Job Description

Experience Required: 15+ Years

Role Overview

The Test Environment Manager (TEM) is a senior, engineering-focused role responsible for transforming and managing the entire non-production environment landscape. This role ensures that test environments are reliable, scalable, automated, observable, and aligned with modern SDLC and DevOps practices. The TEM drives technical excellence, SRE-inspired culture, and continuous improvement across development, QA, and operations teams.

Key Operational ResponsibilitiesEnvironment Automation & Lifecycle Management

Design and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to fully automate provisioning, configuration, and teardown of test environments. Integrate environment automation seamlessly into CI/CD pipelines to enable on-demand, self-service environment delivery.

Reliability & Observability

Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and key Service Level Indicators (SLIs), such as environment availability, provisioning time, and stability metrics. Monitor environment health using observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, etc.) and proactively identify and resolve performance issues or bottlenecks.

Incident & Problem Management

Lead incident response for environment-related issues, driving quick resolution and facilitating blameless post-mortems. Implement permanent fixes based on root cause analysis and reduce repeat incidents.

Automation & Toil Reduction

Identify repetitive, manual environment tasks and eliminate them through automation, improving engineering efficiency and reducing operational burden.

Strategic & Cultural ResponsibilitiesContinuous Improvement

Analyze environment performance data, incident trends, and post-mortem outcomes to drive ongoing enhancements and innovation.

Reliability Management

Apply an "error budget" framework to balance velocity and reliability across teams. Shift priorities between stability improvements and feature delivery based on reliability KPIs.

Culture & Collaboration

Promote a culture of shared ownership, blameless problem-solving, and strong cross-team collaboration among development, QA, DevOps, and SRE teams.

Capacity Planning & Scalability

Forecast environment capacity requirements based on usage trends, test cycles, and upcoming projects. Ensure infrastructure elasticity and scalability to meet future demands.

Test Data Management Integration

Partner with Test Data Management teams to ensure test data is consistent, compliant, refreshed automatically, and aligned with environment provisioning needs.

Technical Skills & Experience

Monitoring & Observability:

Expertise with Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, ELK/EFK, or similar platforms.

CI/CD & Automation Tools:

Strong experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible, etc.).

Cloud & Container Platforms:

Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred), Kubernetes, Docker, and serverless technologies.

Scripting & Programming:

Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar scripting languages for automation and environment tooling.

Systems & Networking:

Strong knowledge of Linux systems, networking concepts, DNS, load balancing, and database operations.

Soft Skills & Leadership Qualities

Leadership & Influence:

Ability to drive SRE and environment best practices across multiple teams and technical domains.

Analytical Problem-Solving:

Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and decision-making skills under time-sensitive conditions.

Communication Excellence:

Clear and effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Adaptability & Proactiveness:

Ability to stay ahead of evolving technologies, tools, and environment architectures.

Summary

This role is ideal for a seasoned engineering leader who brings strong technical depth, SRE mindset, automation-first thinking, and the ability to shape and modernize complex test environment landscapes.

Job Type: Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months

Pay: 85,000.00-90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

Sabbatical Sick pay
Work Location: Hybrid remote in London EC1A