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Job title: Environments Manager
Duration: 9 months
Pay: £500-600 per day PAYE
Location: 2 days per week in our Stratford, London office
In September 2026, 50% hybrid working in office across the month
About the organisation
Our client is an independent regulatory body in the UK responsible for ensuring the financial markets work well for the consumers and the economy, promoting market integrity and effective competition.
About the role
The role has two main responsibilities: coordinating multiple projects across infrastructure and software systems, and managing environments. This involves overseeing 30–40 concurrent projects, ensuring there are no conflicts between changes being made to the same applications or infrastructure, and working proactively with delivery partners across different product groups to ensure plans are credible and aligned. It also includes managing a range of environments, from development and testing through to production, supporting the full route-to-live process. As these environments are connected to those of other product groups and exchange data, the role requires close collaboration with counterparts across teams to coordinate and test changes that have cross-group impacts.
Responsibilities
- Establishing and providing ongoing control of the inventory of environments, managing the scheduling and allocation of environments and ensuring that non-production environments are representative of Production and any anomalies are identified and resolved
- Managing the resolution of all environment incidents raised in the non-production environments and managing the resolution of risks/vulnerabilities found across the environments being used to support the Product Groups
- Improving the performance and simplification of the provision of infrastructure for projects and IT Services, gathering clear environment requirements and ensuring the environments are scheduled in line with project timescales
- Identifying and implementing opportunities for cross project synergies, and implementing a target environment landscape
- Ensuring the economic use of environment resources by spotting opportunities for efficiencies
- Defining and continuously improving the environment management approach, frameworks, policies, procedures and processes ensuring compliance with standards and policies (i.e. security)
- Educating others and quality assuring their use to ensure the approach is followed and enabling the timely and accurate delivery of environments
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- Proven experience running live or test environment operations in financial services or governmental / regulatory body
- Experience coordinating projects and driving technical change across infrastructure and enterprise application environments.
- Strong technical delivery experience, including designing and implementing infrastructure and application changes.
- Working knowledge of AWS infrastructure.
Essential:
- Experience managing stakeholders, risks, and technical deliverables.
- Technical skills including Java, JavaScript, and Angular.
- Experience working across project lifecycles in Agile delivery environments.
- Broad technology knowledge, covering all major infrastructure platforms and service lines.
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