Adecco
Engineering Environments Lead
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Engineering Environments Lead - (Platform & Environment Strategy)
Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester
12 months - Inside IR35
Our client, a leading global technology company, is looking for an experienced Engineering Environments Lead to drive the transformation of a large-scale engineering environment estate.
This is a senior leadership role focused on driving improvements across environment strategy, operational stability, disaster recovery, automation, self-service capabilities, and governance. You'll work closely with Product Engineering leaders to develop a scalable, resilient, and modern environment model supporting development, testing, and production services across a complex enterprise landscape.
Key Responsibilities
- Define and deliver the engineering environments strategy.
- Drive improvements in environment stability, availability, and performance.
- Lead disaster recovery, resilience, and business continuity initiatives.
- Implement automation and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Establish governance, standards, ownership models, and best practices across the environment estate.
- Work closely with Engineering, Product, Platform, and Infrastructure teams to support delivery at scale.
- Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps, SRE, and Environment as Code.
- Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and operational excellence.
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Experience Required
- Proven experience leading engineering or enterprise environment functions within a large, complex organization.
- Strong background in environment strategy, governance, and operational management.
- Experience delivering automation, Infrastructure as Code, and self-service initiatives.
- Good understanding of cloud platforms, platform engineering, and SRE principles.
- Experience driving resilience, disaster recovery, and service continuity programs.
- Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage and influence senior leaders.
- Track record of leading transformation and change across engineering teams and technology estates.
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Desirable Skills
- Terraform, Ansible, or similar automation tools.
- Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- CI/CD and DevOps tooling.
- Observability and monitoring solutions.
- Environment as Code and modern platform engineering practices.
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