Overview:
TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation information technology and services
Position: Environment Manager - Non-Production Environments
Location: Atlanta GA / Bellevue WA
Duration: 6 Months
Job Type: Temporary Assignment
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Description:
Role Overview:
- The Environment Manager owns the planning scheduling lifecycle and cost optimization of all non-production environments (Dev QA UAT Performance).
- This role is the key enabler for project/product delivery and test teams ensuring environments are stable available and cost-effective. The Environment Manager works closely with technical towers (DBAs Infra Security Network Application) and DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines deployments and environment operations run smoothly.
- They are accountable for managing environment sharing conflict resolution and risk escalation while also optimizing cloud and infrastructure costs.
Key Responsibilities:
Environment Planning & Scheduling:
- Own the NPE calendar (test cycles releases refreshes maintenance).
- Partner with project/product delivery teams to allocate and prioritize environments.
- Manage environment sharing and contention across multiple teams.
- Highlight risks early (conflicts capacity issues performance impacts) and escalate as needed.
Technical & DevOps Coordination:
- Act as the single coordination point with DBAs Infra Network Security and Application teams for environment readiness.
- Partner with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines into environment usage and ensure test/dev deployments align with NPE governance.
- Ensure environments are provisioned refreshed and configured with all dependencies in place.
Operational Ownership:
- Oversee environment builds refreshes patching and upgrades.
- Monitor environment health availability and performance in partnership with SREs.
- Ensure compliance with security data and audit standards.
Cost & Optimization:
- Accountable for cloud and environment cost optimization.
- Track actual vs. estimated usage
- Right-size environments and reduce idle spend through automation and governance.
Collaboration & Governance:
- Partner with NPE Intake Analyst to validate demand forecasting and request feasibility.
- Partner with Change Manager to ensure approved changes fit environment schedules and readiness.
- Partner with Incident & Request Manager to address systemic environment issues identified via RCAs.
Required Skills & Experience:
- 6 8 years in Environment/Release/Platform Management with large-scale NPE coverage.
- Strong experience coordinating across technical teams (DBA Infra Network Security).
- Proven track record working with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipeline integration and automation.
- Deep knowledge of AWS Kubernetes CI/CD pipelines and environment orchestration.
- Hands-on experience managing shared environments and resolving contention.
- Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization/FinOps (AWS Cost Explorer Kubecost CloudHealth).
- Excellent stakeholder management risk escalation and communication skills.
TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.