Environment Manager

Environment Manager
Location : London
Role Type: Permanent Work Setup: Hybrid
Salary: £120K

Who We Are

We have an exciting new opportunity for an Environment Manager to Join Robert Walters as a Workforce Consultant. As an Employed Workforce Consultant, you will benefit from permanent employment with Robert Walters and will be deployed on an interim or project basis into our clients' organisations, in return we will provide you with an opportunity to develop your skills with ongoing training and professional accreditations.

The role
We are seeking candidates with experience as as an Environment Manager who can lead the planning, coordination, and governance of non-production environments across critical banking platforms, ensuring stable, secure Dev, QA, Staging, and Pre-Production environments that support SDLC, testing, release timelines, and compliance in regulated financial environments.

What You'll Do

Environment Planning & Coordination

• Manage provisioning, configuration, and scheduling across Dev, QA, UAT, and pre-production and ensure environment availability aligns with project and release timelines.
• Maintain enterprise-wide environment calendar; coordinate usage across programs and teams.

Operational Integrity & Control

• Own SLOs and uptime for non-production environments; identify and resolve potential failures.
• Enforce strict policies and automated checks to prevent drift, keeping the 'Golden Image' consistent across all environments for reliable testing.
• Lead incident resolution across Infrastructure, Network, Database teams and ensure environments comply with security policies and regulatory requirements.

Governance & Compliance

• Enforce access controls, data masking, and segregation of duties (SOX, PRA/FCA, GDPR).
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support internal/external audits.
• Coordinate with Release Management to resolve booking conflicts and ensure smooth handovers.
• Partner with Data/Compliance teams to automate secure data refresh, masking and mentor Environment Analysts for consistent operations and skill development.

Operational Excellence

• Monitor environment health, proactively resolving issues.
• Coordinate refreshes, data loads, configuration updates and implement automation to streamline provisioning and reduce manual effort.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as the primary contact for environment requests and issues, collaborating with delivery managers, developers, testers, and release teams, while communicating environment status, risks, and constraints to stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or related field.
• Extensive experience in environment management, IT infrastructure, DevOps, or IT operations, preferably in banking or financial services.
• Strong understanding of environment life cycle management, CI/CD pipelines, ITIL practices, and technical governance.
• Hands-on experience with environment management and CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab), ITSM platforms (ServiceNow), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with data privacy, compliance, data masking, and test data management.
• Skilled in managing technical teams, influencing cross-functional stakeholders, and handling complex shared resource allocation.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Knowledge of modern application architectures (microservices) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• ITIL Foundation certification or higher is desired

What's Next

If you are ready to take the next step, apply now! Successful applicants will be contacted directly by a recruiter to discuss the role more.

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This position is being recruited on behalf of our client through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, acts as an employment business and agency, partnering with top organizations to help them find the best talent. We welcome applications from all candidates and are committed to providing equal opportunities.