Engineering Environments Lead

Engineering Environments Lead - (Platform & Environment Strategy) Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester 12 months - Inside IR35 Our client, a leading global technology company is looking for an experienced…

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Posted 21 September 2026

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Engineering Environments Lead - (Platform & Environment Strategy)

Location: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester
12 months - Inside IR35

Our client, a leading global technology company is looking for an experienced Engineering Environments to lead the transformation of a large-scale engineering environment estate.

This is a senior leadership role focused on driving improvements across environment strategy, operational stability, disaster recovery, automation, self-service capabilities and governance. You'll work closely with Product Engineering leaders to develop a scalable, resilient and modern environment model supporting development, testing and production services across a complex enterprise landscape.

Key Responsibilities

Define and deliver the engineering environments strategy.
Drive improvements in environment stability, availability and performance.
Lead disaster recovery, resilience and business continuity initiatives.
Implement automation and self-service capabilities to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort.
Establish governance, standards, ownership models and best practice across the environment estate.
Work closely with Engineering, Product, Platform and Infrastructure teams to support delivery at scale.
Champion modern engineering practices including DevOps, SRE and Environment as Code.
Identify opportunities for continuous improvement and operational excellence.Experience Required

Proven experience leading engineering or enterprise environment functions within a large, complex organisation.
Strong background in environment strategy, governance and operational management.
Experience delivering automation, Infrastructure as Code and self-service initiatives.
Good understanding of cloud platforms, platform engineering and SRE principles.
Experience driving resilience, disaster recovery and service continuity programmes.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage and influence senior leaders.
Track record of leading transformation and change across engineering teams and technology estates.Desirable Skills

Terraform, Ansible or similar automation tools.
Cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP.
CI/CD and DevOps tooling.
Observability and monitoring solutions.
Environment as Code and modern platform engineering practices.

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