Enviroments Manager

ARM; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd. seeks an experienced Environments Manager to own governance, optimisation and management of software development environments across the digital estate.

You will be the central contact for environment activities, ensuring secure, reliable and cost-efficient environments from Development to Production. Drive best practice, automation and reporting to enable high-quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• Experience in IT Environment Management or IT Operations within software/SaaS environments.
• Strong understanding of major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience implementing ITIL or similar frameworks.
• Strong RBAC, governance and compliance know-how.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain a complete inventory of environments, owners, admins, support arrangements and lifecycle status.
• Establish ownership, governance, approval processes and accountability across environments.
• Manage privileged access controls, roles and compliance requirements.
• Oversee environment costs, funding approvals and financial reporting.
• Implement standardised provisioning, onboarding, change management, support, review and decommissioning processes.
• Develop dashboards and KPIs to monitor environment performance, risks and costs.
• Collaborate with engineering and project teams to ensure environments support delivery.
• Act as escalation point for incidents and outages; drive resolution and root cause analysis.
• Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service to reduce manual effort.
• Liaise with cloud providers and vendors to optimise platform performance and licensing.

Skills

Environment Management

Release Management

IT Operations

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

ITIL

RBAC

Cost Forecasting

Executive Reporting

Stakeholder Management

Job description

A leading technology organisation supporting critical national operations is seeking an experienced Environments Manager to take ownership of the governance, optimisation and management of software development environments across a complex digital estate.

This role will act as the central point of contact for all environment-related activities, ensuring engineering teams have secure, reliable and cost-effective environments across Development, Testing, UAT, Staging and Production. The successful candidate will drive best practice, improve operational efficiency and support the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

• Create and maintain a complete inventory of environments, owners, administrators, support arrangements and lifecycle status.
• Establish clear ownership, governance frameworks, approval processes and accountability across all environments.
• Manage privileged access controls, role-based permissions and compliance requirements.
• Oversee environment costs, funding approvals and ongoing financial reporting.
• Implement standardised processes for environment provisioning, onboarding, change management, support, review and decommissioning.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs and reporting to provide visibility of environment performance, risks, compliance and costs.
• Collaborate with engineering and project teams to ensure environments are available to support successful software delivery.
• Act as the escalation point for environment-related incidents, outages and performance issues, driving resolution and root cause analysis.
• Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Work closely with cloud providers and third-party vendors to optimise platform performance and licensing.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in IT Environment Management, Release Management or IT Operations within a software, SaaS or technology-led organisation.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience implementing ITIL or similar operational frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), governance and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs, forecasting and budget optimisation.
• Ability to produce meaningful management information, metrics and executive-level reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical teams and senior leadership.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within defence, government or highly regulated environments.