Overview

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Job title: Test Environment Manager

Job location: London, UK

Job type: Contract FTC

Job mode: Hybrid 3 days office and 2 days work from home

Experience Level: 15+ Years

This role involves owning the automation, reliability, and governance of test environments to support development and testing teams.

Responsibilities

• Automate environment lifecycle: Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to automate provisioning, teardown, and configuration of test environments, integrating them with the CI/CD pipeline.
• Establish service level objectives (SLOs): Define and measure key service indicators (SLIs) for test environments, such as availability and provisioning time.
• Monitor environment health and performance: Use observability tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana) to track health, identify bottlenecks, and resolve issues proactively.
• Manage incident response: Lead incident management for test environment issues, conducting blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and implement lasting fixes.
• Minimize toil: Automate manual, repetitive tasks to free up engineering time for more strategic work.
• Strategic and cultural responsibilities: Drive continuous improvement by analyzing environment performance data, incident reports, and post-mortems; balance reliability and speed using an error budget; promote a blameless culture across development, QA, and SRE teams; engage in capacity planning to scale infrastructure; advance test data management with Test Data Managers.

Qualifications

• Technical Skills: Expertise with monitoring and logging tools (Prometheus, Splunk, Grafana); CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitLab CI); and configuration management tools (Ansible, Terraform).
• Cloud infrastructure knowledge: Deep understanding of AWS, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless computing.
• Scripting and programming: Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash.
• Systems and networking: Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking concepts, and database management.

Soft Skills

• Leadership and influence: Champion SRE practices and influence stakeholders across teams.
• Problem-solving: Analytical and debugging skills for complex environment issues.
• Communication: Clear collaboration across development, QA, and operations.
• Adaptability: Proactive and adaptable to evolving technology and methodologies.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Contract

Job function

• Management and Manufacturing
• Industries: IT Services and IT Consulting

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