Environment and Release Manager

Join a collaborative digital transformation team delivering impactful outcomes through engineering excellence. Enjoy flexible working, an inclusive culture, and the opportunity to lead environment management, release governance, and DevOps adoption across complex enterprise systems.

As the Environment & Release Manager, you'll oversee the full lifecycle of non-production environments and manage end-to-end release processes across a major transformation program. Working closely with delivery, engineering, and vendor teams, you'll ensure environments remain stable, secure, and aligned to project milestones while driving continuous improvement and automation.

Key responsibilities:

• Manage development, test, UAT, staging, and pre-production environments across enterprise platforms.
• Ensure environment stability, security, availability, and compliance.
• Coordinate provisioning, refreshes, configuration management, and test data activities.
• Establish governance frameworks, standards, and usage policies.
• Monitor environment performance and drive optimisation initiatives.
• Lead resolution of environment-related incidents and root cause analysis.
• Own end-to-end release planning, coordination, deployment, and governance.
• Manage release schedules, dependencies, and readiness activities.
• Facilitate go/no-go decisions, deployments, and post-release reviews.
• Champion DevOps practices, CI/CD automation, and operational efficiency.

What you bring

You are an experienced technology leader with a strong background managing enterprise environments and releases across both cloud and legacy platforms. You bring a collaborative leadership style, excellent stakeholder engagement skills, and a passion for driving delivery excellence within complex transformation programmes.

Key requirements:

• Proven experience in Environment Manager, Engineering Manager, Technical Manager, or similar leadership roles.
• Strong experience with .NET, Azure, and enterprise application delivery.
• Experience with Dynamics 365/CRM and Finance & Operations environments.
• Knowledge of both cloud and legacy infrastructure environments.
• Track record leading teams in Agile and DevOps environments.
• Strong expertise in CI/CD pipelines, release management, and Azure governance.
• Experience working within complex, regulated enterprise environments.
• Excellent stakeholder and vendor management skills.
• Background in software engineering, solution architecture, or related technical disciplines.
• Confidence liaising with senior stakeholders
• Experience working with geographically disperse teams is desirable