Environments Manager - Manchester

Environment Manager

Rate - £720 (a day)

Location - Machester (Hybrid)

Durarion - 3 Months (Inititally)

Ir35 - Inside

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 University's IT platforms and infrastructure
• Management of stakeholder relationships, both within IT Services and the wider University
• 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).
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Proactive approach to issue resolution and process improvement.
• Understanding of database management, networking, and system administration concepts

Key Responsibilities

• Own and manage the end-to-end 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 environment-related issues.
• Ensure environments are secure, compliant, and 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 activities by managing environment refreshes and data masking strategies.

• 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.