Engineering Environments Lead

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Adecco UK

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Job details

Contract role, inside IR35
The ad says the role sits inside IR35, so tax and National Insurance are deducted as for an employee, usually through an umbrella company.

Requirements

Work on-site in London
No relocation package mentioned.
Have senior-level experience
Lead-level role.

Skills

Nice to have

The role

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.

If the role aligns with your experience and interest, please apply with your updated CV

About Adecco UK

Adecco is a workforce solutions and recruitment company that describes itself as the world's number one workforce solutions business. It places over 700,000 individuals in roles every day, draws on more than 60 years of recruitment experience, and employs 38,000 people worldwide.

Its services include permanent, temporary, managed and outsourced recruitment, with the resources to manage workforces ranging from 50 to 20,000+ workers for organisations of all sizes, across the public and private sectors.