Interim Product Engineering Environment Lead

Experis IT; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 138,000 - 203,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Interim 6-month contract

Job summary

Experis IT is seeking an Interim Environments Lead in the UK (Hybrid with occasional travel) for a 6-month engagement reporting to the Product Engineering Director. You will lead transformation across environments, drive faster software delivery, and modernise estate stability.

The role requires senior leadership across engineering, DevOps, platform and delivery functions, with a strong SDLC background and a track record of measurable improvements in complex enterprise settings.

Qualifications

• Strong experience leading engineering, DevOps, platform, environment or technology delivery functions within large-scale organisations.
• A solid understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), including software delivery, deployment, testing and release management.
• Experience working within DevOps and CI/CD-led organisations.
• Proven success improving operating models, delivery performance and engineering effectiveness through measurable, metrics-driven change.
• The ability to engage confidently in technical discussions with engineering teams whilst maintaining a strategic leadership perspective.
• Experience leading through complexity, managing escalations and driving outcomes across multiple teams and stakeholders.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to translate technical challenges into business value and measurable outcomes.
• Experience operating within complex enterprise environments containing a mix of cloud, on-premise and integrated technology estates.

Responsibilities

• Lead Environment Transformation: Simplify and rationalise a fragmented environments landscape.
• Establish clear ownership, governance and ways of working.
• Create scalable operating models supporting software delivery across the SDLC.
• Improve Engineering Delivery: Drive improvements across software delivery, deployment and testing practices.
• Remove bottlenecks impacting release velocity and engineering productivity.
• Improve collaboration across development, testing and operational teams.
• Stabilise and Modernise the Estate: Improve environment availability, consistency and reliability.
• Reduce operational risk through improved resilience and governance.
• Strengthen disaster recovery and business continuity capabilities.
• Drive Automation and Self-Service: Champion Environment-as-Code and Infrastructure-as-Code practices.
• Increase automation across provisioning, deployment and testing activities.
• Improve observability and operational visibility.
• Build a Metrics-Driven Environment Function: Introduce meaningful KPIs and operational metrics.
• Use data to identify improvement opportunities and measure success.
• Support evidence-based decision-making across engineering leadership.
• Leadership and Stakeholder Management: Lead cross-functional teams in a Matrix environment.
• Manage operational escalations and delivery challenges.
• Influence senior technical and business stakeholders.
• Support leadership in defining long-term engineering environment strategy.

Skills

Engineering leadership

DevOps leadership

Platform engineering leadership

Environment management

SRE

Engineering enablement

Technology operations

Software delivery transformation

Tools

Kubernetes

Job description

Experis IT is seeking an Interim Environments Lead in the UK (Hybrid with occasional travel) for a 6-month engagement reporting to the Product Engineering Director. You will lead transformation across environments, drive faster software delivery, and modernise estate stability.

The role requires senior leadership across engineering, DevOps, platform and delivery functions, with a strong SDLC background and a track record of measurable improvements in complex enterprise settings.