Environments Manager

Concept Information Technology; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the education sector is seeking an experienced IT Environments Manager for a 6-month contract in Manchester. This role involves overseeing environment management for software development, ensuring reliability and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in IT environments, cloud technologies, and stakeholder engagement, and will drive automation initiatives to improve processes.

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing IT environments in an enterprise setting.
• Experience with cloud services such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Manage the lifecycle of IT environments including development and production.
• Collaborate with teams for environment readiness and release management.
• Ensure compliance with security and configuration standards.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Communication

Team collaboration

Automation

Cloud environments experience

Education

Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

GitLab

Job description

Environments Manager

6 months contract

Inside IR35

Manchester/hybrid

The Role

We are seeking an experienced and proactive IT Environments Manager to lead the development and ongoing management of our environment management capability. This critical role ensures the consistency, availability, and integrity of development, testing, staging, and production environments in support of agile delivery and operational excellence.

The IT Environments Manager will be responsible for enabling a stable and efficient software development and testing process—helping reduce downtime, enhance security, and improve overall software quality. The successful candidate will work across multiple teams and functions, ensuring environment readiness, supporting release cycles, and promoting automation and best practices throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate must have demonstrable experience working within the higher education sector, alongside the following:

1. Proven experience managing IT environments or infrastructure in a complex, enterprise-level setting.
2. Ability to define and maintain a comprehensive environment management strategy across diverse platforms.
3. Strong stakeholder management skills, including engagement with technical and non-technical audiences.
4. Confident in leading meetings, workshops, and collaborative planning sessions.
5. Understanding of secure-by-design principles and knowledge of security and compliance standards in IT environments.
6. Strong grasp of application lifecycle management and DevOps processes.
7. Experience working with both cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-premises environments.
8. Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
9. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
10. Proactive approach to issue resolution and continuous process improvement.
11. Understanding of database management, networking, and system administration concepts.

Key Responsibilities

1. Manage the full lifecycle of IT environments including development, QA, UAT, staging, and production.
2. Coordinate the provisioning, configuration, and maintenance of environments across internal teams and third-party providers.
3. Collaborate with development, QA, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to ensure environment readiness and consistent release management practices.
4. Maintain an up-to-date environment schedule and forecast future changes or requirements.
5. Monitor environment performance, availability, and capacity; troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently.
6. Ensure all environments meet appropriate security, compliance, and configuration standards.
7. Lead initiatives to automate environment provisioning and improve efficiency across delivery pipelines.
8. Maintain comprehensive documentation, environment diagrams, and knowledge bases.
9. Support release and deployment cycles by managing environment refreshes, data masking, and test data strategies.

Desirable Qualifications / Skills

1. Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
2. Industry-recognised certifications (e.g., ITIL, AWS, Azure).
3. Experience with data masking, synthetic data creation, and environment orchestration tools.

Job Requirements

The IT Environments Manager will be responsible for enabling a stable and efficient software development and testing process—helping reduce downtime, enhance security, and improve overall software quality.

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Created on 30/06/2025 by Concept Information Technology