Environment & Release Lead — Cloud, CI/CD & Automation

Addition; Watford; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Opportunity to impact national projects

Culture values inclusion and collaboration

Exposure to diverse technologies

Job summary

Addition is seeking a skilled professional for environment and release management in Watford. This role is pivotal for ensuring technology delivers stability and innovation.

You will shape the release strategy, manage a variety of platforms, and support development teams. If you're passionate about driving automation and improving processes in a major transformation programme, we want you.

Join us to impact projects that deliver real social value.

Qualifications

• Proven background in environment and release management, covering both on-premise and cloud strategies.
• Strong technical knowledge across Java, APIs, web services, and service virtualisation.
• Hands-on experience with Linux, AIX, Windows, and AWS.
• Skilled with databases including SQL, DB2, Oracle, and MySQL.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, code branching, and tools such as Jenkins, Git, and Subversion.
• Solid understanding of IT security principles and APM tools.
• Comfortable working across both Agile and Waterfall delivery models.

Responsibilities

• Shaping and delivering the overall environment and release strategy across a complex technology landscape.
• Planning, configuring and maintaining test environments, ensuring reliability and consistency.
• Building dashboards to monitor environment health, performance, and software versions.
• Managing deployment risks, issues, and cross-platform dependencies.
• Implementing governance for access and security across environments.
• Driving the move towards greater automation and Continuous Integration (CI).
• Supporting QA and development teams in troubleshooting release and environment issues.
• Producing environment roadmaps and coordinating availability with stakeholders.
• Scheduling downtime with minimal disruption to ongoing testing.

Skills

Environment and release management

Java

APIs

Web services

Service virtualisation

Linux

AIX

Windows

AWS

SQL

DB2

Oracle

MySQL

CI/CD pipelines

Jenkins

Git

Subversion

IT security principles

APM tools

Agile models

Waterfall delivery models

Job description

Addition is seeking a skilled professional for environment and release management in Watford. This role is pivotal for ensuring technology delivers stability and innovation.

You will shape the release strategy, manage a variety of platforms, and support development teams. If you're passionate about driving automation and improving processes in a major transformation programme, we want you.

Join us to impact projects that deliver real social value.