Senior Release, Platform & Environment Manager

Senior Release, Platform & Environment Manager

6-Month contract - Inside IR35 - up to £530 per day

Hybrid working - 2-3 days onsite - either London, Birmingham or Glasgow

Must be eligible for Security Clearance

The role will assess the current non-production environment estate, establish a clear view of environment status and dependencies, improve environment, release and configuration-management processes, and develop practical recommendations and a phased improvement roadmap.

Key responsibilities

Review existing engagement documentation, findings and work completed to date.
Rapidly establish the status of the client's non-production environments.
Validate the environment inventory across the in-scope platforms and applications.
Identify environment ownership, purpose, availability, current usage and dependencies.
Review existing release-management and deployment processes.
Assess routes to live across development, system testing, UAT, pre-production and production.
Facilitate workshops with platform leads, architects, DevOps teams, release managers, test managers, value streams and third parties.
Capture environment requirements for development, functional testing, integration testing, UAT and performance testing.
Review the current DevOps, CI/CD and deployment-tooling landscape.
Identify manual environment and deployment activities that could be automated.

Essential experience

Extensive experience in enterprise environment management, release management, deployment management or platform operations.
Proven experience assessing complex environment estates and establishing their current operational status.
Experience restoring, stabilising or improving non-production environments.
Strong experience coordinating releases and deployments across multiple applications, projects and technical teams.
Experience developing and maintaining environment and release calendars.
Strong understanding of routes to live across development, testing, UAT, pre-production and production.
Experience defining and embedding practical release, deployment and environment-management processes.
Strong understanding of software configuration management, version control and deployment artefact management.
Experience managing configuration baselines, environment-specific settings and configuration drift.
Experience working with third-party software vendors and managed-service providers.
Experience defining operational runbooks, support procedures and stakeholder communications.
Working knowledge of Azure, cloud platforms, DevOps tooling and CI/CD pipelines.
Experience with Git-based source control and automated build and deployment tooling.

Desirable experience

Familiarity with Plutora, ServiceNow, BMC Helix or similar IT service-management tooling.
Experience improving CMDB quality and configuration-management processes.
Experience managing product upgrades, platform re-establishment or vendor-supported software installations.
ITIL or relevant release, environment, configuration or DevOps certification.Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed