Our world-leading Time & Frequency department and NTC Programme are seeking an Environments Manager with proven expertise in managing both hardware and platform environments.
This is an exceptional opportunity to join the global authority in precision timing at a defining moment for UK digital infrastructure.
Backed by a government investment of £180 million in the National Timing Centre (NTC) programme, we are developing a world-first resilient time distribution capability that will provide industry with a robust complement to satellite systems (such as GPS) – which are increasingly vulnerable to disruption from solar storms, jamming and spoofing. This will underpin essential services, including
* Telecommunications,
* Online banking,
* Emergency response,
* Transport networks, and
* Wider digital and data-driven operations.
Together, these services form the backbone of modern society - and your leadership will help ensure they remain secure, reliable and robust even if global navigation satellite systems fail.
Key responsibilities:
* Design and own the end‑to‑end environment management model - Design, implement, and own the full lifecycle of IT delivery environments (including development, test, staging, production, and any other lower level test and dev environments) and associated hardware and platform environments, ensuring they are provisioned, configured, governed, technically monitored, and decommissioned in line with programme schedules, release plans, and availability requirements.
* Process ownership for environment governance and control - Define, implement, and enforce environment standards, access policies, and usage conventions, owning environment documentation, capacity planning, and availability forecasting, and ensuring controlled, auditable management of all environment types.
* Lead environment stability, incident resolution, and change - Act as the primary escalation point for environment‑related incidents and risks, assuming responsibility and leading triage and resolution activity across delivery and operational teams, and coordinating environment‑related change through formal change and configuration control processes to minimise disruption and protect delivery integrity.
* Lead asset lifecycle management and assurance - Own and implement end‑to‑end asset management in line with ISO 55000 principles, covering procurement support, tracking, audit, risk management, reporting, and compliant disposal of programme assets, and providing accurate management information on asset condition, utilisation, cost, and risk for both hardware and software.
* Work in partnership with the config and change manager to ensure system stability and controlled change.