Environments and Release Manager

The Church of England

. Manage the day-to-day operation and coordination of environments and releases .

Posted 9/23/2026full-timeUnited KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in managing IT environments, coordinating technology releases, and ensuring compliance with information security and change control requirements. Proficient in improving deployment automation, release quality, and governance while effectively communicating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

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Microsoft Azure/D365 Environment ManagementRelease Management CoordinationSoftware Testing and Quality AssuranceDevOps Tooling and Automated DeploymentITIL and Agile Methodologies

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Hard Skills

Environment ManagementRelease Readiness ActivityChange GovernanceTest Environment PreparationDeployment AutomationConfiguration ManagementRisk ManagementDependency ManagementAudit Trails and DocumentationPerformance Testing

Soft Skills

Planning and OrganizationProblem-SolvingClear CommunicationRelationship ManagementCommitment to Continuous Improvement

Tools & Technologies

DevOps PracticesAutomated Deployment PipelinesSaaS ApplicationsCloud-Hosted ApplicationsPRINCE2 Delivery Approaches

Industry Keywords

GovernanceChange ControlOperational ReadinessTransformation ProgrammesTesting Effectiveness

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureCloud

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Manage the day-to-day operation and coordination of environments and releases
Balance the needs of multiple projects and operational services while reducing delivery risk and improving change quality entering production
Manage development, test, UAT, training, staging and production environments, including provisioning, refreshes, upgrades, patching, access controls, configuration and dependency management
Plan and coordinate releases across environments and maintain deployment calendars
Support release readiness reviews and ensure rollback, contingency and recovery arrangements are in place
Ensure environments and test data are ready for system, integration, UAT, end-to-end, regression, performance, operational readiness and training activities
Align testing milestones with release plans and identify environment-related risks or issues
Support defect triage where configuration or environment problems affect testing outcomes
Maintain governance, audit trails, standards, documentation and reporting for environments and releases
Ensure compliance with information security and change control requirements
Manage relationships with internal teams and external suppliers
Communicate about environment availability, planned changes, outages, risks and dependencies
Improve environment stability, release quality, deployment automation, DevOps practices and testing effectiveness

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience managing multiple IT environments, including development, test, UAT, training, staging and production environments, in a Microsoft Azure/D365 environment
Experience coordinating technology releases, deployments, release readiness activity and change governance
Understanding of how environments, testing, release management and operational readiness work together
Experience supporting software testing and quality assurance activities, including test environment and test data preparation
Strong planning, organisation, risk management and problem-solving skills
Ability to manage dependencies and competing priorities
Experience working with third-party suppliers and building relationships with project teams, service teams, technical specialists and business stakeholders
Experience of large-scale transformation programmes, SaaS or cloud-hosted applications, DevOps tooling, automated deployment pipelines, ITIL, Agile or PRINCE2 delivery approaches
Clear communication skills, including explaining technical matters to non-technical audiences
Commitment to continuous improvement, automation where appropriate, good governance and the values of the NCIs

Benefits

Comp & perks

Inclusive workplace and belonging and inclusion strategy
Applications welcomed from people of all faiths and of no faith
Safe, inclusive workplace for people of all backgrounds and walks of life