Environment Manager

• Play a key role in ensuring the stability, readiness, and success of our technology environments
• Work across multiple business and technology teams
• Permanent role, 5 weeks leave + a suite of benefits

Te whiwhinga mahi - Our opportunity
Kāinga Ora is looking for an experienced and collaborative Environment Manager to lead the planning, coordination, and ongoing maintenance of Kāinga Ora's non-production technology environments. This is an exciting opportunity to ensure environments are available, fit for purpose, and aligned with delivery and operational requirements.
As a trusted advisor and technical leader, you will provide guidance on environment management practices, coordinate environment activities across the delivery lifecycle, and support production environment maintenance where required. The Environment Manager will partner closely with delivery, testing, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure environments are available and ready to support project and operational needs. Collaboration with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure effective planning and utilisation of environments is a key focus of this role.
You will also mentor, coach, and support members of the Release team, promoting knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Ngā pūmanawatanga ōu - What you will bring
As our Environment Manager you will enjoy working across multiple teams to deliver successful outcomes. You bring a strong customer focus, a continuous improvement mindset, and the leadership skills needed to guide others while ensuring environments are well managed, reliable, and ready to support business and technology delivery.

Here’s what you will bring to the role:
We're looking for an experienced Environment Manager who combines strong technical knowledge with exceptional planning, coordination, and stakeholder management skills.
To be successful in this role, you'll have:

• Experience working in large, complex technology environments, ideally within the public sector, with a strong focus on scheduling, coordination, and delivery management
• Advanced knowledge of environment management frameworks, methodologies, controls, and best practices
• Solid understanding of release management, change management, and incident management processes
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to develop effective partnerships across technology teams, stakeholders, and business units
• Excellent judgement, discretion, and the ability to remain calm and effective when managing competing priorities and tight deadlines
• The ability to balance strategic thinking with a keen attention to detail, ensuring high levels of accuracy and quality
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues

This role requires flexibility to work outside normal business hours when required to support critical environment and release activities.

Nōu te rourou - What's in it for you?
We offer competitive salaries, five weeks' annual leave and a benefits package including a range of insurances, flexible working arrangements and career development. These benefits are described in more detail here https://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz/a-great-place-to-work/benefits
As a Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities employee, we want to make sure that you have all the tools and support you need. We want to ensure you are healthy and have work-life balance. We also want to support and grow your personal and career development through on-the-job learning, training courses, secondments and study opportunities.

Mō mātou - Our Organisation
At Kāinga Ora, ours is the important responsibility of transforming New Zealand’s housing choices, outcomes and the entire housing sector by creating homes and communities that allow New Zealanders to thrive.
What is exciting about working for Kāinga Ora is getting the chance to make a real and positive impact on New Zealanders’ lives. With skills, planning and purposeful action, our people are creating the homes and neighbourhoods that will build the future of Aotearoa.
We are passionate about transforming New Zealand for the better. That includes being a trusted partner for Māori and iwi, protecting and enabling their rights, interests and aspirations under the guidance of Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

Ō tātou uara - Our values
Our values were developed by us, for us. They unite us as an organisation and guide how we work every day. Our values are:
• Manaakitanga – People at the Heart
• Mahi Tahi – Better Together
• Whanake – Be Bold

Tūhono mai - Join us
To view the position description and apply for this role, please follow the online process via http://careers.kaingaora.govt.nz. Please note: all applicants, including existing employees, need to follow this process. If you have any questions about this role, please contact kaingaora.recruit@kaingaora.govt.nz.
Applications close Tuesday 8th September at 11:55pm
We value diversity and are committed to working with each other and our customers in an inclusive and respectful way. We welcome applicants from all walks of life and appreciate the richness of experience that your point of difference brings to the organisation.
If you don’t tick all the boxes in this listing but think that you could be a great fit based on your unique background and skillset, we would welcome an application from you. Don’t hesitate, as we may review applications as they are received and reserve the right to close advertising early.