Engineering Environments Lead

Adecco; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco is recruiting for an Engineering Environments Lead to drive the transformation of a large-scale environment estate across multiple UK locations, including London, Birmingham, Bristol and Manchester. The role focuses on environment strategy, stability, disaster recovery, automation and governance to support development, testing and production services.

The position emphasizes DevOps, SRE, and Environment as Code, with senior stakeholder engagement and a track record of transformation

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading engineering or enterprise environment functions within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong background in environment strategy, governance and operational management.
• Experience delivering automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service initiatives.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms, platform engineering and SRE principles.
• Experience driving resilience, disaster recovery and service continuity programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage and influence senior leaders.
• Track record of leading transformation and change across engineering teams and technology estates.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the engineering environments strategy.
• Drive improvements in environment stability, availability and performance.
• Lead disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity initiatives.
• Implement automation and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Establish governance, standards, ownership models and best practice across the environment estate.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Platform and Infrastructure teams to support delivery at scale.
• Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps, SRE and Environment as Code.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Skills

Leadership

Environment strategy

DevOps

SRE

Automation

IaC

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

AWS

Azure

GCP

CI/CD

Job description

Engineering Environments Lead - (Platform & Environment Strategy)

Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester

12 months - Inside IR35

Our client, a leading global technology company is looking for an experienced Engineering Environments to lead the transformation of a large-scale engineering environment estate.

This is a senior leadership role focused on driving improvements across environment strategy, operational stability, disaster recovery, automation, self-service capabilities and governance. You'll work closely with Product Engineering leaders to develop a scalable, resilient and modern environment model supporting development, testing and production services across a complex enterprise landscape.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the engineering environments strategy.
• Drive improvements in environment stability, availability and performance.
• Lead disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity initiatives.
• Implement automation and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Establish governance, standards, ownership models and best practice across the environment estate.
• Work closely with Engineering, Product, Platform and Infrastructure teams to support delivery at scale.
• Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps, SRE and Environment as Code.
• Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Experience Required

• Proven experience leading engineering or enterprise environment functions within a large, complex organisation.
• Strong background in environment strategy, governance and operational management.
• Experience delivering automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service initiatives.
• Good understanding of cloud platforms, platform engineering and SRE principles.
• Experience driving resilience, disaster recovery and service continuity programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage and influence senior leaders.
• Track record of leading transformation and change across engineering teams and technology estates.

Desirable Skills

• Terraform, Ansible or similar automation tools.
• Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• CI/CD and DevOps tooling.
• Observability and monitoring solutions.
• Environment as Code and modern platform engineering practices.