IT Environment and Release Manager

Legal & General is a leading UK financial services group and major global investor. We’ve been safeguarding people’s financial futures since 1836, aiming to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone and create value for our shareholders.

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 have an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Environment/Release Manager here at L&G. You will ensure stability and control of our IT non-production environments and oversee smooth release deployments with minimal business disruption. In this role, you will manage non-production environments, act as the gatekeeper for releases, and implement a robust Release Management framework. We seek a strategic thinker who can establish effective processes and controls, helping project teams minimise delays and speed up market delivery while maintaining environment integrity.

What you'll be doing:

• Overseeing and supporting application environments, ensuring integrity and managing configurations, including OS versions, patches, and software.
• Establishing and maintaining Environment Strategies, policies, processes, and IT Controls in line with ITIL best practices, supporting Release, Development, and Test Management.
• Managing environment allocation, scheduling, and shared usage, coordinating upgrades, service levels, and support requirements.
• Collaborating with Solution Architects to align environment design with strategic objectives and reduce costs.
• Planning and managing release/deployment activities, including forward planning, task/resource management, and maintaining Run Books.
• Supporting project delivery by defining requirements and providing expert guidance on environment utilisation and efficiencies.
• Defining and publishing KPIs on environment usage, planning, performance, capacity, and availability.
• Monitoring and resolving environment-related incidents, analysing trends, and contributing to continual improvement.
• Ensuring Identity and Access Management for non-production environments and oversee related policies.
• Maintaining Configuration and Version Control across all environments.

Who we're looking for:

• ITIL Foundation (Ideally V4)
• Financial Applications – Oracle, Mainframe etc a bonus
• Good understanding of Cloud (AWS or Azure)
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines and associated tools and integration
• Knowledge of Environment and Release, Configuration and Test Management principles and policies and of SDLC
• Prior experience in Release Management is a distinct advantage
• Experience/exposure to DevOps, Agile methodology and ServiceNow, JIRA
• Plutora or any other Release and Environment Management tool
• Exposure to Source/Version control tools, CI/CD pipelines

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   
• Private medical insurance (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 
• 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

Legal & General is a leading financial services group and major global investor, named Britain’s Most Admired Company in 2023, for the second year running. Rated top in our sector and top for inspirational leadership, we have a strong heritage and an exciting future.

We aim to build a better society for the long term by investing our customers’ money in things that make life better for everyone.

If you join us, you’ll be part of a welcoming 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 strive to be open, mindful and inclusive, so are always willing to discussing flexible working arrangements and reasonable accommodations for candidates with specific needs.

If you’re open to find out more, we'd love to hear from you.