 and the Electoral Funding Act 2018.

What we offer

• Opportunity to work on large scale events and assist your local community
• Career development opportunities through study and face to face training
• Access to self-paced expert-led training via LinkedIn Learning
• Employee Assistance Program for wellbeing support
• Staff social events to connect with colleagues
• Work/Life balance (35 hour working week), flex leave, generous holidays and leave conditions
• Access to Fitness Passport for eligible staff
• Free annual flu vaccination
• Convenient CBD location, access to public transport

Key knowledge, experience and essential requirements

As the successful candidate, you will have:

• Extensive experience in environment and release management, including managing releases for multiple applications, maintaining enterprise-wide release calendars and environment management plans, coordinating across multiple technology and business teams, and governing the path to production.
• Demonstrated leadership experience, including managing technical staff, sharing best practice and knowledge and fostering a high-performing team culture.
• Proven experience with Azure DevOps, Azure AD, GitHub or similar code repositories and associated automated build and release pipelines, including strong knowledge of modern CI/CD principles and tools.
• Demonstrated understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) and ITIL frameworks and processes, particularly in relation to release management.
• Financial acumen – ensuring costs associated with multiple environments are managed well to maximise value.
• Strong risk management capability – understanding of technical and business risks, how they are effectively managed, documented and reduced.
• Politically neutral with no affiliation to political parties or lobbyists/campaigners.
• Satisfactory criminal record check result.

How to apply

As part of your application, you will be asked to respond to the two targeted questions:

1. Describe a situation where you successfully managed a complex release involving multiple applications and teams. How did you ensure release quality, minimise risk, and maintain stakeholder alignment? (max 300 words)
2. Provide an example of how you have driven process improvements or implemented change in a team or organisation. What strategies did you use to gain buy-in and ensure successful adoption? (max 300 words)

You should include a covering letter summarising your skills, knowledge and work experience, along with an up-to-date resume which clearly detail your skills and experience as relevant to this role.

For further information regarding the role please download the Role Description

Applying for a role in the NSW Public Service

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The NSW Electoral Commission embraces diversity and inclusion and is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the population of New South Wales. We welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds and encourage women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, people with disability, mature-age people, and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply for this role.

If you have any questions about applying or would benefit from an adjustment to the recruitment process to help you perform your best please contact For more information on recruitment adjustments visit I Work for NSW Adjustments for individual needs.

Applications received and completed after closing time will not be considered for selection.

The selection process will include a range of assessment techniques to assist in determining your suitability for the role.

For further information, contact NSW Electoral Commission's Talent team on

Other Information

Your employment will be subject to National Criminal Records Check to determine your suitability for employment.

The NSW Electoral Commission is committed to maintaining public confidence in the integrity of the electoral system. The Commission requires all its employees to refrain from membership of any political party and from engaging in political activity which could be seen as reflecting adversely on the strict political neutrality of the Commission. To maintain political neutrality, applicants for roles with the Commission who are, who have been or who may be perceived to be or have been connected with political activities may also be ineligible for appointment and should disclose such information as part of their application. This does not include voting in a Commonwealth, State or Local Government election, which is compulsory in NSW.  The Commission's Political Neutrality Policy may be viewed on its website.

A talent pool may be created from this recruitment action for ongoing and temporary roles of the same work classification that may become available for filling over the next 18 months.

This role is based in at our Elizabeth Street, Sydney office and during election events you will be required to work from other venues.

Applications Close: Monday 1st December 2025 @ 11.59pm