IT Environment & Release Analyst

TN United Kingdom; Hove; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking an IT Environment & Release Analyst to enhance stability and control within its IT environments. This role involves managing non-production environments, orchestrating their usage, and acting as a gatekeeper for all releases. The ideal candidate will bring innovative solutions to an IT function, ensuring compliance with best practices while supporting project delivery and environment management. Join a dynamic team that values collaboration and offers a range of benefits, including generous holiday and pension contributions, while contributing to a diverse and inclusive culture.

Benefits

Annual performance-related bonus plan

Generous pension contributions

Life assurance

Private medical insurance

25+ days holiday

Competitive family leave

Electric car scheme

Discounts on products and stores

Modern office spaces

Qualifications

• Experience in managing IT environments and release processes.
• Strong understanding of IT infrastructure and cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Manage and support application environments, ensuring integrity and configuration.
• Define and maintain Environment Strategies and IT Controls in line with best practices.

Skills

IT Environmental Management

Release Management

IT Infrastructure

DevOps/Agile Environment

Cloud Experience (AWS/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 application environments, facilitating definition, creation, build, deployment, and maintenance (including upgrades) to ensure the integrity of environments. Managing the full configuration status of each environment, including OS versions, patch status, and 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 environment 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 profiles and supporting cost reduction efforts.
5. Negotiating, planning, and managing all release/deployment activities to plan release windows and cycles across the estate, including task, resource, and dependency management. Producing and maintaining Run Books.
6. Supporting project delivery by defining and agreeing on requirements and providing expert knowledge on 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 periodically, including environment usage, forward planning, performance, capacity, and availability metrics.
8. Proactively monitoring incidents related to environments, facilitating incident closure, analyzing incident data for trend analysis, and contributing to continual improvement. Managing risks and resolving environment-related issues.

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 working in a DevOps/Agile environment.
• Cloud experience with AWS or Azure is a significant plus.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to participate in our annual performance-related bonus plan and share schemes.
• Generous pension contributions.
• 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. Holiday buy/sell options available.
• Competitive family leave.
• Participation in our electric car scheme, offering tax-efficient salary sacrifice for electric cars.
• Discounts on products and at various stores and online.
• Modern, collaborative office spaces designed to support wellbeing.

Additional Information:

Legal & General is a leading financial services organization, recognized in 2023 for the second consecutive year. Rated top in our sector for inspirational leadership, we are one of the world's largest asset managers, homebuilders, pension providers, and insurers. We are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive culture that values collaboration, integrity, and your future wellbeing.

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