Environment Manager
Rate - 720 (a day)
Location - Machester (Hybrid)
Durarion - 3 Months (Inititally)
Ir35 - Inside
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:
* Proven experience in managing IT environments or infrastructure within enterprise-level IT departments.
* The ability to define and maintain the environment management strategy for the University's IT platforms and infrastructure
* Management of stakeholder relationships, both within IT Services and the wider University
* Ability to lead both technical & non-technical meetings and discussions.
* Understanding of secure by design principles.
* Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards in IT environments.
* Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and DevOps processes.
* Familiarity with cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-premises environments.
* Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
* Proactive approach to issue resolution and process improvement.
* Understanding of database management, networking, and system administration concepts
Key Responsibilities
* Own and manage the end-to-end lifecycle of IT environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Production).
* Coordinate environment provisioning, configuration, and maintenance with internal teams and external partners.
* Collaborate closely with development, QA, DevOps and infrastructure teams to have standard release management processes and environment readiness.
* Maintain a detailed environments schedule and forecast usage and changes.
* Monitor performance, availability, and capacity of environments; troubleshoot and resolve environment-related issues.
* Ensure environments are secure, compliant, and consistent with configuration management standards.
* Drive automation and efficiency improvements in environment provisioning and deployment pipelines.
* Create and maintain comprehensive environment documentation and knowledge base.
* Support release and deployment activities by managing environment refreshes and data masking strategies.
Desirable Qualifications / Skills
* Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
* ITIL, AWS, Azure, or other relevant certifications.
* Experience in data masking, synthetic data generation, and environment orchestration tools.
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