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, 3rd 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 life cycle.
• 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