Tech Lead, Release & Platform Environments

London - UK

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Why work for us

A career at Janus Henderson is more than a job its about investingin a brighter future together.

Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights disciplined investments and world-class service. We will do this by protecting and growing our core business amplifying our strengths and diversifying where we have the right.

Our Values are key to driving our success and are at the heart of everything we do:

Clients Come First - Always Execution Supersedes Intention Together We Win Diversity Improves Results Truth Builds Trust

If our mission values and purpose align with your own we would love to hear from you!

Your opportunity

The Tech Lead Release & Platform Environments is a senior technical role responsible for leading the design implementation and operational management of software release processes and SDLC environments. This role ensures reliable secure and scalable environments across development testing staging and production while enabling efficient software delivery through automation tooling and collaboration with engineering and QA teams.

Release Management

Own and manage end-to-end release processes across multiple environments

Coordinate release schedules cutovers and deployment windows with engineering and QA teams

Implement release automation and rollback strategies for safe deployments

Maintain release documentation runbooks and change logs

SDLC Environment Management

Design provision and maintain environments for development testing staging and production

Ensure environment consistency configuration management and version alignment

Troubleshoot environment-related issues and coordinate resolution across teams

Implement environment monitoring and health checks

Automation & Tooling

Develop and maintain automation scripts for environment provisioning and release workflows

Integrate release and environment processes into CI/CD pipelines

Work with tools like Azure DevOps GitHub Actions Jenkins and Octopus Deploy

Maintain infrastructure-as-code templates for environment setup (Terraform Bicep)

Security & Access Control

Implement RBAC and access policies across environments

Ensure secure handling of secrets credentials and environment variables

Collaborate with security teams to enforce compliance and audit readiness

Monitoring & Support

Set up monitoring and alerting for environment stability and release health

Lead incident response during release failures or environment outages

Continuously improve release and environment reliability through root cause analysis

Team Leadership & Collaboration

Lead a small team of environment and release engineers

Collaborate with developers QA SREs and platform teams to align delivery goals

Mentor junior engineers and contribute to best practices and standards

What to expect when you join our firm

Hybrid working and reasonable accommodations

Generous Holiday policies

Excellent Health and Wellbeing benefits including corporate membership to ClassPass

Paid volunteer time to step away from your desk and into the community

Support to grow through professional development courses tuition/qualification reimbursement and more

Maternal/paternal leave benefits and family services

Complimentary subscription to Headspace the mindfulness app

All employee events including networking opportunities and social activities

Lunch allowance for use within our subsidized onsite canteen

Must have skills

Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science Engineering or related field

7 years of experience in release engineering environment management or DevOps

Strong hands-on experience with Azure DevOps GitHub CI/CD and scripting (PowerShell Bash Python)

Deep understanding of SDLC environment lifecycle and deployment strategies

Experience with IaC tools (Terraform Bicep) and release automation frameworks

Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure preferred) RBAC & secure delivery practices

Nice to have skills

Experience with containerized environments (Kubernetes Docker)

Exposure to service virtualization and test data management

Knowledge of ITIL or change management processes

Strong troubleshooting and incident management skills

Supervisory responsibilities

Potential for growth

Mentoring

Leadership development programs

Regular training

Career development services

Continuing education courses

Cross functional collaboration

You will be expected to understand the regulatory obligations of the firm and abide by the regulated entity requirements and JHI policies applicable for your role.

At Janus Henderson Investors were committed to an inclusive and supportive environment. We believe diversity improves results and we welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds. Dont worry if you dont think you tick every box we still want to hear from you! We understand everyone has different commitments and while we cant accommodate every flexible working request were happy to be asked about work flexibility and our hybrid working environment. If you need any reasonable accommodations during our recruitment process please get in touch and let us know at

Janus Henderson (including its subsidiaries) will not maintain existing or sponsor new industry registrations or licenses where not supported by an employees job functions (as determined by Janus Henderson at its sole discretion).

All applicants must be willing to comply with the provisions of Janus Henderson Investment Advisory Code of Ethics related to personal securities activities and other disclosure and certification requirements including past political contributions and political activities. Applicants past political contributions or activity may impact applicants eligibility for this position. Janus Henderson is an equal opportunity /Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability or veteran status. All applications are subject to background checks.

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Why work for usA career at Janus Henderson is more than a job its about investingin a brighter future together.Our Mission at Janus Henderson is to help clients define and achieve superior financial outcomes through differentiated insights disciplined investments and world-class service. We will do ...