Environments Manager

Expleo; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Collaborative working environment

ExpleoAcademy

Competitive benefits

Skills development opportunities

Job summary

Expleo is seeking an Environments Manager to lead the strategic planning, governance, and coordination of all environments across the software delivery lifecycle. You will ensure stability, security, and scalability to enable smooth development, testing, and deployment in hybrid/multi-cloud settings.

The role requires strong DevOps tooling experience, cloud platform expertise (AWS/Azure/GCP), and the ability to drive automation and governance across complex environments.

Qualifications

• Experience managing environments (Dev/QA/UAT/Staging/Prod) across SDLC.
• Proficiency with IaC and automation tooling for provisioning and tear down.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms and release processes.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage lifecycle of environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Prod).
• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and DevOps to provision infra across hybrid/multi-cloud.
• Oversee environment configuration, access control, and topology diagrams.
• Coordinate readiness for performance testing, releases, and QA.
• Implement monitoring and alerting to ensure environment health.
• Automate provisioning/teardown using IaC and handle incidents/root-cause.
• Maintain runbooks and documentation; align with deployment schedules.
• Ensure compliance with security and governance policies.
• Coordinate DR testing for RTO/RPO and resilience across environments.
• Design observability frameworks to accelerate root-cause analysis.

Skills

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Overview

The Environments Manager is responsible for the strategic planning, coordination, and governance of all non-production and production environments across the software delivery lifecycle. This role ensures that environments are stable, scalable, secure, and fit for purpose, enabling seamless development, testing, and deployment activities.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the lifecycle of environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Production).


• Collaborate with Cloud Engineering and DevOps teams to provision and maintain infrastructure across hybrid or multi-cloud platforms.


• Oversee environment configuration, visioning, and access control.


• Coordinate environment readiness for performance testing, release cycles, and quality assurance.


• Implement monitoring and alerting strategies to ensure environment health and performance.


• Drive automation of environment provisioning and tear downusing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).


• Manage environment-related incidents and root cause analysis.


• Maintain environment documentation, topology diagrams, and runbooks.


• Engage with Release Managers to align environment availability with deployment schedules.


• Ensure compliance with security and governance policies.


• Coordinates and governs DR testing to validate recoverability, RTO/RPO compliance, and resilience across environments, ensuring high availability and alignment with business continuity objectives.


• Design monitoring and observability frameworks to accelerate root cause analysis and reduce Mean-Time-to-Recovery (MTTR)

Essential skills

• Proficiency in DevOps tools (Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, GitHub Actions).


• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines and release orchestration.


• Familiarity with software development and QA processes.

Experience

• Strong experience in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).


• Experience with performance testing tools and environment tuning.


• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.


• Proven ability to manage multiple environments across concurrent projects.

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment - we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and ourpeers through good times and challenges


• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects


• ExpleoAcademy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses


• Competitive company benefits


• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  
  
  
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  
  
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  
  
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  
  
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  
  
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people
  
  
  
  

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive