Environment Manager

The Senior Environment Manager is responsible for planning, coordinating, maintaining, and governing all non-production and production environments across projects. The role ensures environment availability, stability, configuration consistency, release readiness, and effective coordination between development, testing, infrastructure, and business teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Development, SIT, UAT, Performance, Pre-Production, and Production environments.
• Maintain environment schedules and availability calendars.
• Coordinate environment setup, refresh, cloning, and decommissioning activities.
• Ensure environments are available and stable for project and testing activities.

Release & Deployment Coordination

• Work closely with Release Managers and DevOps teams for deployment planning.
• Coordinate release windows and environment freeze periods.
• Ensure deployment readiness and rollback plans are in place.

Configuration Management

• Maintain environment configurations and documentation.
• Track configuration changes and dependencies.
• Manage application versions and infrastructure alignment.
• Coordinate test data refresh and masking activities.
• Resolve environment-related issues impacting testing.
• Support SIT, UAT, Regression, and Performance testing activities.
• Monitor environment utilization and optimize resource allocation.

Stakeholder Coordination

• Act as primary point of contact for environment-related requests.
• Coordinate with:
  • Project Managers
  • Business Teams
  • QA Teams
  • DevOps Teams
  • Infrastructure Teams
  • Database Administrators
  • Vendors and Third Parties
• Investigate and resolve environment outages.
• Identify environment risks and mitigation strategies.
• Participate in root cause analysis discussions.
• Ensure timely resolution of environment-related incidents.

Governance & Reporting

• Develop environment management processes and standards.
• Track KPIs and environment utilization metrics.
• Provide regular status reports to leadership.
• Maintain audit and compliance documentation.

Required Skills

Technical Skills

• Release Management

Management Skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• PMP, Agile, or Scrum certification is an advantage.
• Environment Readiness for Testing and Releases
• Successful Release Coordination
• Environment Inventory and Documentation
• Capacity and Utilization Reports
• Risk and Issue Logs
• Compliance and Audit Readiness

Experience Requirements

Senior Environment Manager (8-15 Years)

• Experience managing multiple enterprise environments.
• Strong knowledge of Release Management and DevOps practices.
• Experience coordinating large-scale SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, or custom application landscapes.
• Proven leadership in managing cross-functional teams and stakeholders.

Environment Coordinator (5-8 Years)

• Experience scheduling and supporting test environments.
• Strong coordination and communication skills.
• Experience with ServiceNow, Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.
• Understanding of deployment and testing processes

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