SC Cleared Release Manager

A leading technology organisation supporting critical national operations is seeking an experienced Environments Manager to take ownership of the governance, optimisation and management of software development environments across a complex digital estate.

This role will act as the central point of contact for all environment-related activities, ensuring engineering teams have secure, reliable and cost-effective environments across Development, Testing, UAT, Staging and Production. The successful candidate will drive best practice, improve operational efficiency and support the delivery of high-quality software solutions.

• Create and maintain a complete inventory of environments, owners, administrators, support arrangements and life cycle status.
• Establish clear ownership, governance frameworks, approval processes and accountability across all environments.
• Manage privileged access controls, role-based permissions and compliance requirements.
• Oversee environment costs, funding approvals and ongoing financial reporting.
• Implement standardised processes for environment provisioning, onboarding, change management, support, review and decommissioning.
• Develop dashboards, KPIs and reporting to provide visibility of environment performance, risks, compliance and costs.
• Collaborate with engineering and project teams to ensure environments are available to support successful software delivery.
• Act as the escalation point for environment-related incidents, outages and performance issues, driving resolution and root cause analysis.
• Champion automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
• Work closely with cloud providers and third-party vendors to optimise platform performance and licensing.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in IT Environment Management, Release Management or IT Operations within a software, SaaS or technology-led organisation.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Experience with containerisation technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and modern software delivery practices.
• Experience implementing ITIL or similar operational frameworks.
• Strong understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), governance and compliance requirements.
• Experience managing cloud infrastructure costs, forecasting and budget optimisation.
• Ability to produce meaningful management information, metrics and executive-level reporting.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to engage technical teams and senior leadership.

Desirable Experience

• Experience working within defence, government or highly regulated environments.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission. Where the role is marked as Outside IR35 in the advertisement this is subject to receipt of a final Status Determination Statement from the end Client and may be subject to change.