Company Description

Company Description

Test Environment Manager
12m FTC based in Sydney, Hybrid working pattern
ASAP Start, extension of 12m highly likely

Let’s create a more sociable future together.

Endeavour Group is Australiaʼs largest retail drinks network under the Dan Murphyʼs and BWS brands. We also run the country's largest portfolio of licensed hotels. Endeavour Group demerged from Woolworths in 2021 and as part of the transition is taking the opportunity to transform how we operate as an independent business and establish supporting technology.

Job Description

Be uniquely you, come as you are
Bring your passion and feel the energy

Purpose of role:

The Test Environment Manager is responsible for the end-to-end management, governance, and coordination of the Non-Production environments required for our strategic Data program. This critical role ensures that the complex, dual-landscape testing environments - spanning both the new Endeavour Data Platform on GCP and the legacy Data Platform (including integrated systems); are stable, integrated, secure, and data-ready to support the program's transition timelines.

This role will strategically manage the environments for the program/ projects, ensuring seamless data flow between the legacy data platform and Endeavour (EGL) new data platform, managing dependencies for data refreshes, and ensuring strict adherence to data security and PII masking policies.

Sound good? Read on.

Here is a taster of what you can expect in this role:

Environment Strategy & Governance:

Develop and execute a comprehensive Test Environment Management Strategy specifically for the Data Program, bridging the gap between the legacy Data Platform and the new Data Platform
Define and enforce environment standards for the new EGL DEV, TEST, and UAT environments
Collaborate with Architecture, Data Privacy and Security teams to ensure environments adhere to the three-layer architecture and strict security/access controls.

Environment Management:

Oversee the setup, configuration and maintenance of IT environments, including development, testing, staging and production.
Develop and maintain the program environment strategy aligned to Endeavour Group standards and governance frameworks.
Define program environment lifecycle processes covering creation, configuration, refresh, maintenance and decommissioning.
Implement and enforce environment standards and configurations to ensure consistency, reliability and alignment to business requirements.
Monitor and optimize environment usage to ensure efficient resource allocation.
Coordinate environment usage ensuring conflicts are identified and resolved proactively.
Ensure alignment with organisational architecture, security, compliance and operational requirements.
Develop and implement strategies for environment management to support project and operational needs.
Plan for environment provisioning, capacity management and lifecycle management.
Monitor and optimize environment performance to ensure high availability, reliability and efficiency.
Implement and maintain environment monitoring tools and practices.
Oversee environment health monitoring, dashboards, issue resolution, and continuous improvement activities.
Act as the primary contact for all program environment-related matters and manage dependencies across programs/projects
Coordinate the schedule and availability of legacy UAT and PRE-PROD environments to ensure they are available to feed data into new environments as per the program testing schedule.
Manage communication regarding Data Feed Timeliness and SLAs, ensuring upstream data from legacy is available for ingestion into the new platform
Collaborate with development, testing, and BAU Squad teams to plan and schedule application and platform releases across various test environments.
Manage changes to Test environments, including deployments, patches and upgrades.
Address and resolve environment-related incidents and problems, including and implement corrective actions to prevent recurrence.

Deployment Automation:

Develop and maintain automated deployment processes to streamline the release of applications and platforms.
Work with DevOps teams to implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.

Risk, Security and Compliance Management:

Ensure IT environments are secure and comply with the organisational policies and regulatory requirements
Implement and enforce security measures and access controls
Identify and assess potential risks associated with releases and implement mitigation strategies.
Perform risk analysis to minimize the impact of releases on production systems.

Documentation and Reporting:

Maintain comprehensive environment documentation, diagrams, and runbooks.
Provide regular reporting on environment availability, usage, risks, issues, and performance metrics.

Communication and Collaboration:

Foster effective communication and collaboration between development, testing, infrastructure and operations teams during the release process.
Ensure stakeholders are informed of environment status, release progress, changes and any potential issues.
Manage relationships with external service providers related to environment management.
Stay up-to-date with industry best practices and trends in environment management and release automation.
Proactively identify areas for process improvement and implement changes to enhance efficiency and reliability.

Training and Support:

Provide guidance and support to team members and other stakeholders on environment-related issues and best practices.
Conduct training sessions to improve understanding of environment management processes

Qualifications

Mindset & Personal Attributes:

Resilient: Remains composed and solution-focused when facing critical path blockages or external data delays .
Pragmatic: Balances architectural ideals with practical testing needs to unblock SIT and UAT teams quickly .
Data Security-First: Instinctively prioritizes PII protection and access controls in all environment decisions .
Proactive: Seeks to understand end-to-end data lineage to identify and mitigate conflicts early.

Competency:

Strategic Planning: Translates high-level architecture into actionable environment roadmaps supporting parallel runs and transitions .
Technical Translation: Converts complex infrastructure needs (GCP, Airflow, Connectivity) into clear engineering deliverables .
Cross-Domain Integration: Manages hybrid environments spanning legacy on-prem systems and modern Cloud (GCP) platforms.
Data-Driven Insight: Uses observability tools (Dynatrace) to drive platform stability and performance improvements.

Experience & Achievements:

Cloud Transformation: Managed test environments for major migrations involving GCP and BigQuery.
Scale Data Management: Delivered TDM strategies for massive datasets, including automated masking.
Complex Transitions: Successfully navigated corporate demergers or separations with heavy legacy dependencies.
Hybrid Operations: Operated dual-landscape environments consuming production data from external third parties.

Experience & technical requirements:

Essential:

Experience in environment management, release management, or related roles within an IT or software development environment.
Strong knowledge of environment and release management methodologies and best practices.
Worked within a similar sized enterprise in a business/customer facing role
Strong relationship management.
Previous experience within Service integrator/vendor space.

Desirable:

Previous experience in retail industry
Service management frameworks (ITSM)
Experience with observability tools such as Dynatrace.
Certifications in Cloud (GCP Associate/Professional) or Service Management (ITIL).

Additional Information

The benefits are good too!

We offer flexible working in every sense.

An exclusive discount card for BWS, Dan Murphy’s, Woolworths, BIG W and other Endeavour Group brands, including our ALH pubs

Monthly meeting-free days

Your health and wellbeing is your most important asset, and as one of our valued team members, it’s our first priority. You will have a range of free services to help you live well and support your physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Endeavour Group is full of opportunities - use our dedicated learning and development options to grow an idea, yourself, and your career. This is just the start, so dream big.

At Endeavour, we value being a workplace where everyone’s welcome - if you meet a number of the requirements (and not all), we encourage you to apply.

Additional Info:

We are together creators

With a portfolio that includes Dan Murphy’s, BWS, ALH Hotels, Pinnacle Drinks and more, Endeavour Group is big on sociability. Together we create the moments that bring millions of people together. And together we have more fun, create more opportunities, and score a lot more goals. We’re serious about creating a safe, inclusive and fun place to rock up to where equal opportunity is key, and flexibility is part of how we roll.

We’re all about creating a more sociable future - for our customers and each other. If this job excites you - and you’re close-enough on the requirements, reach out, we’d love to hear from you.

You can learn more about working with us on LinkedIn or at endeavourgroupcareers.com.au.

Our Talent Team and Hiring Leaders kindly request no unsolicited resumes or approaches from Recruitment Agencies. Endeavour Group is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.

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