Release and Environments Manager

Tēnei tūranga – About the role

Reporting to the Head of Digital & Programmes - Immigration NZ, this position is a specialist position with the purpose of delivering and co-ordinating solutions for MBIE. The Release and Environments Manager will take ownership of planning and co-ordinating software and platform releases across multiple workstreams while seeking to continually improve ways of working. The role will work closely with other teams to ensure that environments are kept current and fit for purpose, and processes are reviewed and updated regularly.

Ngā herenga – Requirements of the role

Personal specifications

• 5+ years’ experience in Release and Environment management including modern deployment practices using Azure Services, Pipelines, Containers, and Service Virtualisation, as well as on-Prem processes.
• Experience with automation and integrating workflows.
• Has demonstrated experience in working and integrating with SaaS products.
• Experience of data migration between environments and data masking.
• Experience in Cloud Tenancy Modelling and Management.
• A curious mind and a desire to learn about technical innovations and how they may be applied to the MBIE environment.
• A willingness to learn skills in new technology to achieve a common goal.
• Presentation skills with the ability to effectively present and point of view to a variety of audiences.
• An analytical mind who can make connections between various aspects of the organisation and can contribute to a cohesive approach across all aspects of a technology-enabled business.
• Ability to quickly establish and build strong working relationships and develop trust, credibility, buy-in and collaboration with managers, staff, vendors and other stakeholders.
• Ability to work under pressure and with deadlines while taking ownership of a task and seeing it through.
• Ability to multitask and prioritise workload.
• Credit check required (yes/no)
• Required to drive (yes/no)
• Police vetting (yes/no)

Qualifications

• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent knowledge, skills, and experience.
• Agile and DevOps delivery methodology/experience is desired.
• Must have the legal right to live and work in New Zealand.

Takohanga tuhinga o mua – Key accountabilities and deliverables

Technology Outcomes

• Design and implement release processes using modern deployment techniques.
• Develop guidelines and educate teams on expectations when releasing.
• Actively seek out opportunities to improve the overall service of the release process.
• Baseline key metrics related to Release and Environments and seek to improve on them.
• Ensure that delivery teams do not have elongated times for using environments.
• Actively seek to produce value by building the right thing to provide the right business outcomes.
• Defining best-practice standards around releases and DevOps practices to key external vendors.
• Provide quality assurance checks and balances across deliverables at varying stages of the delivery cycle
• Work in partnership with internal customers advising them on how to use the platform enabling them to meet their business needs, resolve problems, and help them understand technical concepts as needed
• Produce detailed design documentation as required
• Engage and work alongside vendors to achieve a common outcome in the interests of MBIE
• Collaborate with external software vendors, product owners, lead architects and vendors to build out the capabilities on development and DevOps internally at MBIE
• Find effective ways to improve the responsiveness and flexibility of solutions which empowers our business users and the wider MBIE
• Ensure stakeholders are experiencing gains – through increased availability of useful best industry practice methodologies you and your team are creating
• Ensure you and the wider team are adding value to the wider Ministry by genuinely taking ownership of the systems it designs and delivers.

Stakeholder Management

• Ensure relationships with your peers, your stakeholders and your leaders are productive, communication is professional, clear, and timely. Your conversations are robust, and trust is created.
• Build networks and work collaboratively with key internal and external stakeholders, acting as a representative of the branch where appropriate.
• Build and maintain effective relationships and partnerships with national and international organisations to identify and share best practice information and to promote the Ministry, its products and services.
• Tests the effectiveness of stakeholder relationships using a range of appropriate measures and processes (including stakeholder feedback).

Action Orientated

• Takes responsibility for own work.
• Self-starter.
• Seeks input if required.
• Recognises and acts on opportunities.

Wellbeing, health & safety

• Displays commitment through actively supporting all safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Ensures own and others safety at all times.
• Complies with relevant safety and wellbeing policies, procedures, safe systems of work and event reporting.
• Reports all incidents/accidents, including near misses in a timely fashion.
• Is involved in health and safety through participation and consultation.

