Company Description
Here at esure, we're no strangers to change. As one of the industry leaders in the insurance business, striving to become a world class digital insurer, we're getting ready for more. It's creating great new opportunities for innovative and talented industry professionals to join us at a pivotal point in our development.
Job Description
We have an exciting new role for an Environment and Release Manager to join our innovative technology department.
We are seeking an experienced and proactive Environment and Release Manager to join our dynamic team. This role is pivotal in managing our release processes and internal environments, ensuring seamless production releases, and coordinating deployments and configurations with our scrum teams and DevOps professionals.
What will my role entail?
- ‘Mission controller' for releases
- Co-ordinates the leads and scrum masters for software delivery, testing, DevOps, business readiness, support/service management
- Full time, across all programme streams
- Running production readiness forums (at the least S&S and claims)
- Management and co-origination of release readiness activities
- Putting in place and improving release governance
- Supporting go/no-go
- Drives improvement in the release process and related processes
- Environment management – ensuring configuration and deployments are in line with scrum team expectations
- Alongside the orchestration of environment problem management to resolution
Qualifications
You are a good fit for the role if you have the following:
- Experienced agile practitioner and strong delivery background
- Strong experience in iterative software development and release management at scale (8+ squads)
- Solid understanding of DevOps and modern testing approaches
- Experience in business readiness and business change management
- Ideally technical background, able to understand sophisticated distributed systems and the dependencies between tech and squads
- Strong experience of working with distributed teams and multiple organisations
- Able to be calm and methodical under pressure and work at a very fast pace
- Coaching mindset and able to empower when vital (push/pull)
- Comfortable working at all levels (C Suite to squads)
- Experience in a regulated environment, ideally FS
Additional Information
Why choose us?
This is your opportunity to be at the forefront of our game-changing journey and be part of something truly special! And to top it off, here are some perks to life at esure...
- A competitive salary that recognises your skills and potential
- A bonus scheme that celebrates your contribution to esure's success
- Discounts on our insurance products, for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave, plus 8 flex days to be taken as and when suits you
- Benefits just for you: our hub – My Benefits Box – is loaded with perks to choose from, so you can build a personal toolkit to support your health, wellbeing, lifestyle, and finances.
- Grow your career with us: whatever your goals, we'll support you with hands-on training, mentoring, a LinkedIn Learning licence, access to our exclusive Academies, regular career conversations, and expert partner resources from the likes of Women in Data and Women in Tech.
- Join our communities: our networks give you the chance to connect, learn and share with like-minded colleagues across the business – for work and play. So, it's no surprise our people consistently rate ‘making friends at work' one of the highest scorers in our colleague engagement survey
- More flexibility for you: we're a proud supporter of the ABI's Make Flexible Work campaign and welcome you to ask about the flexibility you need, whether it's part time, job sharing, or compressed hours. Our hybrid working approach also puts you in the driving seat of how and where you do your best work.
- Live a healthy lifestyle: we offer lots of support, so you feel like the best version of yourself – like specialist advice through our employee assistance programme, wellbeing classes, access to the My Health Advantage app, our Big Team Challenge, and learning sessions on topics like menopause.
- A helping hand to do your bit for a greener and safer world: driving good in the world couldn't be more important to us. That's why we encourage colleagues to use volunteering days to support their local communities and have lots of initiatives to help you live a greener lifestyle.
- Everyday appreciation: praise from your colleagues means the world! Our social recognition tool makes it easy to give colleagues the praise they deserve, and you could even be shortlisted for a company-wide ACE Award.
We understand some people may not apply for jobs unless they tick every box. If you are excited about joining us and think you have some of what we are looking for, even if you're not 100% sure we would love to hear from you.