Environment Manager

Must Have:

• Skill 1 Yrs of Exp Environment Management
• Skill 2 Yrs of Exp Release Management
• Skill 3 Yrs of Exp Platform Management
• Skill 4 Yrs of Exp - Cost Optimization

Job Title: Environment Manager Non-Production Environments

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 Cloud Health).
• Excellent stakeholder management risk escalation and communication skills.