Location
London

Hours
Full Time - Hybrid Work Mode

About the Role
A Test Environment Manager (TEM) plays a critical role in transforming the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) environment by focusing on system reliability, automation, and performance within non-production settings. This engineering-focused role involves automating environment lifecycle management, establishing service level objectives, monitoring environment health, managing incident response, and driving continuous improvement to ensure test environments meet the evolving needs of development and testing teams.

The TEM will lead initiatives to automate provisioning and configuration of test environments using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), integrate environments with CI/CD pipelines, and use observability tools like Prometheus and Grafana to proactively identify and resolve issues. The role also emphasizes fostering a reliability culture, balancing speed and stability through error budgets, capacity planning, and advancing test data management in collaboration with Test Data Managers.

This position requires a strategic mindset to analyze performance data, lead incident management with blameless post-mortems, and promote collaboration across development, QA, and SRE teams to ensure scalable, reliable, and compliant test environments.

Experience
15+ years of experience in test environment management or related roles with a strong focus on automation, reliability engineering, and performance optimization in non-production environments.

Technical Skills
- Expertise with monitoring and logging tools such as Prometheus, Splunk, and Grafana
- Proficiency in CI/CD platforms like Jenkins and GitLab CI
- Experience with configuration management tools including Ansible and Terraform
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure, particularly AWS, and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes
- Strong scripting skills in Python or Bash for automation tasks
- Solid understanding of Linux systems, networking concepts, and database management

About You
- Demonstrated leadership and ability to influence technical and business stakeholders
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills to investigate and resolve complex environment issues under pressure
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills to effectively bridge development, QA, and operations teams
- Proactive and adaptable mindset to keep pace with evolving technologies and development methodologies
- Commitment to fostering a blameless culture and shared ownership of reliability across teams