Senior Release Engineer

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Job Description

Senior Release Engineer

Location: Australia [Preferably Melbourne/Sydney] | Hybrid
Job Description
Get To Know Us:

SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial services and software for the financial services and healthcare industries. Headquartered in Windsor, Connecticut, SS&C operates in over 90 offices across 35 countries, supporting more than 18,000 organisations worldwide.
Why You Will Love It Here!

• Flexibility: Hybrid work model
• Your Future: Income protection insurance & salary continuance
• Work/Life Balance: Competitive leave and wellbeing benefits
• Your Wellbeing: Health insurance discounts, parental leave, and insurance coverage
• Diversity & Inclusion: Inclusive workplace committed to diversity
• Training: Continuous development including SS&C University
• Extra Perks: Corporate discounts on fitness, travel, and more

What You Will Get To Do:

• Own and manage the end-to-end release lifecycle across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Lead release planning cycles including calendars, cutover planning, and deployment readiness assessments.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to ensure alignment and successful delivery of release commitments.
• Conduct release risk assessments and enforce governance and change management controls.
• Oversee incident management, post-release validation, and continuous improvement actions.
• Act as the escalation point for release blockers, environment constraints, and conflicting priorities.
• Drive standardisation, optimisation, and automation of release processes and tooling.
• Provide clear communication and reporting on release status, risks, and impacts.
• Lead governance forums and represent Release Management in CAB meetings.

What You Will Bring:

• Extensive experience in Release Management, DevOps, or technical delivery roles.
• Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration management practices.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-stream enterprise releases.
• Experience with governance frameworks, risk management, and change controls.
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Ability to remain calm and decisive during high-pressure release windows.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Prior Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience with cloud platforms, enterprise infrastructure, and security controls.
• Exposure to environment governance, versioning, and release automation.
• Experience supporting audit, regulatory, and operational risk requirements.
• Background in high-paced, regulated enterprise environments.
• Experience mentoring or coaching junior release managers.

SS&C is committed to creating an inclusive workforce and encourages applications from people of all backgrounds.

To apply, please visit our careers page at www.ssctech.com/careers

Unless explicitly requested or approached by SS&C Technologies, Inc. or any of its affiliated companies, the company will not accept unsolicited resumes from headhunters, recruitment agencies, or fee-based recruitment services.

SS&C Technologies is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant for employment or employee on the basis of race, color, religious creed, gender, age, marital status, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other classification protected by applicable discrimination laws.", "salary_raw": "Row(double=None, string=None)"}