Environments Manager
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Job Description
Environments Manager
Duration: 3 Months
Rate: 600 per day
Location: Manchester & Remote (hybrid working)
Start: ASAP
IR35 Status: Inside
Role Overview:
We require an Environments Manager for our higher education client who will play a critical role in building and maintaining an environment management capability for their IT Services.
The IT Services consists of multiple teams who support maintain and administer core technology functions for the organisation.
We require an experienced and proactive IT Environments Manager to lead the management coordination and continuous improvement of their IT environments across the software development lifycycle.
This is a critical role that ensures consistency availability and integrity of development testing staging and production environments in support of agile delivery and operational excellence.
As the Environments Manager you will ensure a stable and efficient software development and testing process helping to reduce downtime improve security and enhance the overall software quality.
This role plays a crucial part in ensuring a stable and efficient development testing and deployment pipeline. You will also be responsible for evaluating the existing IT estate and management processes as well as defining a roadmap of change. As the Environments Manager you will use this information to develop an environment management strategy for the organisation.
The Environments Manager will be a key member of the divisional leadership team providing strategic direction for their IT Services environment management function anticipating challenges optimising environment performance and building the capability required to ensure the optimal delivery of the organisations on-prem and cloud-based platforms.
Essential Skills & Experience required:
As the Environments Manager you will possess the following:
Proven experience in managing IT environments or infrastructure within enterprise-level IT departments.
The ability to define and maintain the environment management strategy for the Clients IT platforms and infrastructure
Management of stakeholder relationships both within IT Services and the wider organisation
Ability to lead both technical & non-technical meetings and discussions.
Understanding of secure by design principles.
Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards in IT environments.
Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and DevOps processes.
Knowledge of infrastructure platforms such as VMWare or Solaris
Familiarity with cloud (AWS Azure or GCP) and on-premises environments.
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins GitLab).
Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Proactive approach to issue resolution and process improvement.
Understanding of database management networking and system administration concepts
Desirable qualifications would be any of the following:
ITIL v4
Relevant Azure or AWS Certifications
Responsibilities include:
Own and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of IT environments (Dev QA UAT Staging Production).
Coordinate environment provisioning configuration and maintenance with internal teams and external partners.
Collaborate closely with development QA DevOps and infrastructure teams to have standard release management processes and environment readiness.
Maintain a detailed environments schedule and forecast usage and changes.
Monitor performance availability and capacity of environments; troubleshoot and resolve environment-related issues.
Ensure environments are secure compliant and consistent with configuration management standards.
Drive automation and efficiency improvements in environment provisioning and deployment pipelines.
Create and maintain comprehensive environment documentation and knowledge base.
Support release and deployment activities by managing environment refreshes and data masking strategies.
Hybrid working: Ideally 1-2 days week per week on the client site in Manchester
To apply for this role please call Joanne Stanley - Tel:or email:
Certes IT Service Solutions welcome applications from all sections of the community and from people with diverse experience and backgrounds
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full-Time
