Environments & Automation Lead

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; 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

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.