Environment Manager

• Define, implement, and govern the environment and release strategy for the programme, ensuring all environments are fit-for-purpose, compliant, and aligned with organisational standards to support successful delivery
• Establish governance processes for the full environment lifecycle management
• maintain a central repository for governance documentation, tooling standards, branching strategies, and naming conventions
• Manage environment calendars and readiness across all workstreams, proactively maintaining risk logs and resolving environment conflicts to ensure seamless coordination
• Gate releases to ensure compliance with SDLC, security, and resilience standards
• drive automation in release and test processes to continuously improve efficiency and reliability
• Implement access control models, FinOps guidance, and security governance templates
• monitor and mitigate environment-related risks to maintain compliance and operational integrity
• Partner with cloud architects, infrastructure engineers, and delivery leads
• secure stakeholder buy-in for standards and processes through excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Define and enforce best practices across release management, tooling, and environment standards to ensure consistency, repeatability, and quality across the programme

14+ years of experience as an Environment Manager with a strong understanding of SDLC, DevOps, and cloud-based environments, with proven expertise in environment management for large-scale programmes