DevOps & Environment Manager

Synechron; Greater London; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Synechron seeks an experienced DevOps & Environment Manager to lead AWS environments across DEV, QA, UAT, pre-prod and production. You will own environment strategy, patching, and IaC pipelines with Terraform/CloudFormation, guiding teams toward predictable delivery.

The role combines hands-on engineering with governance and people leadership to reduce risk and automate operations for mission-critical platforms.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience managing enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Proven ownership of AMI lifecycle management, environment refreshes and OS patching.
• Strong Windows Server and RHEL administration experience.
• Experience managing or coordinating database patching for SQL Server, PostgreSQL and/or Sybase.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Geneos, ELK or OpenSearch.
• Scripting experience using Python, Bash/Shell and PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, audit evidence and operational risk management.
• Ability to improve resilience, standardization, automation and operational readiness.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication and mentoring skills.
• Ability to move teams from reactive firefighting to planned and predictable delivery.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern AWS environment standards, provisioning, lifecycle management, refresh and decommissioning.
• Own AMI refresh cycles and lead Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) patching.
• Coordinate database patching across SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Sybase environments.
• Maintain forward-looking patch calendars aligned with vendor releases, vulnerabilities and business risk.
• Ensure patching and major environment changes are tested, approved, communicated and fully evidenced.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Standardize provisioning through reusable modules and reduce configuration drift and operational toil.
• Integrate smoke tests, health checks and post-deployment validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging and operational readiness using actionable, SRE-aligned practices.
• Identify and remediate security, compliance, configuration and platform risks.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventative automation to improve resilience and recovery readiness.
• Manage, mentor and guide DevOps and environment engineering teams.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure and Operations teams on releases, changes and risk reduction.

Skills

AWS

AMI lifecycle

Windows Server

RHEL

Terraform

CloudFormation

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

Docker

Kubernetes

EKS

CloudWatch

Prometheus

Grafana

Python

PowerShell

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Job description

About The Role

We are seeking an experienced DevOps & Environment Manager to lead the stability, security, automation and lifecycle management of AWS environments supporting mission-critical platforms. You will own environment strategy and operational readiness across DEV, QA, UAT, pre-production and production, ensuring environments are secure, consistent, resilient, auditable and production-ready. The role combines hands-on technical expertise with operational governance and people leadership, helping teams move from reactive support to predictable, risk-led delivery.

• Define and govern AWS environment standards, provisioning, lifecycle management, refresh and decommissioning.
• Own AMI refresh cycles and lead Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) patching.
• Coordinate database patching across SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Sybase environments.
• Maintain forward-looking patch calendars aligned with vendor releases, vulnerabilities and business risk.
• Ensure patching and major environment changes are tested, approved, communicated and fully evidenced.
• Build and enhance Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Standardize provisioning through reusable modules and reduce configuration drift and operational toil.
• Integrate smoke tests, health checks and post-deployment validation into CI/CD pipelines.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, dashboards, logging and operational readiness using actionable, SRE-aligned practices.
• Identify and remediate security, compliance, configuration and platform risks.
• Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventative automation to improve resilience and recovery readiness.
• Manage, mentor and guide DevOps and environment engineering teams.
• Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure and Operations teams on releases, changes and risk reduction.

Required Skills And Experience

• Strong hands-on experience managing enterprise-scale AWS environments.
• Proven ownership of AMI lifecycle management, environment refreshes and OS patching.
• Strong Windows Server and RHEL administration experience.
• Experience managing or coordinating database patching for SQL Server, PostgreSQL and/or Sybase.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions and Jenkins.
• Practical experience with Docker, Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Experience with monitoring, logging and alerting tools such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Geneos, ELK or OpenSearch.
• Scripting experience using Python, Bash/Shell and PowerShell.
• Strong understanding of vulnerability remediation, compliance controls, audit evidence and operational risk management.
• Ability to improve resilience, standardization, automation and operational readiness.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, communication and mentoring skills.
• Ability to move teams from reactive firefighting to planned and predictable delivery.

Experience in financial services, index platforms, data platforms or other regulated industries is highly desirable.

Join us to help build secure, resilient and automated AWS environments that enable reliable delivery of mission-critical services.

SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative 'Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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