Environments Lead

Overview

The Environments Lead is a hands-on technical leader responsible for the day-to-day operations, setup, and optimisation of environments used throughout the software development lifecycle. This role works closely with engineering, QA, and release teams to ensure environments are fit for purpose and support high-quality delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the setup, configuration, and maintenance of development and test environments.
• Act as the technical point of contact for environment-related issues and escalations.
• Collaborate with Cloud and DevOps engineers to implement scalable and automated environment solutions.
• Support performance testing and troubleshoot environment bottlenecks.
• Ensure environment integrity through version control, patching, and rollback strategies.
• Assist in release planning by validating environment readiness and dependencies.
• Maintain environment monitoring dashboards and logs.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to environment-related best practices.
• Executes DR testing, validating system recovery, integrations, and service resilience post-fail over to ensure continuity and adherence to high-availability and recovery objectives.
• implements monitoring and observability frameworks, using CNCF and commercial tooling, to accelerate root cause analysis and reduce Mean-Time-to-Recovery (MTTR)

Essential skills

• Strong scripting and automation skills (Python, Bash, PowerShell).
• Strong documentation and collaboration skills.

Experience

• Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure and containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Familiarity with performance engineering and load testing tools.
• Experience in supporting QA and development teams with environment needs.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex environment issues across layers (network, application, database).

Benefits

• Collaborative working environment – we stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients and our peers through good times and challenges  
• We empower all passionate technology loving professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects   
• Expleo Academy - enables you to acquire and develop the right skills by delivering a suite of accredited training courses  
• Competitive company benefits
• Always working as one team, our people are not afraid to think big and challenge the status quo 

• As a Disability Confident Committed Employer we have committed to:
  • Ensure our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible
  • Communicating and promoting vacancies
  • Offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job
  • Anticipating and providing reasonable adjustments as required
  • Supporting any existing employee who acquires a disability or long term health condition, enabling them to stay in work at least one activity that will make a difference for disabled people

“We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age”. 

We treat everyone fairly and equitably across the organisation, including providing any additional support and adjustments needed for everyone to thrive