Release and Environment Lead

Working with the AA | Me mahi tahi tatou ki AA For over 120 years the AA have been helping Kiwis on their adventures! Today, we're one of New Zealand's most respected and trusted brands. From our humble beginnings as a motoring enthusiast's club, the New Zealand AA (Automobile Association) has grown into a large, dynamic organisation offering many services and products to more than a million Members We're expanding our Platform Engineering team and looking for a Release & Environment Lead to play a key role in how we deliver technology across the AA What You'll Be Doing | Mō te Tūranga In this role, you’ll take ownership of how our platforms, systems, and infrastructure are released and managed across the development lifecycle. You’ll be responsible for planning and coordinating software and infrastructure deployments, ensuring environments are stable, well-maintained, and aligned with testing and delivery needs You’ll play a key role in leading release execution across multiple projects and managing a complex, evolving environment landscape to support consistent, reliable delivery

• Manage environment planning and usage across development, testing, and pre-production stage

• Collaborate with developers, testers, and business stakeholders to align release timelines and activities

• Ensure systems are deployed smoothly and consistently, with minimal disruption to operations

• Maintain visibility of multiple releases and environments, resolving conflicts and managing dependencies

• Drive process improvements to optimise release workflows and environment reliability

About You | Mōu You have strong, hands-on experience in release management, with a proven ability to plan and coordinate complex software and infrastructure releases. You understand how important well-managed releases are for ensuring stability and a smooth experience for users. You’ve worked across both Agile and Waterfall delivery environments and thrive in collaborative, cross-functional teams

• Strong knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, deployment tools (e.g. Bitbucket, Azure DevOps), and version control systems like Git

• Familiarity with monitoring and alerting tools (e.g. Datadog)

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, able to work across technical and non-technical teams

• Hands-on experience with incident response and post-incident reviews

• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

What We Offer | Ngā āhuatanga kei a mātou

• Free AA Membership for you and your whānau

• NZAA Super Scheme with 2% employer contributions on top of 3% Kiwisaver

• A day off for your birthday

• Hybrid working arrangement

• Training available / career development

• Enhanced parental leave options

• Discounted insurance

Our teams celebrate diversity and believe that everyone should be able to bring their true selves to work every day. We want you to feel comfortable to be your authentic self throughout the recruitment process, please feel free to let us know if there is anything you need to allow you to participate equitably. We are aware that there will be candidates who are interested in the role but may only feel comfortable to apply if they have ticked all the boxes. We want you to know that if you feel like you don't meet all the requirements, please still get in touch. We'd love to korero to see if you might be a great fit for the role.