Environment & Release Manager

10 - 15 Years
3 Openings
Bangalore, Hyderabad, Kochi, Noida, Pune, Trivandrum

Role Overview

The Environment Manager is responsible for the planning, scheduling, lifecycle management, and cost optimization of all non-production environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Performance).

This role ensures that environments are stable, available, and cost-effective, enabling smooth delivery for project/product and test teams. The Environment Manager works closely with DBAs, Infra, Security, Network, Application, and DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment operations run efficiently.

They are also accountable for environment sharing, conflict resolution, risk escalation, and cloud/infrastructure cost optimization.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Planning & Scheduling

• Own the NPE calendar (test cycles, releases, refreshes, maintenance).
• Partner with delivery teams to allocate and prioritize environments.
• Manage environment sharing and contention across teams.
• Proactively highlight and escalate risks (conflicts, capacity, performance).

Technical & DevOps Coordination

• Serve as the single coordination point across DBAs, Infra, Network, Security, and Application teams for environment readiness.
• Work with DevOps to integrate CI/CD pipelines and align deployments with governance.
• Ensure environments are provisioned, refreshed, and configured with dependencies.

Operational Ownership

• Oversee environment builds, refreshes, patching, and upgrades.
• Monitor health, availability, and performance (with SRE teams).
• Ensure compliance with security, data, and audit standards.

Cost & Optimization

• Drive cloud/environment cost optimization.
• Track actual vs. estimated usage and enforce right-sizing.
• Reduce idle spend through automation and governance.

Collaboration & Governance

• Partner with the NPE Intake Analyst for demand forecasting and feasibility.
• Collaborate with the Change Manager to align changes with schedules and readiness.
• Work with the Incident & Request Manager on systemic issues and RCA follow-ups.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6–8 years in Environment/Release/Platform Management with large-scale NPE coverage.
• Strong coordination experience across DBA, Infra, Network, Security teams.
• Proven track record working with DevOps teams on CI/CD pipeline integration and automation.
• Deep knowledge of AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and environment orchestration.
• Hands-on experience with shared environment management and conflict resolution.
• Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization/FinOps (AWS Cost Explorer, Kubecost, CloudHealth).
• Excellent stakeholder management, risk escalation, and communication skills.

Release Management,Platform Management,Cost Optimization, Environment Planning