IT Environment & Release Manager

Were looking for a strategic and collaborative IT Environment & Release Manager to join our Group Finance IT (GFIT) team.

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the way in ensuring stability control and efficiency across our non-production environments while enabling smooth and secure releases. 

What youll be doing:

• Managing and supporting non-production environments across the application estate
• Defining and maintaining environment strategies policies and IT controls
• Coordinating environment usage upgrades and service levels
• Collaborating with architects to align environment design with strategic goals
• Planning and managing release windows cycles and deployment activities
• Advising project teams on environment configurations and best practices
• Publishing KPIs and management information on environment performance
• Monitoring incidents analysing trends and driving continuous improvement

Qualifications :

Who were looking for:

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and associated tools and integration
• Knowledge of Environment and Release Configuration and Test Management principles and policies
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure
• Knowledge of SDLC 
• Prior experience in IT Environment and Release Management
• Experience/exposure to DevOps and Agile methodology
• Experience with release management tools such as ServiceNow JIRA Plutora GitHub GitHub Actions
• Exposure to Source/Version control tools CI/CD pipelines Branching concepts

Whatever your role we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays 26 days after 2 years service. Theres also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023 some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information :

At L&G we believe its possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all. 

If you join us youll be part of a welcoming inclusive culture with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds views and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.

We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand we accommodate requests when we can. 

It doesnt matter if you dont meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths potential and connection to our purpose. 

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time