Environments manager (Test)
Posted Today by LA International Computer Consultants Ltd
£650 Per day
Inside
Remote
City of London, UK
Summary: The Environments Manager is tasked with overseeing all test environments throughout the engineering project life cycle, ensuring they are properly configured, maintained, and aligned with project timelines. This role involves monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues in non-production environments while collaborating with development and QA teams. The position requires SC clearance and is primarily remote with occasional travel to London. Candidates with prior high-level security clearance are encouraged to apply.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the life cycle of all test environments (eg Per-SIT, SIT, BEVAL, Performance).
- Monitor all non-production environments for errors, warnings, and performance issues.
- Perform routine maintenance and patching activities.
- Coordinate environment setup and teardown with engineering and infrastructure teams where required.
- Maintain environment configuration documentation and versioning.
- Manage environment bookings and usage schedules.
- Ensure test environments are aligned with production in terms of data and configuration, or differences are known and understood from the baseline.
- Act as the point of contact for environment-related issues and escalations.
- Ensuring that data loads required for testing are in place.
- Investigate and resolve environment-related incidents and service interruptions.
- Collaborate with development and QA teams to support testing and deployment activities.
- Maintain environment stability and uptime to ensure continuous development and testing.
- Document support procedures and maintain a knowledge base of known issues and resolutions.
- Some knowledge on Cerberus E2E.
Key Skills:
- Experience in managing test environments.
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of environment configuration and maintenance.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with engineering and QA teams.
- Familiarity with monitoring tools and practices.
- SC clearance or ability to obtain it.
- Understanding of data management in testing environments.
Salary (Rate): £650 per day
City: City of London
Country: UK
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Environments Manager
Inside IR35
SC clearance
6months initially
Remote with occasional travel to London
Role Summary: The Environment Manager is responsible for overseeing all test environments across the engineering project life cycle. This includes planning, provisioning, configuration, and coordination of environments to ensure they are fit for purpose, available when needed, consistent, stable, and aligned with project timelines. They are also responsible for the health, maintenance, and operational support of all non-production environments. This includes monitoring, troubleshooting, and resolving issues across development, integration, and testing stages.
Key Responsibilities:
Own the life cycle of all test environments (eg Per-SIT, SIT, BEVAL, Performance).
Monitor all non-production environments for errors, warnings, and performance issues.
Perform routine maintenance and patching activities.
Coordinate environment setup and teardown with engineering and infrastructure teams where required.
Maintain environment configuration documentation and versioning.
Manage environment bookings and usage schedules.
Ensure test environments are aligned with production in terms of data and configuration, or differences are known and understood from the baseline.
Act as the point of contact for environment-related issues and escalations.
Ensuring that data loads required for testing are in place
Investigate and resolve environment-related incidents and service interruptions.
Collaborate with development and QA teams to support testing and deployment activities.
Maintain environment stability and uptime to ensure continuous development and testing.
Document support procedures and maintain a knowledge base of known issues and resolutions.
Some knowledge on Cerberus E2E.
Due to the nature and urgency of this post, candidates holding or who have held high level security clearance in the past are most welcome to apply. Please note successful applicants will be required to be security cleared prior to appointment which can take up to a minimum 10 weeks. LA International is a HMG approved ICT Recruitment and Project Solutions Consultancy, operating globally from the largest single site in the UK as an IT Consultancy or as an Employment Business & Agency depending upon the precise nature of the work, for security cleared jobs or non-clearance vacancies, LA International welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds.
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