Job Description

Company Description
Legal & General (L&G) is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor.
We've been safeguarding people's financial futures since 1836, and strive to build a better society, while improving the lives of our customers and creating value for shareholders.
We are one of the world's largest asset managers and provide powerful asset origination capabilities. Together, these underpin our retirement and protection solutions: we are an international player in pension risk transfer, in UK and US life insurance, and in UK workplace pensions and retirement income.
Our Group Functions provide the services that all areas of the business need. This requires a talented and diverse team behind the scenes, who enable everyone at L&G to do what they do best.
Joining us means helping to improve the lives of our customers and contributing to the success of the business every day.

We're looking for a strategic and collaborative IT Environment & Release Manager to join our Group Finance IT (GFIT) team.
This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the way in ensuring stability, control, and efficiency across our non-production environments, while enabling smooth and secure releases.
What you'll be doing:

• Managing and supporting non-production environments across the application estate
• Defining and maintaining environment strategies, policies, and IT controls
• Coordinating environment usage, upgrades, and service levels
• Collaborating with architects to align environment design with strategic goals
• Planning and managing release windows, cycles, and deployment activities
• Advising project teams on environment configurations and best practices
• Publishing KPIs and management information on environment performance
• Monitoring incidents, analysing trends, and driving continuous improvement

Qualifications
Who we're looking for:

• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and associated tools and integration
• Knowledge of Environment and Release, Configuration and Test Management principles and policies
• Good understanding of IT infrastructure
• Knowledge of SDLC
• Prior experience in IT Environment and Release Management
• Experience/exposure to DevOps and Agile methodology
• Experience with release management tools such as ServiceNow, JIRA, Plutora, GitHub, GitHub Actions
• Exposure to Source/Version control tools, CI/CD pipelines, Branching concepts

Whatever your role, we reward performance and behaviour with a package that looks after all the things that are important to you. Here are some of the benefits we offer:

• The opportunity to participate in our annual, performance -related bonus plan and valuable share schemes
• Generous pension contribution
• Life assurance
• Healthcare Plan (permanent employees only)
• At least 25 days holiday, plus public holidays, 26 days after 2 years' service. There's also the option to buy and sell holiday
• Competitive family leave
• Participate in our electric car scheme, which offers employees the option to hire a brand-new electric car through tax efficient salary sacrifice (permanent employees only)
• There are the many discounts we offer - both for our own products and at a range of high street stores and online
• In 2023, some of our workspaces were redesigned. Our offices are great spaces to connect and collaborate and have your wellbeing at the heart

Additional Information
At L&G, we believe it's possible to generate positive returns today while helping to build a better future for all.
If you join us, you'll be part of a welcoming, inclusive culture, with opportunities to collaborate with people of diverse backgrounds, views, and experiences. Guided by leaders with integrity who care about your future and wellbeing. Empowered through initiatives which support people to develop their careers and excel.
We care passionately about outcomes rather than attendance and are therefore open to discussing all kinds of flexible working options including part-time, term-time and job shares. Although some roles have limited flexibility due to customer demand, we accommodate requests when we can.
It doesn't matter if you don't meet every single criterion in this advert. Instead, think about what you excel at and what else you can bring in terms of strengths, potential and connection to our purpose.