Environment Manager

Description: Environment Manager Role Profile

Role Purpose

The Environment Manager is responsible for the planning, provision, governance, and operational management of all non-production and production environments required to support program delivery. The role ensures environments are available, stable, secure, and aligned to delivery schedules, enabling successful development, testing, migration, rehearsal, and deployment activities.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Strategy & Planning: Define and maintain the programme environment strategy and roadmap (based on the Infrastructure High Level Design); develop environment plans aligned to project milestones and release schedules; forecast capacity and resource requirements.

Environment Governance: Establish policies, standards, and processes; maintain environment inventory and configuration baselines; ensure compliance with security and audit requirements.

Environment Provisioning & Maintenance: Coordinate provisioning, configuration, refreshes, restores, backups, monitoring, access management and decommissioning activities. Environment health validation post regular patching/maintenance activities.

Data Management: Coordinate test data provisioning, refreshes, masking, anonymisation, and GDPR compliance.

Incident & Service Management: Act as escalation point for environment-related issues; manage incident resolution and continuous improvement activities.

Stakeholder Management: Provide reporting, manage communications, and build relationships across delivery teams, suppliers, and leadership.

Key Deliverables

• Environment Strategy
• Environment Roadmap
• Environment Health Reports
• Environment Risk and Issue Logs
• Environment Capacity Plans
• Environment Support Model

Essential Skills & Experience

Proven Experience managing complex environments across large transformation programmes.

Strong understanding of infrastructure, databases, networks, and Middleware.

Experience supporting multi-environment software delivery life cycles.

Experience working in Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery models.

Excellent stakeholder management, planning, and organisational skills.

Prioritise effectively considering both program delivery and operational demands.

Desirable Experience

Financial Services sector Experience.

Experience with DevOps tooling and automated deployment pipelines.

Experience supporting large-scale data migration programmes.

Experience with cyber security best practices and related tooling.

SQL Server (including SSMS, SSIS, SSRS), MSMQ, Informatica, Windows Server.

Contract Details

Contract Type: Full-Time

Duration: 3 August 2026 - 27 August 2027 (initial forecast

Skills

• Cyber Security Protocols
• Data Governance
• Data Protection
• Network Virtualisation
• Vmware
• Storage
• PAM
• CyberArk
• SQL Server
• Infrastructure
• Microsoft tech stack

Job Title: Environment Manager

Location: Edinburgh, UK

Rate/Salary: 450.00 - 525.00 GBP Daily

Job Type: Contract