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Environment Lead (Outside IR35 - Watford)

  • Posted September 25, 2024
  • £325 - £375 per day
  • Environment Lead (Outside IR35) / 6 month contract / Watford - Hybrid
  • Contract

Environment Lead / £350pd – £375pd (Outside IR35) / 6 Month Contract / Watford based

My client is looking for an Environment Lead to join a large programme of work on a contract basis. This role will require you to be onsite in Watford 3 days a week.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Create and Implement Config Management across all environments
  • Hands on delivery of Production Environment
  • Support FIC Environment Challenges
  • Engage and support project delivery teams and BAU maintenance teams 
  • Analyse environment requirements 
  • Deliver development and test environments (system test, UAT, performance) 
  • Document environments and underlying components to appropriate standards 
  • Maintain, refresh and recycle environments, including access control and deployment of software builds for testing (In house developed software, 3^rd party software) 
  • Capacity management (storage, memory, processors) 
  • Provide technical consultancy on environments and software deployment – expertise on underlying infrastructure, technologies and tools (across all In house IT application development areas)   
  • Support continuous improvement initiatives (keep abreast of industry trends, implement best practice, evaluate new tools and techniques, automate processes, upgrade underlying technologies) 
  • Point of contact to engage and provide support to business and technical stakeholders of the project.
  • To work closely with key business owners/stakeholders, Business project managers and the IT delivery teams to ensure a high quality, on time project to agreed scope.
  • Working with other programmes/projects in technology and wider business to actively manage issues, risks and dependencies, within the Environment landscape
  • Manage conflicts to ensure they do not impact delivery·      

Key experience

Must Have:

  • Experience of applying different IT delivery methodologies, such as Agile, Scrum, Lean and Waterfall
  • Proven delivery experience within a complex IT environment with significant volume of change
  • Experience of environment management and associated tools, methodologies and approaches
  • Experience of IT architecture and infrastructure. Experience of the systems development lifecycle. Experience of project management principles, tools and methodologies
  • Familiarity with industry standard software and databases
  • Use of formal tools for software control
  • Use of formal tools for managing software packages
  • Use of formal tools for deploying software, eg Jenkins Experience of various software environments
  • Working knowledge of industry best practice, good network/links with individuals in the same field

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