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.
•Execute DR testing, validating system recovery, integrations, and service resilience post-fail over to ensure continuity and adherence to high-availability and recovery objectives.
•Implement 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 – working shoulder to shoulder with clients and peers through good times and challenges.
•Empowering passionate technology professionals by allowing them to expand their skills and take part in inspiring projects.
•Expleo Academy - acquire and develop skills through a suite of accredited training courses.
•Competitive company benefits.
•Working as one team, where people are encouraged to think big and challenge the status quo.
•As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, commitments include: an inclusive and accessible recruitment process; 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 to stay in work.
