Release Manager (City of Knox)

Benefits and Culture
- Accrue up to an extra 12 days of leave per year through our Life Days program.
- Work with a world‑leading technology business at the forefront of innovation.
- We’re a ‘Family Friendly’ certified workplace – actively supporting diverse roles within team members’ family settings. Do Work That Matters Leidos Australia delivers IT and airborne solutions that protect and advance the Australian way of life. Our 2,000 local experts, backed by our global experience and network of partners, are working to solve the world’s toughest challenges in government, intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection and health markets. Your New Role And Responsibilities The Release Manager is accountable for planning, coordinating, governing, and executing all release activities across the sustainment program, including maintaining the end‑to‑end release schedule, ensuring that all technical teams’ work is appropriately sequenced, assessed, and authorised prior to deployment. The role is a key participant of the Change Advisory Board (CAB), including process definition, governance, stakeholder engagement, decision tracking, and alignment to ASDEFCON mandated governance structures. Supporting a shared services model across a multi‑system sustainment environment, release coordination is critical to operational stability and mission outcomes. This role ensures that all release activities are visible, controlled, and approved, governance bodies receive accurate technical insight for decision‑making, risk is minimised through rigorous planning and stakeholder alignment, and the customer receives predictable, transparent, and auditable release performance.
- Own end‑to‑end release planning and delivery across multiple mission systems and environments.
- Lead Change and Release governance, including chairing the CAB when required, defining and maturing CAB processes, managing emergency changes, and ensuring ASDEFCON‑aligned compliance, auditability, and traceability.
- Coordinate cross‑system dependencies and constraints, ensuring impacts, risks, resources, environmental limitations, and operational events are fully understood and reflected in release decisions.
- Act as the central liaison for release activities, connecting Engineering, Maintenance, Security, Help Desk, PMO, Operating Support, and external stakeholders, and providing transparent communication on risks, decisions and outcomes.
- Drive release readiness and quality, confirming testing evidence, documentation, deployment and rollback plans, operational acceptance, and linkage to approved change tickets.
- Continuously improve release performance and maturity, producing release metrics and reports, facilitating lessons learned, supporting long‑term roadmaps, and identifying opportunities for automation and efficiency uplift. What You’ll Bring To Make An Impact
- Proven experience managing releases in complex ICT environments, coordinating multiple technical teams, dependencies, and competing priorities across large backlogs and operational demands.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence at all levels and confidently chair cross‑functional technical and governance forums, including CABs.
- Solid grounding in ITIL change and release management, with hands‑on experience governing structured CAB processes and high‑risk changes.
- Highly structured and detail‑oriented, with strong analytical and scheduling capability and a focus on compliance, auditability, and traceability.
- Experience in secure or regulated environments (defence, intelligence, or similar), including familiarity with ASDEFCON governance, reporting, and audit requirements (highly desirable).
- Technically fluent and collaborative, with an engineering background or exposure to complex system dependencies and ITSM tools such as Jira, ServiceNow, or equivalent. This role requires the successful applicant to be an Australian Citizen and hold an active TSPV Clearance, accompanied by the ability to be successful for a DISA/OSA. Equal Opportunity All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws. #J-18808-Ljbffr Apply on Kit Job: kitjobau.com/job/3rbb33