Overview

IT Release & Environments Lead - Insurance - London - £70,000 p/a

Working for a leading International Specialist Insurance client based in the beating heart of London, we have an urgent requirement for an IT Release & Environments Lead to manage the Production & Non-Production Environments (i.e., Development, Testing, Integration and E2E). This role involves understanding, managing and coordinating all related activities (and environments) ready for releasing, supporting and maintaining the non-production estate and Path to Live, for both BAU and Project work.

Responsibilities & Accountabilities

• Champion FinOps processes, ensuring that infrastructure spend is managed
• Collaborate with development, testing, and delivery teams (service, infrastructure, project, partners etc.) to identify environment requirements for each stage of the delivery (e.g., build, integrate, test)
• Continue the development of Environment Directory reporting on low level environment detail
• Coordinate delivery of development, test and production environments (development, system test, UAT, Integration, Production, etc.)
• Work with technical specialists to document relevant environmental standards
• Provide release management consultation in a timely and efficient manner
• Ensure adequate checks are in place and completed ahead of any release (production)
• Communicate release management objectives, concepts and processes
• Create and track the release improvement process
• Ensure environments comply with security measures and legislation
• Oversee the overall coordination and management of all release and non-production environment activities
• Monitor the health and performance of the development and test environments
• Be the primary contact and escalation point for stakeholders
• Define and manage Release & Environment standards and frameworks

Technical Skills Required

• Knowledge of Cloud Environments such as AWS and Azure would be beneficial
• Experience in monitoring, analysing, and optimizing cloud spending across cloud platforms would be beneficial
• Lucidchart, JIRA, and Confluence
• Knowledge of IT Release and Environmental best practices, or a willingness to learn

Please note: In addition to a strong benefits package (Bonus, Pension, Healthcare, etc.), the client is potentially flexible on salary to attract the best candidates. Please contact for further information.