# Environments Manager

**Company:** [Digi2al Limited](https://jobs.workable.com/companies/4fW2vg9H6spqQXSgSLnGp9.md)
**Location:** Portsmouth, United Kingdom
**Workplace:** hybrid
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** DNA

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## Description

This Project drives the Royal Navy’s capability by delivering digital solutions that increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and availability. Operating across Official and Secret domains, from shore to sea. 

Data & Navy Applications (DNA) provides end-to-end support for bespoke and procured applications. 

Environments Manager

We are seeking an experienced Environments Manager to oversee, govern, and optimize our end-to-end software environments (Development, Testing, UAT, Staging, and Production). In this role, you will act as the central point of contact for all environment-related initiatives, ensuring our engineering teams have reliable, secure, and cost-effective environments to build and deploy exceptional software.

The position requires a platform and technology agnostic approach, encompassing governance and support across all DNA development environments; including D2S, DNH, AHE(N), and Power Platform, as well as any future platforms established within the organisation.

### Key Responsibilities

-   Current State Assessment - Create a complete inventory of environments, owners, administrators, support arrangements and lifecycle status.
-   Define clear ownership, approval routes, accountability and decision-making processes for environment management.
-   Review privileged access, implement role-based permissions and ensure compliance with security and audit requirements.
-   Establish ownership of environment costs, funding approval processes and ongoing financial reporting.
-   Introduce standard processes for environment creation, onboarding, change, support, review and decommissioning.
-   Develop dashboards, KPIs and risk reporting to provide visibility of environment health, compliance and costs.

-   Partner with other teams to ensure environments meet project requirements and are delivered on time without bottlenecking the CI/CD pipeline.
-   Act as an escalation point for environment-related outages or performance degradation, coordinating rapid resolution and conducting root-cause analysis.
-   Champion automation (e.g. Infrastructure as Code) and self-service capabilities to streamline environment provisioning and reduce manual toil.
-   Work closely with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and third-party tooling vendors to optimise performance and licensing.

## Requirements

Must haves:

-   Proven track record in IT Environment Management, Release Management, or IT Operations within a software house, SaaS provider, or technology-driven organization.
-   Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
-   Experience implementing ITIL or similar frameworks, managing RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), and enforcing compliance in software environments.
-   Solid understanding of cloud cost management, forecasting, and budget optimization for infrastructure.
-   Ability to analyze complex data to produce actionable Management Information and executive dashboards.
-   Exceptional stakeholder management skills, capable of negotiating and communicating clearly with both highly technical engineers and senior business leaders.

Nice to haves:

-   Experience in MOD or defence

## Benefits

Start date: ASAP

IR35: Outside IR35

Location: Portsmouth

Contract length: Until Mar 2027 (with possible extension)

Minimum security level: SC

Nationality specification : Sole British Citizen (due to Client security requirement)

Number of days on site: 5 per fortnightly sprint