Environment & Release Manager

ROLE PURPOSE

The Test Environment and Release Manager will own the environment strategy and the release management process that is required to support multiple programs of work across a large architectural landscape. This role will implement automated processes to streamline the release process and ensure environment availability, reliability and stability. This role forms part of the ‘Centre of Excellence’, providing services across agile and end‑to‑end teams.

• Accountable for the creation and implementation of the Environment Test Strategy that will support a broad variety of testing projects across a large and complex landscape architecture
• Test environment planning and coordination, ensuring environments are available where necessary
• Test environment configuration and maintenance, ensuring all test environment configurations are understood, documented and are consistent across environments
• Build real‑time dashboards to monitor the health and performance of all test environments
• Build real‑time dashboards that enable software versions to be tracked
• Manage release related risks, issues, and cross‑platform deployment dependencies
• Implement appropriate Test Environment Governance, ensuring the right level of user access and privileges
• Implementation of the Test Data Strategy ensuring that any production data sets are anonymised
• Support the QA team in investigating errors found in deployments and providing first‑line support for environment defect triages
• Work with QA and development teams to automate the deployment process and strategically move towards Continuous Integration (CI)
• Develop Key Performance indicators (KPIs) to track efficiency of test environment delivery efforts
• Create and maintain environment roadmaps and plans to deliver test environments
• Coordinate with stakeholders (internal and external) regarding the availability of test environments
• Communicate test environment availability to project management and quality assurance teams
• Schedule downtime with stakeholders in periods of low usage to minimise impact to ongoing testing activities

• Experience of Environment and Release Management, supporting on‑prem and cloud‑based environment strategies
• Strong knowledge in web application and open‑source technologies, particularly, Java, Apache, Tomcat, web services, APIs and service virtualization
• Experience of working with Linux, AIX and Windows operating systems
• Knowledge and experience of SQL across various database implementations, including DB2, Oracle and MySQL
• Understanding of IT security concepts, APM tools
• Knowledge of different operating systems (Windows / Linux) and knowledge of AWS
• Appreciation of different delivery models (Agile/Waterfall) and the effect that utilizing these models might have on the requirements of the Test Environments
• Understanding of code branching techniques
• Awareness of development tools used in software development (Jenkins/GIT/Subversion)
• Hands‑on experience of supporting CI/CD pipelines

Allwyn is an Equal Opportunity Employer which prides itself on being diverse and inclusive. We do not tolerate discrimination, harassment, or victimisation in the workplace. All employment decisions at Allwyn are based on the business needs, the job requirements, and the individual qualifications. Allwyn encourages applications from individuals regardless of age, disability (visible or hidden), sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage and civil partnerships.

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays)
• Annual bonus scheme
• 2 x Life Days
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5%
• Single Private Health Cover
• £500 Wellness Allowance
• Income Protection
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity)
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes

The role requires the person to be in the office 3 days per week at our Watford office.