IT Environment Manager
Benefact Group
- Gloucester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Environment Provisioning and Maintenance: Manage access and usage of all environments, ensure environments are consistent across the domain. Facilitate the provision of new environments.
- Environment Roadmaps: Create and maintain environment roadmaps based on multiple project requirements, defining environment guidelines for consistency, and coordinating database and environment refreshes as needed.
- Risk Management: Ensure adequate controls and checks are in place to quality assure software builds ahead of any production release, managing risks that affect the release scope.
- Communication and Collaboration: Communicate environment management objectives, concepts, and policies to stakeholders. Collaborate with stakeholders to plan releases to non-production environments, acting as a subject matter expert in environment management.
- Process Design and Optimisation: Define, optimise and implement Environment Management policies, standards, tools, processes and procedures. Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure smooth updates, upgrades, and maintenance of all environments.
- Process Design and Optimization: Work with the Release Manager to define, optimize and implement Release Management policies, standards, tools, processes and procedures.
- Release Coordination: Coordinate quality gate reviews on non-production environments based on predefined acceptance criteria. Work with stakeholders to ensure datasets are delivered into relevant environments prior to testing. Cover for Release Manager during absence.
- Release Strategy with Third Parties: Work with the Release Manager to define and agree upon a release management strategy with third-party vendors and relevant stakeholders.
- Provide management reports on environment and software build configuration alignment, ensure consistency of software build configuration, monitor key performance indicators and metrics related to release activities.
- Proven experience in release and environment management.
- Strong understanding of IT processes, change management, and risk assessment.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Git, and deployment automation tools.
- Ideally a qualification in ITIL or similar IT good practice
- A competitive salary - let's discuss it
- Flexible working
- Group Personal Pension - up to 12% employer contribution
- Generous annual bonus scheme up to 24%
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, and a holiday buy and sell scheme
- An array of health and wellbeing benefits, including private healthcare, income protection and life assurance
- Up to £300 annual personal grant to a charity of your choice
- Encouraged to take at least one volunteering day per year
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Full study support to gain professional qualifications