IT Environment Manager

Are you passionate about building and maintaining robust IT environments that power digital transformation? Do you want to play a crucial role in aiding CCS's £30bn procurement operation? Join us in creating and handling the environments that enable our digital future., As IT Environment Manager at CCS, you'll be accountable for delivering and maintaining our non-production environments that aid critical digital service development. You'll ensure our development, testing, and staging environments enable efficient delivery across both agile and waterfall methodologies, assisting our mission to transform public sector procurement.
Directorate overview
The Digital & Data Services (DDS) directorate is driving CCS's digital transformation, supporting over £30bn of public sector procurement annually. Our Infrastructure and Operations team ensures the reliability, security, and effectiveness of our technology platforms, enabling both our internal teams and external customers to work efficiently and securely.
Team Summary
You'll join our Infrastructure and Operations team, working alongside development teams, service management and transition managers, and technical specialists. Your role will be crucial in supporting our service transition program, managing environments for all CCS digital services, and ensuring smooth delivery of new capabilities across CCS., + Design, implement and maintain development, test, and staging environments for CCS digital services
+ Manage environment capacity, performance, and availability to meet service requirements
+ Coordinate infrastructure and software upgrades across non-production environments
+ Aid both agile and waterfall delivery methodologies through effective environment management
+ Work with development teams to analyse and fulfil environment requirements
+ Implement and maintain environment access controls and security measures
+ Manage software deployment processes and tools across different environments
+ Drive automation and continuous improvement in environment management
+ Provide technical consultancy on environment configuration and deployment strategies
+ Maintain comprehensive documentation of environment configurations and procedures, Please note: Applicants can make use of artificial intelligence but the information presented at application must be factual.
A reserve list may be held for up to 6 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact recruitment@crowncommercial.gov.uk.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
+ UK nationals
+ nationals of the Republic of Ireland
+ nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
+ nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
+ individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
+ Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

+ Strong experience in overseeing complex IT environments in a large-scale organisation
+ Expertise in environment management tools and deployment automation
+ Knowledge of infrastructure technologies including cloud platforms
+ Experience with configuration management and version control systems
+ Proven aptitude to aid both agile and waterfall delivery methods, + Making Effective Decisions
+ Working Together
+ Delivering at Pace
+ Changing and Improving
+ Managing a Quality Service

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
+ Experience with deployment tools (e.g., Jenkins, Artifactory)
+ Knowledge of version control systems (e.g., Git, Subversion)
+ Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
+ Experience with infrastructure as code
+ Knowledge of containerization and orchestration tools
+ Understanding of security and access control principles

CCS is a flexible business with a smarter working model where our colleagues benefit from a mix of home and office working. Successful candidates are expected to work from one of the office locations listed. Our current office attendance approach requires a minimum of 26 days per quarter (approx 2 days per week, which may be subject to change) in CCS office locations or off site meetings with suppliers, customers, partners, networking / industry events. This is pro rata for those who work part time. Our smarter working principles mean that our people have the advantage of both office and offsite based collaboration and learning, as well as working from home. This way of working allows us to honour our commitment to being a responsible business, offer flexibility and better work life balance as well as ensuring we deliver our business with confidence and in accordance with our CCS values.

Alongside your salary of £46,293, Crown Commercial Service contributes £13,411 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
What we will offer you, here are some of the benefits you can expect:
+ Competitive salary
+ Generous pension scheme
+ A discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus
+ Working remotely in addition to working in advertised office location
+ Flexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)
+ Minimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays
Explore fully how we will reward your work.
Want to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in our candidate pack.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil ServiceD&I Strategy.