Product Engineering Environment Lead

The Opportunity

In this role, you will take lead in transforming a complex, fragmented technical estate into an automated, high-performing environment. Operating within an enterprise-scale hybrid framework, you will streamline dev, test, and production environments across private cloud, public cloud, network topologies, and specialized physical hardware.

• Operating Model Transformation:
  Clarify responsibilities across SDLC and SRE functions to define clean ownership, clear interfaces, and improved throughput.
• Estate Stabilization:
  Improve availability, consistency, and provision lead times-especially across environments integrated with physical hardware.
• Resilience & Disaster Recovery:
  Mature High Availability posture, resolve critical risks, and establish tested recovery capabilities with defensible RTO/RPO metrics.
• Automation & Self-Service:
  Drive Infrastructure/Environments as Code (IaC/EaC), automated provisioning, and observability to enable on-demand instantiation.

• Professional Background:
  Proven track record leading enterprise-scale environment estates, spanning hybrid cloud and physical/network infrastructure.
• Automation & Tooling:
  Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Environment-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks.
• SRE, SDLC & DR Depth:
  Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, toil reduction), release management, and High Availability/Disaster Recovery design and testing.
• Key
  
  Competencies:
  
  Financial and commercial acumen to build cost/value narratives, strong documentation skills, and structured leadership in matrixed environments.

This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately.