DBS delivers a broad range of services to Defence, supported by the Chief Information Officer (CIO) Enabling Pillar. Release and Environments Management is part of Change Delivery Services within CIO.
DBS has recently gone through a transition phase of moving Human Resources and Payroll application platforms to Oracle Cloud which has introduced new ways of working and managing future changes, releases, and manageability of environments which this role will be heavily involved in.
The main duties are:
Ensure integrity of environments to enable all software changes to be successfully deployed.
Forecasting overtime requirements, organising the staff requirements for each release to the satisfaction of the customers and technical staff.
Acting as the Environments and Release Subject Matter Expert at various meetings.
Ensuring all governance documentation is kept up to date.
Working in the Oracle Cloud environments.
Planning and forward planning for releases by working with various other departments to ensure the deadlines are met.
Being part of the release process by helping deploy the changes into the different environments