Gleeson Recruitment Group have just been briefed on a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Environments and Release Manager to join an established and growing business based just outside of Birmingham.

Key role accountabilities include:

Strategic Planning:

• Develop and maintain the environment roadmap, focusing on environment management evolution, issue resolution, and housekeeping to ensure platforms are fit for purpose.
• Evaluate and implement new software deployment and configuration management methodologies and technologies.
• Work with the Head of Engineering to increase automated deployment throughput and minimise release dependencies.

Environment Coordination:

• Determine and coordinate the environments used in software development and deployment across all platforms.
• Collaborate with internal technical teams and third-party suppliers to determine the delivery approach, ensuring the support of automated deployment.
• Collaborate with internal technical teams and third-party suppliers to manage and guide the broader application deployment life cycle including design, planning, environment configuration, CI/CD, monitoring, support documentation, and continuous improvement.

Release Management:

• Manage all end-to-end release activities, including planned development, rehearsals, and production implementation.
• Coordinate release content and effort based on the service request backlog, pending service requests, third-party applications, or operating system updates.

Automation and Tools:

• Collaborate with platform engineers to develop scripts and automation tools to build, integrate, and deploy software releases across various platforms.

Issue and Risk Management:

• Own and resolve any build issues, ensuring timely and effective solutions.
• Manage and report on risks, resolving issues that affect release scope, schedule, and quality.
• Proactively identify potential and existing environmental issues to minimise disruption to testing and release timelines.

Process Improvement:

• Continually improve the release and environment provisioning processes through DevOps and automation principles, defining and maintaining effective, lean processes for managing releases.
• Facilitate compliance and security audits, plan and close audit findings with the help of recommendations.

About You

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following knowledge, skills and attributes:

Essential:

As the Environments and Release Manager, you will have:

• Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication (verbal and written) skills
• Proven ability and track record managing Microsoft centric software environments
• Strong planning and Organisational skills
• Enthusiasm to work across multiple teams and projects
• Excellent team working. Strong people and stakeholder management skills
• An eye and a passion for detail/accuracy

Desirable:

Competencies

• Ability to thrive in a demanding and fluid organisation
• Positive energy and positive attitude
• Ability to get things done and make things happen
• Articulate confidently and communicate effectively
• Well organised and self-disciplined
• Well developed interpersonal and communication skills
• Azure DevOps (CI/CD, Pipelines, Branching, Merging, Terraform, ARM, etc.).
• Experience of working in an offshore/near-shore delivery model
• Experience of working in an FCA regulated/insurance environment
• Experience of working in an agile environment

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