Environment and Release Manager

Costa Coffee; Camden Town; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Costa Coffee is seeking an Environment and Release Manager to oversee the management of D365 environments and to collaborate across teams ensuring optimal operational performance. This role presents an opportunity to influence projects significantly, with a strong focus on release and deployment control processes.

Benefits

50% discount in all Costa-owned stores

Private medical cover

Share Investment Plan (SIP)

Smart pension with matching contributions

Costa Financial Support Fund

Qualifications

• Understanding of Environment and Release management techniques, tools and methodologies.
• Solid understanding of the Microsoft Dynamics landscape.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of the business.

Responsibilities

• Ensure all environments are built, configured, managed, and maintained.
• Collaborate with technology teams and business stakeholders.
• Be responsible for the scheduling and coordination of D365 environments.

Skills

Understanding of Environment and Release management techniques

Understanding of project lifecycle stages

Understanding of Microsoft Dynamics

Communication skills

Job description

At Costa Coffee, we are what we craft. We’re reimagining coffee experiences in over 50 countries and counting, as a key part of the Coca-Cola System. Whether you get your coffee in a store, from a machine, at home, or on the go – we’ve got you covered.

Our teams make a difference. Whether that’s working on new tech for the perfect pour, helping our teams grow, creating award-winning campaigns, crunching the numbers, or developing the latest exciting menu item; together, we stir up success.

We may be a global brand, but we haven’t forgotten our roots. That’s where the Costa Foundation and our fantastic community agenda come in. Whatever your role, you can help us change lives in coffee growing communities and help your local community too.

We also want to help you grow in your career through amazing experiences, our apprenticeship scheme, and development programmes. At Costa, you can go beyond the day-to-day.

And as an Environment and Release Manager there’s never been a better time to join.

So, why Costa?

We didn’t become a global coffee brand by sitting back. When you work here, you join a community that values passion, progression and integrity, with some pretty brilliant perks to sweeten the deal:

• Own a piece of Costa’s success by becoming a share owner in Coca-Cola with our Share Investment Plan (SIP)
• A smart pension that saves you money on tax and national insurance, and matches your contributions up to 10%
• The Costa Financial Support Fund, supporting team members who find themselves in unexpected financial pressure
• 50% discount in all Costa-owned stores, and 25% off in other participating stores
• Private medical cover thanks to our Private Healthcare scheme
• And that’s not all. Explore even more of our perkshere: https://bit.ly/costaperks

We’re passionate about being a great place to work, where you can bring your unique self into our mix. We firmly support diversity, equity and inclusion, and continue to work with our teams to shape the future of our culture and values: Disciplined to Deliver, Passion for Progress, Win with Warmth, Courage to Challenge and Trusted Team Players.

What you’ll do

Being an Environment and Release Manager is about so much more than bringing our coffee to the world. It’s your chance to stir up real success - which means you’ll:

• Ensure all environments are built, configured, managed and maintained and that appropriate release & deployment controls are in place at all times.
• Collaborate with technology teams, business stakeholders, and the outsourced managed service provider to ensure the D365 system meets current and future business requirements.
• Be responsible for the scheduling, provisioning and co-ordination of D365 environments.
• Ensure all changes are in line with Costa internal change process.
• Be accountable for D365 environment sizing and on-going capacity management.

Who you are

It’s your unique ingredients we’re interested in:

• Understanding of Environment and Release management techniques, tools and methodologies in a multi-vendor environment.
• A strong understanding of all stages of a project lifecycle and the demands that those have on environments.
• A solid understanding of the Microsoft Dynamics landscape
• Ability to understand the technology landscape, infrastructure, networking and integrations between multiple systems.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels of the business and Technology
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