This Project drives the Royal Navy’s capability by delivering digital solutions that increase operational efficiency, effectiveness, and availability. Operating across Official and Secret domains, from shore to sea.
Data & Navy Applications (DNA) provides end-to-end support for bespoke and procured applications.
Environments Manager
We are seeking an experienced Environments Manager to oversee, govern, and optimize our end-to-end software environments (Development, Testing, UAT, Staging and Production). In this role, you will act as the central point of contact for all environment-related initiatives, ensuring our engineering teams have reliable, secure, and cost-effective environments to build and deploy exceptional software.
The position requires a platform and technology agnostic approach, encompassing governance and support across all DNA development environments; including D2S, DNH, AHE(N), and Power Platform, as well as any future platforms established within the organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Current State Assessment - Create a complete inventory of environments, owners, administrators, support arrangements and lifecycle status.
- Define clear ownership, approval routes, accountability and decision-making processes for environment management.
- Review privileged access, implement role-based permissions and ensure compliance with security and audit requirements.
- Establish ownership of environment costs, funding approval processes and ongoing financial reporting.
- Introduce standard processes for environment creation, onboarding, change, support, review and decommissioning.
- Develop dashboards, KPIs and risk reporting to provide visibility of environment health, compliance and costs.
- Partner with other teams to ensure environments meet project requirements and are delivered on time without bottlenecking the CI/CD pipeline.
- Act as an escalation point for environment-related outages or performance degradation, coordinating rapid resolution and conducting root-cause analysis.
- Champion automation (e.g. Infrastructure as Code) and self-service capabilities to streamline environment provisioning and reduce manual toil.
- Work closely with cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and third-party tooling vendors to optimise performance and licensing.
Must haves:
- Proven track record in IT Environment Management, Release Management, or IT Operations within a software house, SaaS provider, or technology-driven organization.
- Strong understanding of cloud-native infrastructure (AWS, Azure, or GCP), containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines.
- Experience implementing ITIL or similar frameworks, managing RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), and enforcing compliance in software environments.
- Solid understanding of cloud cost management, forecasting, and budget optimization for infrastructure.
- Ability to analyze complex data to produce actionable Management Information and executive dashboards.
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills, capable of negotiating and communicating clearly with both highly technical engineers and senior business leaders.
Nice to haves:
- Experience in MOD or defence
Start date: ASAP
IR35: Outside IR35
Location: Portsmouth
Contract length: Until Mar 2027 (with possible extension)
Minimum security level: SC
Nationality specification : Sole British Citizen (due to Client security requirement)
Number of days on site: 5 per fortnightly sprint
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Environments Manager in Portsmouth employer: Digi2al Limited
At DIGI2AL, we pride ourselves on being an employee-owned consultancy that champions innovation and collaboration in the defence sector. Our London-based team enjoys a vibrant work culture that prioritises flexibility, professional development, and meaningful contributions to diverse projects. With generous benefits including up to 30 days of holiday, paid charity days, and a commitment to employee ownership, we empower our engineers to thrive while making a real impact in the digital services landscape.
