Environment Manager - Automation, DevOps, Architecture Contract Length: 12 months Location: London /Hybrid Rate: £600-670 per day IR35 Status: Outside Evironment Manager urgently needed by a well reknowned Financial Services customer. I am partnered with a large-scale financial services organisation that are continuing their Technology Transformation and are at a critical point of their journey. I am seeking an experienced Environment Manager with core experience in bringing core structure and stability, utilising automation to replace manual processes wherever possible. This role will require a deep background in modern cloud platforms whilst also overseeing legacy enterprise systems. You will take ownership of how engineering environments are planned, refreshed and managed. The successful candidate will make a significant impact on efficiency by reducing the need for manual processes and instead embed automation and DevOps ways of working. Shortlisting to commence w/c 5th May - Please forward your profile for review. Role: Take end‑to‑end ownership of all non‑production environments, spanning development, testing, staging and pre‑production. Create clarity and predictability around environment availability, refresh cycles and usage across multiple delivery streams. Act as point of contact for dependencies or incidents arise. Identify automation opportunities - replacement of heavy manual processes Core relationship with Architecture and DevOps teams to enable automation Define and align governance and controls with change and release practices Oversight of compliance Collaboration across multiple technical teams including testing, Engineering and Delivery teams Core stakeholder management acting as the bridge between technical and non-technical audiences Technical Knowledge Proven experience in an Environment/Release Management role SDLC & CI/CD knowledge Change Management IaC (Terraform) Containerisation - Kubernetes Azure Cloud Deployment tools - ADO (Azure DevOps) / Ansible etc Proven experience of bringing structure into complex environments Financial Services Industry background Data & Application Notice We process personal data submitted as part of your application for recruitment purposes in line with UK GDPR. All applications are reviewed by a member of our team, we do not use automated decision-making in our selection process. Your application will be assessed against the requirements of this role. For more information on how we use your data, including how long we retain it and your rights, please refer to our Privacy Policy .