Tō tūranga i roto i te Manatū – Your place in the Ministry

The Release and Environments Manager position reports into the Head of Digital & Programmes - Immigration NZ within the Strategy, Technology and Security branch. The branch sits within the Corporate and Digital Shared Services group.

More information about MBIE’s structure

To mātou aronga – What we do for Aotearoa New Zealand

Hīkina Whakatutuki is the te reo Māori name for the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment. Hīkina means to uplift. Whakatutuki means to move forward, to make successful. Our name speaks to our purpose – Grow New Zealand for All.

To Grow New Zealand for All, we put people at the heart of our mahi (work). Based on the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi / The Treaty of Waitangi, we are committed to upholding authentic partnerships with Māori.

• As agile public service leaders, we use our breadth and experience to navigate the ever-changing world.
• We are service providers, policy makers, investors and regulators. We engage with diverse communities, businesses and regions. Our work touches on the daily lives of New Zealanders.
• We grow opportunities (Puāwai), guard and protect (Kaihāpai) and innovate and navigate towards a better future (Auaha).

Ngā matatau – Our competencies

Cultivates innovation We create new and better ways for the organisation to be successful by challenging the status quo generating new and creative ideas and translating them into workable solutions.

Nimble learning We are curious and actively learn through experimentation when tackling new problems by learning as we go when facing new situations and challenges.

Customer focus We build strong customer relationships and deliver customer-centric solutions by listening and gaining insights into the needs of the communities we serve and actively seeking and responding to feedback.

Decision quality We make quality and timely decisions that shape the future for our communities and keep the organisation moving forward by relying on an appropriate mix of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgement to make valid and reliable decisions.

Action oriented We step up, taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with purpose, urgency and discipline by taking responsibility, ownership and action on challenges, and being accountable for the results.

Collaborates We connect, working together to build partnerships with our communities, working collaboratively to meet shared objectives by gaining trust and support of others; actively seeking the views, experiences, and opinions of others and by working co-operatively with others across MBIE, the public sector and external stakeholder groups.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

As an agency of the public service, MBIE has a responsibility to contribute to the Crown meeting its obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Te Tiriti).

Meeting our commitment to Te Tiriti will contribute towards us realising the overall aims of Te Ara Amiorangi – Our Path, Our Direction, and achieve the outcome of Growing New Zealand for All.

The principles of Te Tiriti – including partnership, good faith, and active protection – are at the core of our work.

MBIE is committed to delivering on our obligations as a Treaty partner with authenticity and integrity and to enable Māori interests. We are committed to ensuring that MBIE is well placed to meet our obligations under the Public Service Act 2020 (Te Ao Tūmatanui) to support the Crown in strengthening the Māori/Crown Relationship under the Treaty and to build MBIE’s capability, capacity and cultural intelligence to deliver this.

Mahi i roto i te Ratonga Tūmatanui – Working in the public service

Ka mahitahi mātou o te ratonga tūmatanui kia hei painga mō ngā tāngata o Aotearoa i āianei, ā, hei ngā rā ki tua hoki. He kawenga tino whaitake tā mātou hei tautoko i te Karauna i runga i āna hononga ki a ngāi Māori i raro i te Tiriti o Waitangi. Ka tautoko mātou i te kāwanatanga manapori. Ka whakakotahingia mātou e te wairua whakarato ki ō mātou hapori, ā, e arahina ana mātou e ngā mātāpono me ngā tikanga matua o te ratonga tūmatanui i roto i ā mātou mahi.

In the public service we work collectively to make a meaningful difference for New Zealanders now and in the future. We have an important role in supporting the Crown in its relationships with Māori under the Treaty of Waitangi. We support democratic government. We are unified by a spirit of service to our communities and guided by the core principles and values of the public service in our work.

What does it mean to work in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public Service?(external link) — Te Kawa Mataaho The Public Service Commission