IT Environments & Testing Manager

IT Environments & Testing Manager

£600 a day (Inside IR35)

Northwest (Hybrid 1-2 days onsite)

3-6 Months

Role

The IT Environments Manager will play a critical role in building and maintaining an environment management capability for IT Services. We are looking for an experienced and proactive IT Environments Manager to lead the management, coordination, and continuous improvement of our IT environments across the software development lifecycle. This is a critical role that ensures consistency, availability, and integrity of development, testing, staging, and production environments in support of agile delivery and operational excellence. The IT Environments Manager will ensure a stable and efficient software development and testing process, helping to reduce downtime, improve security and enhance the overall software quality.

The Person

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:

• Proven experience in managing IT environments or infrastructure within enterprise-level IT departments.
• The ability to define and maintain the environment management strategy for the IT platforms and infrastructure
• Management of stakeholder relationships
• Ability to lead both technical & non-technical meetings and discussions.
• Understanding of secure by design principles.
• Knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards in IT environments.
• Strong understanding of application lifecycle management and DevOps processes.
• Familiarity with cloud (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and on-premises environments.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible) and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab).
• Proactive approach to issue resolution and process improvement.
• Understanding of database management, networking, and system administration

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the lifecycle of IT environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Staging, Production).
• Coordinate environment provisioning, configuration, and maintenance with internal teams and external partners.
• Collaborate closely with development, QA, DevOps and infrastructure teams to have standard release management processes and environment readiness.
• Maintain a detailed environments schedule and forecast usage and changes.
• Monitor performance, availability, and capacity of environments; troubleshoot and resolve
• Ensure environments are compliant, consistent with configuration management standards.
• Drive automation and efficiency improvements in environment provisioning and deployment pipelines.
• Create and maintain comprehensive environment documentation and knowledge base.
• Support release and deployment by managing refreshes and data masking strategies.

Desirable Qualifications / Skills

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field.
• ITIL, AWS, Azure, or other relevant certifications.
• Experience in data masking, synthetic data generation, and environment orchestration tools.

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