IT Environment & Release Analyst

Legal & General; Hove; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services organization is looking for an IT Environment & Release Analyst in Hove. This role entails managing application environments, overseeing release management, and ensuring IT controls align with best practices. With a focus on collaborative working and career development, this position offers a supportive and inclusive work environment along with benefits like generous holidays and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

Opportunity to participate in annual performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contribution

Life assurance

Private medical insurance (for permanent employees)

At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays

Competitive family leave

Participation in electric car scheme

Discounts on products and various stores

Modernized workspaces for collaboration

Qualifications

• Well-versed in IT Environmental Management.
• Experience in a Release Management role.
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure.
• Experience in a DevOps/Agile environment.
• Cloud experience with AWS or Azure is a big plus.

Responsibilities

• Managing and supporting application environments; protecting the integrity of environments.
• Defining and maintaining Environment Strategies and IT Controls.
• Negotiating and managing release/deployment activities.
• Supporting project delivery with expert knowledge on environment utilization.

Skills

IT Environmental Management

Release Management

Understanding of IT infrastructure

DevOps/Agile environment

Cloud experience with AWS or Azure

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Job Description

We have a fantastic new opportunity for an IT Environment & Release Analyst to join us in Hove! Bringing stability and control to L&G IT environments, you’ll own non-production environments, orchestrate their usage, and act as a gatekeeper for all releases to ensure the integrity of the environments.

If you’re looking for a role where you’ll be able to deliver new ways of working to an IT function, then this could be the ideal next move for you!

What you'll be doing:

1. Managing and supporting the application environments, facilitating definition, creation, build, deployment, and maintenance (including upgrades) where applicable - ensuring to protect the integrity of environments. Managing the full configuration status of each environment from OS versions, patch status, software versioning.
2. Defining, establishing, and maintaining Environment Strategies, auditable policies, processes, and IT Controls for Environment Management in line with industry best practices (ITIL).
3. Managing application environments allocation, multiple bookings, or shared usage, and maintaining the schedule of environment usage.
4. Working with Solution Architects to ensure environment design and purpose meet strategic objectives and support change flexibility. Maintaining environment cost profile and supporting in reducing associated costs.
5. Negotiating, planning, and managing all release/deployment activities to forward plan the release windows and cycles across the estate from an environment perspective, including task/resource/dependency management. Producing and maintaining Run Books.
6. Supporting project delivery through defining and agreeing on requirements and providing expert knowledge on best practice environment types, configurations, connectivity, and functionality to meet expectations. Providing guidance to project teams on environment utilization and efficiencies.
7. Defining and maintaining management information and publishing KPIs on a periodic basis, including environment usage/utilization, forward planning/schedules/bookings, performance, capacity, and availability across in-scope environments.
8. Proactively monitoring incidents related to the environments and facilitating closure of incidents. Analyzing incident data to perform trend analysis and contributing to continual improvement. Managing risks and resolving issues pertaining to environments.

Qualifications - Who we're looking for:

• Well-versed in IT Environmental Management.
• Experience in a Release Management role and seeking a new challenge?
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure.
• Experience in a DevOps/Agile environment.
• Cloud experience with AWS or Azure is a big plus!

Benefits:

• Opportunity to participate in our annual performance-related bonus plan and share schemes.
• Generous pension contribution.
• Life assurance.
• Private medical insurance (for permanent employees).
• At least 25 days holiday plus public holidays, increasing to 26 days after 2 years of service, with options to buy and sell holiday.
• Competitive family leave.
• Participation in our electric car scheme, offering the option to hire a brand-new electric car through salary sacrifice.
• Discounts on products and at various stores and online.
• Modernized workspaces designed for connection, collaboration, and wellbeing.

Additional Information:

Legal & General is a leading financial services organization, named in 2023 for the second consecutive year. We are top in our sector for inspirational leadership, with a strong heritage and an exciting future. We are one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers, and insurers. Our goal is to create value for our customers and society, enabling our people to make meaningful impacts through their work.

If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture that encourages collaboration among diverse backgrounds and experiences. Our leaders care about your future and wellbeing, and we support career development and flexible working arrangements. We are committed to being open, mindful, and inclusive, and we welcome candidates with diverse needs and strengths. If you’re interested in learning more, we’d love to hear from you.