DevOps & Environment Manager

Job Role: DevOps & Environment Manager Job Location: London, UK Experience: 8+ Years Work Type: Hybrid About Company: At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,700+ and has 55 offices in 20 countries within key global markets. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Job Summary Client is seeking an experienced DevOps & Environment Manager to lead the stability, security, automation, and lifecycle management of AWS-based environments supporting mission-critical platforms. This role will own and be accountable for environment standards, AMI refresh cycles, OS and DB patching, risk remediation, and operational readiness across Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux estates. The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on technical capability, disciplined operational governance, and the leadership skills needed to move teams from reactive support to predictable, risk-led delivery. You will define environment strategy, improve automation, strengthen resilience, and ensure environments are secure, consistent, auditable, and production ready. Key Responsibilities Environment Strategy & Ownership Define and maintain the environment strategy across AWS-based platforms, including build standards, lifecycle management, and operational readiness.Establish standards and governance for environment creation, configuration, refresh, and decommissioning.Drive consistency across DEV, QA, UAT, pre-production, and production environments.Maintain clear visibility of environment health, technical debt, and operational risk. AMI, OS & Database Patching Own and manage AMI refresh cycles across the estate, ensuring security currency, compliance, and controlled rollout.Lead Windows Server and RHEL patching activities across relevant environments.Coordinate database engine patching in partnership with engineering, database, and operations teams.Maintain forward-looking patch calendars aligned to vendor releases, vulnerability management, and internal risk priorities.Ensure patching is tested, communicated, approved, evidenced, and executed with minimal service disruption. Automation & Infrastructure as Code Build and improve environment automation using Infrastructure as Code.Standardize environment provisioning through reusable Terraform and/or CloudFormation modules.Integrate post-deployment validation, smoke tests, and health checks into CI/CD pipelines.Reduce manual effort, configuration drift, and operational toil through automation-first engineering. Monitoring, Alerting & Operational Quality Build and maintain effective monitoring, alerting, and dashboards for environment health and readiness.Improve signal-to-noise ratio by ensuring alerts are actionable, owned, and aligned to SRE principles.Track environment risks, patch status, compliance gaps, and resilience indicators.Support operational readiness reviews for releases, upgrades, and major changes. Risk Remediation & Resilience Proactively identify and remediate security, patching, configuration, and platform risks.Drive resolution of vulnerabilities, compliance findings, and environment-related control gaps.Lead root-cause analysis for environment-related incidents and implement preventative automation.Improve platform resilience, recovery readiness, and repeatability across the estate. Leadership & Collaboration Manage, mentor, and guide DevOps and environment engineers.Set clear expectations, priorities, delivery plans, and accountability.Partner with Engineering, Product, Security, Infrastructure, and Operations teams on release planning, change management, and risk reduction.Act as a trusted technical leader, influencing standards and improving engineering discipline across teams. Core Accountabilities AMI refreshes are current, planned, auditable, and consistently executed.Windows, RHEL, and database patching are governed, tested, evidenced, and controlled.No production patching or major environment change occurs without validated testing, approval, and stakeholder alignment.Environment risks are visible, prioritized, tracked, and reduced over time.Environments are secure, consistent, resilient, and repeatable.Automation is used to prevent recurring manual fixes and reduce operational toil. Technology Stack Cloud: AWSInfrastructure as Code: Terraform, CloudFormationCI/CD: GitHub Actions, JenkinsContainers: Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKSMonitoring & Logging: CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Geneos, ELK / OpenSearchScripting: Python, Shell / Bash, PowerShellOperating Systems: Windows Server, Red Hat Enterprise LinuxDatabases: SQL Server, Postgres and Sybase Experience & Skills We Value Strong hands-on experience managing AWS environments at enterprise scale.Proven experience owning AMI lifecycle management, OS patching, and controlled environment refreshes.Strong understanding of Windows Server and RHEL administration in regulated or enterprise environments.Experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated validation.Practical experience with monitoring, alerting, logging, and operational dashboards.Strong risk management mindset, with experience in vulnerability remediation and audit evidence.Ability to move teams from reactive firefighting to planned, predictable delivery.Strong stakeholder management, communication, and leadership skills.Financial services, index, data platform, or regulated industry experience is advantageous.