Platform and Environment Manager

NURSING & MIDWIFERY COUNCIL; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the UK seeks a motivated Platform & Environment Manager to oversee and manage production, preproduction, and development environments. The successful candidate will develop strategies for IT environments, coordinate release activities, and work within a DevOps framework to ensure efficient deployment of applications. This role is crucial in maintaining environment integrity and supporting the organization's transition to a Microsoft-first approach.

Qualifications

• Experience in developing IT environment strategies and procedures.
• Proven track record in managing release and deployment activities.
• Strong negotiating skills and capability to manage project costs.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end environments for application deployment.
• Develop procedures for IT environment management.
• Coordinate release schedules and manage risks affecting releases.

Skills

IT environment strategy

Release/deployment management

Cost management

Risk management

DevOps scripts development

Job description

We are enthusiastic about the role technology plays at the NMC. We are looking for an individual that shares the same passion in delivering the technology that makes a difference to everyone we interact with. In the last two years we've been undergoing a true transformation of the technology we use, we'd like you to help us to continue on our journey to becoming a Microsoft first organisation. If this is something you that motivates you we'd love to hear from you. We're looking for someone to Join us as an Platform & Environment Manager. This role is part of the Cloud & Infrastructure team within the Technology Services department. In this key role, you'll be managing a set of end-to-end environments used by the platform's applications to successfully implement platform change and deliver customer value. We'll look to you to adapt the design and delivery to meet a dynamic continuous deployment approach. You'll be working in a DevOps and Agile environment, acting as a central point of contact for all environment related activities. It's an opportunity to work with a range of stakeholders across the business and third-party suppliers, allowing you to expand your network and gain exposure for your work. About You The Nursing and Midwifery Council are recruiting for a Platform / Environment Manager to act as an owner over gair of production, preproduction and development environments; orchestrate their usage and establish an efficient service model, act as a gatekeeper for all releases to ensure the integrity of the environments. You will also manage the full configuration status of each of the environments from Operating System versions, patch status, software versioning, licensing and creation of software releases. You will report into the Cloud / Infrastructure Manager. We're looking for a highly motivated individual with the key skills and experience to:

• Develop IT environment strategy and procedures
• Maintain IT environment cost profile and lead projects to reduce associated costs
• Negotiate, plan and manage all release/deployment activities to forward plan the release windows and cycles across the estate from an environments perspective; including task, resource and dependency management
• Manage risks and resolve issues that affect releases as they pertain to the environments
• Maintain the release schedule for all services
• Co-ordinate release content and effort based on pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates
• Produce Deployment Run Books and Technical Implementation Plans/checklists
• Produce regular and accurate Release Reporting
• Communicate release details and schedules to the programme
• Work with DevOps to help develop scripts and automation tools used to build, integrate, and deploy software releases
• Participate in meetings, including CAB, to discuss release scope and roadblocks
• Maintain a release repository and manage key information such as build and release procedures, dependencies, and notification lists