Environment Manager

Job Description

Job title: Environment ManagerLocation: RemoteSalary: £40,000 DOEJob Purpose:The Environment Manager role will bring structure, organisation, and expertise to optimise and align production and non-production environments with modern enterprise IT standards. The role will ensure the stability, efficiency, and reliability of the businessesstrategic environments to support continual improvements and help drive long-term growth. Working as part of close-knit but geographically dispersed team; communication, technical knowledge, analytical problem solving and ability to deliver large scale changesacross an IT organisation will be important to the success of this role.Key Responsibilities:Environment Strategy:

• Develop a robust, data driven, practical, cost-effective environment strategy across both production and non-production environments.
• Ensure the environment architecture and organisation matches the business needs (environments for adequate and valuable QA, Automation, Non-Functional etc)
• Use forward planning techniques for right-sizing, scheduling, and load balancing in response to project demands.
• Coordinate and manage competing resource requests across the production and non-production environments.
• Conduct capacity planning for production environments to ensure they are fit to handle anticipated workload peaks and further growth.
• Forecast resource requirements based on usage patterns and upcoming projects.
• Support and improve disaster recovery plans for all environments to minimise downtime in the event of failures or disasters.
• Work with system owners and infrastructure teams to ensure automated system alerts are configured to the optimum thresholds.
• Develop and manage a calendar to ensure activities are optimally timed and scheduled, reducing risks and contributing to the overall success of environmental initiatives.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:Educational Background:

• Degree in a relevant field, or significant professional experience in a related field.
• Preferable: Additional certifications in relevant areas such as ITIL, Environment Management, Project Management, or specific technology platforms.

Skills and Experience:

• Experience in managing production and non-production environments and successful deployment of releases in complex environments.
• Strong knowledge of configuration and release management processes and tools.
• Experience with continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines.
• Proficiency in system and environment administration, with an understanding of database management, and some scripting.
• In-depth understanding of operating systems (e.g., Linux, Windows) and virtualisation technologies.
• Familiarity with on-prem (e.g. Datacentres) and cloud platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, OCI) and containerisation (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Experience of Online Transactional Processing (OLTP) systems processing large volumes of database transactions in a high availability environment.
• Experience with a wide range of IT system and able to understand and identify the optimum environmental considerations for each depending on use, development languages (e.g. .NET PHP, JAVA, T-SQL), underlying infrastructure etc
• Familiarity with implementing and using reporting tools like POWER BI, Data Studio, Tableau, etc.
• Sound understanding of development and project lifecycles across all SDLC methodologies and IT governance processes (Agile, ITIL, etc)

If youd like to learn more about this role, please get in touch with Natalie!Please only apply if you have the right to work in the UK.Devonshire is an equal opportunity employer and we encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration regardless of gender, race, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status.