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

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

Working for a leading International Specialist Insurance client based in the beating heart on London, we have an urgent requirement for an IT Release & Environments Lead to manage the Production & Non-Production Environments (ie Development, Testing, Integration and E2E).

This needs to be understood, managed and be ready for use by the relevant teams and will require excellent organisational, directional and coordination of 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.

Role Responsibilities & Accountabilities Include:-

• 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 eg build, integrate, test etc
• 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
• Ensuring adequate checks are in place and completed ahead of any release (production)
• Communicates release management objectives, concepts and processes
• Create and track the release improvement process
• Ensures environment stands up to security measures and legislation
• Oversee the overall co-ordination 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 Environment such as AWS and Azure would be beneficial
• Experience of Monitoring, analysing, and optimize cloud spending across Cloud platforms would be beneficial
• Lucid Chart, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Knowledge of IT Release and Environmental best practice, or a desire to learn those.

Please note:- In addition to a very strong benefits package (Bonus, Pension, Healthcare etc.), the client are potentially flexible on their salary in order to attract the very best candidates they can - please contact me for further information.