Contract Role | Queensland Government | Brisbane Based
We’re seeking an experienced Release Coordinator to join a Queensland Government team on a contract basis. This role will see you coordinate end-to-end release activities across a complex project or program environment, ensuring deployments and environment readiness are delivered in a controlled and repeatable way with minimal disruption to business operations.
Working closely with project, technical, business and vendor stakeholders, you’ll manage release schedules, oversee environment readiness, support governance processes and coordinate successful deployments into business-as-usual operations.
Key responsibilities
- Develop and maintain integrated release schedules aligned to project timelines and business priorities
- Coordinate release scope, sequencing, dependencies, freeze periods and go/no-go decisions
- Manage environment readiness across Development, SIT, UAT, Pre-Production and Production
- Coordinate deployment activities including runbooks, cutover plans, rollback strategies and release communications
- Support change records, CAB submissions, approvals and governance requirements
- Ensure testing evidence, security reviews, defect thresholds and operational readiness checks are completed
- Provide clear status updates, forward schedules and risk/issue reporting to stakeholders
- Identify and manage risks, issues, dependencies and scheduling conflicts
- Contribute to continuous improvement of release and environment management processes
- Demonstrated experience coordinating releases, deployments or environment management in a large, complex organisation
- Strong planning, scheduling and organisational skills, with the ability to manage multiple concurrent activities
- Experience managing risks, dependencies and stakeholder communications across cross-functional teams
- Working knowledge of change control and service management practices such as ITIL
- Experience supporting testing cycles including SIT and UAT
- Familiarity with Agile delivery and modern release practices including CI/CD
- Strong documentation, problem-solving and communication skills
- Experience working in a government or regulated environment
- Experience supporting enterprise-wide system or platform implementations
- Experience working across multiple environments within formal release governance frameworks
