Environment & Release Manager

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Environment & Release Manager to join our client’s team in Gloucestershire.  The Environment & Release Manager will work collaboratively across the business to ensure releases are delivered on schedule and within budget with minimal disruption to services. This role offers 80% remote working.

Key Skills & Experience:

• At least 5 years’ experience of change, release and environment management in multi-company, international environments (multiple and shared databases)
• Knowledge of different delivery platforms; performance testing and user testing
• Working with multiple external service suppliers and implementation partners
• Service delivery and IS process (ITIL, Agile)
• Awareness and use of DEVOPS tools for Continuous Integration and Deployment
• Ability to operate at all levels of an organisation
• Proven stakeholder management
• Process capture management skills
• Record of delivering IS transformation
• Facilitator of process design workshops
• Good knowledge of financial admin and project budget/costing

Desirable:

• ITIL Framework qualification and experience
• Project management (Prince 2 Practitioner (pragmatic approach), Agile, PMI)

Responsibilities:

• Own Release Management strategy, policies and processes
• Rollout Release Management processes within divisional Competency Centre(s) and govern ongoing compliance
• Manage all Steam business systems project and program release management processes
• Lead and co-ordinate the Go-Live activities including the execution of the deployment plans and checklists

• Own Environments alignment strategy, policies and processes for business systems
• Set the rules around use of environments by multiple teams
• Manage and maintain the environments required by projects and programs during ongoing model development, global rollout and support
• Co-ordinate alignment of configuration, master, reference and transactional data across integrated business systems

Location:  Gloucestershire

Candidates must be eligible to work in this country.