Product Engineering Environment Lead

The Opportunity In this role, you will take lead in transforming a complex, fragmented technical estate into an automated, high-performing environment. Operating within an enterprise-scale hybrid framework, you will…

Hybrid IT
Pay rate £600 – £650/day
Contract type Contract
Posted 21 September 2026

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The Opportunity

In this role, you will take lead in transforming a complex, fragmented technical estate into an automated, high-performing environment. Operating within an enterprise-scale hybrid framework, you will streamline dev, test, and production environments across private cloud, public cloud, network topologies, and specialized physical hardware.

Your Impact

Operating Model Transformation: Clarify responsibilities across SDLC and SRE functions to define clean ownership, clear interfaces, and improved throughput.
Estate Stabilization: Improve availability, consistency, and provision lead times-especially across environments integrated with physical hardware.
Resilience & Disaster Recovery: Mature High Availability posture, resolve critical risks, and establish tested recovery capabilities with defensible RTO/RPO metrics.
Automation & Self-Service: Drive Infrastructure/Environments as Code (IaC/EaC), automated provisioning, and observability to enable on-demand instantiation.Your Experience

Professional Background: Proven track record leading enterprise-scale environment estates, spanning hybrid cloud and physical/network infrastructure.
Automation & Tooling: Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and Environment-as-Code tools (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, and observability frameworks.
SRE, SDLC & DR Depth: Strong understanding of SRE principles (SLIs/SLOs, toil reduction), release management, and High Availability/Disaster Recovery design and testing.
Key Competencies: Financial and commercial acumen to build cost/value narratives, strong documentation skills, and structured leadership in matrixed environments.This is an urgent vacancy where the hiring manager is shortlisting for an interview immediately. Please apply with a copy of your CV or send it manisha. Devaruppala @ randstaddigital .com

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