SC Cleared Environments Manager | Cloud & Release Ops

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; England; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd. seeks an Environments Manager to own governance, optimisation and management of software development environments across a complex digital estate.

You will be the central point for environment activities, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-effective environments from Development through Production. You will drive best practice, improve operational efficiency and support high-quality software delivery.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in IT Environment Management, Release Management or IT Operations.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes containerisation.
• Knowledge of ITIL or similar operational frameworks.
• RBAC, governance and compliance expertise.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain an inventory of environments, owners, admins, support, and lifecycle status.
• Establish ownership, governance, approval processes, and accountability across all environments.
• Manage privileged access controls, RBAC, and compliance requirements.
• Oversee environment costs, funding approvals, and financial reporting.
• Implement standardised provisioning, onboarding, change management, support, and decommissioning.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs and executive reporting on environment performance, risks and costs.
• Collaborate with engineering and project teams to ensure environments support delivery.
• Escalation point for incidents, outages and performance issues; drive root cause analysis.
• Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service to reduce manual work.
• Liaise with cloud providers and vendors to optimise performance and licensing.

Skills

IT Environment Management

Release Management

IT Operations

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD

ITIL

RBAC & Governance

Cost Forecasting

Executive Reporting

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd. seeks an Environments Manager to own governance, optimisation and management of software development environments across a complex digital estate.

You will be the central point for environment activities, ensuring secure, reliable, and cost-effective environments from Development through Production. You will drive best practice, improve operational efficiency and support high-quality software delivery.