Environment Manager - Automation, DevOps, Architecture
Posted Today by Pioneer Search Ltd
£800 Per day
Outside
Hybrid
London, UK
Summary: The Environment Manager role focuses on overseeing non-production environments within a large-scale financial services organization undergoing a technology transformation. The position emphasizes automation to enhance efficiency and reduce manual processes while managing both modern cloud platforms and legacy systems. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in ensuring the stability and structure of engineering environments. This contract position is set for 12 months and requires a strong background in DevOps and environment management.
Key Responsibilities:
- Take end-to-end ownership of all non-production environments, spanning development, testing, staging and pre-production.
- Create clarity and predictability around environment availability, refresh cycles and usage across multiple delivery streams.
- Act as point of contact for dependencies or incidents arise.
- Identify automation opportunities - replacement of heavy manual processes
- Core relationship with Architecture and DevOps teams to enable automation
- Define and align governance and controls with change and release practices
- Oversight of compliance
- Collaboration across multiple technical teams including testing, Engineering and Delivery teams
- Core stakeholder management acting as the bridge between technical and non-technical audiences
Key Skills:
- Proven experience in an Environment/Release Management role
- SDLC & CI/CD knowledge
- Change Management
- IaC (Terraform)
- Containerisation - Kubernetes
- Azure Cloud
- Deployment tools - ADO (Azure DevOps)/Ansible etc
- Proven experience of bringing structure into complex environments
- Financial Services Industry background
Salary (Rate): £800 per day
City: London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: Other
Detailed Description From Employer:
Environment Manager - Automation, DevOps, Architecture
Contract Length: 12 months
Location: London/Hybrid
Rate: £750-800 per day
IR35 Status: Outside
Evironment Manager urgently needed by a well reknowned Financial Services customer.
I am partnered with a large-scale financial services organisation that are continuing their Technology Transformation and are at a critical point of their journey.
I am seeking an experienced Environment Manager with core experience in bringing core structure and stability, utilising automation to replace manual processes wherever possible.
This role will require a deep background in modern cloud platforms whilst also overseeing Legacy enterprise systems. You will take ownership of how engineering environments are planned, refreshed and managed. The successful candidate will make a significant impact on efficiency by reducing the need for manual processes and instead embed automation and DevOps ways of working.
*Shortlisting to commence w/c 5th May - Please forward your profile for review..*
Role:
- Take end-to-end ownership of all non-production environments, spanning development, testing, staging and pre-production.
- Create clarity and predictability around environment availability, refresh cycles and usage across multiple delivery streams.
- Act as point of contact for dependencies or incidents arise.
- Identify automation opportunities - replacement of heavy manual processes
- Core relationship with Architecture and DevOps teams to enable automation
- Define and align governance and controls with change and release practices
- Oversight of compliance
- Collaboration across multiple technical teams including testing, Engineering and Delivery teams
- Core stakeholder management acting as the bridge between technical and non-technical audiences
Technical Knowledge
- Proven experience in an Environment/Release Management role
- SDLC & CI/CD knowledge
- Change Management
- IaC (Terraform)
- Containerisation - Kubernetes
- Azure Cloud
- Deployment tools - ADO (Azure DevOps)/Ansible etc
- Proven experience of bringing structure into complex environments
- Financial Services Industry background
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