Technical Environment Consultant

Technical Environment Consultant

Outside IR35

Duration: 6 months

Purpose of the assignment

TMHCC operates a highly complex distributed technology estate spanning legacy and modern platforms. This assignment will establish disciplined end-to-end environment management ensuring consistency availability and control across development test and pre-production landscapes. Equally it will define and implement the automation roadmap required to remove manual intervention and dependency bottlenecks.

The assignments ultimate success will be measured by completing the project - achieved through automation orchestration and sustainable capability uplift.

Rationale

Our current environment landscape is fragmented with significant manual effort required to coordinate releases refreshes and dependencies across systems. This creates risk delays and inconsistencies in delivery. The assignment will help TMHCC to stabilise the operating model introduce automation and define a scalable approach that can be embedded into permanent engineering and DevOps practices.

Environment Management

• Define maintain and oversee all non-production environments (development test staging UAT performance pre-production).
• Manage environment schedules refresh cycles and configuration deployments across multiple platforms and business domains.
• Act as the single point of coordination for environment-related incidents conflicts and dependencies.

Automation and Optimisation

• Assess manual environment management processes and identify automation opportunities.
• Collaborate with DevOps and Architecture teams to design and deliver automated provisioning refresh and monitoring capabilities.
• Develop and deliver a roadmap toward self-service environment orchestration using infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-driven automation.

Governance and Coordination

• Establish environment management standards runbooks and controls aligned to change and release processes.
• Ensure test data management aligns with privacy and security obligations.
• Coordinate environment planning with product and change teams to reduce contention and improve release flow.

Stakeholder Management

• Partner with Engineering QA Architecture and Delivery teams to plan and prioritise environment usage.
• Communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical stakeholders on environment availability and issues.
• Champion automation-first practices and influence consistent standards across delivery teams.

Required Experience

• Proven track record in environment or release management within complex multi-system enterprises (ideally insurance or financial services).
• Strong knowledge of SDLC CI/CD Change Management and environment dependencies.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Infrastructure-as-Code (e.g. Terraform)
  • Cloud (preferably Azure)
  • DevOps tooling (e.g. Ansible Azure DevOps GitHub OctopusDeploy)
  • Containers (e.g AKS K8 or Minikube)
  • Service management platforms (e.g. ServiceNow)
• Demonstrated leadership in environment automation and orchestration initiatives.

Success Measures

• Reduction in environment-related incidents and conflicts.
• Documented and repeatable environment processes established.
• Automation of key environment provisioning and refresh activities.
• Defined and agreed exit plan transferring responsibilities into permanent DevOps practice.
• Demonstrable ROI through reduced manual effort shorter lead times and higher release confidence.
• Defined and agreed exit plan transferring ownership into permanent DevOps practices.
• Knowledge transfer and engagement of permanent team members throughout the journey.