Job Title: Environment Manager – Non-Production Environments

Experience Range: 10-15 years
Hiring Location: Hyderabad / Bangalore / Chennai / Kochi / Trivandrum / Pune / Noida

Must Have Skills

7+ relevant experience in Environment / Release / Platform Management with large-scale coverage.

Strong coordination experience across DBA, Infra, Network, Security, and Application teams.

Proven track record of 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 managing shared environments and resolving contention.

Strong understanding of cloud cost optimization / FinOps (AWS Cost Explorer, Kubecost, CloudHealth).

Excellent stakeholder management, risk escalation, and communication skills.

Good to Have Skills

Exposure to SRE practices for monitoring environment health and availability.

Familiarity with security, compliance, and audit standards for non-production environments.

Knowledge of performance testing and capacity planning in NPE.

Experience in telecommunication or large-scale enterprise domains.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Planning & Scheduling

Own the calendar (test cycles, releases, refreshes, maintenance).

Partner with delivery teams to allocate and prioritize environments.

Manage environment sharing and contention across teams, escalating risks proactively.

Technical & DevOps Coordination

Coordinate with DBAs, Infra, Network, Security, and Application teams for environment readiness.

Work with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines into environment usage.

Ensure environments are provisioned, refreshed, and configured with dependencies.

Operational Ownership

Oversee environment builds, refreshes, patching, and upgrades.

Monitor environment health, availability, and performance.

Ensure compliance with security, data, and audit standards.

Cost & Optimization

Drive cloud and environment cost optimization.

Track actual vs. estimated usage and reduce idle spend.

Implement automation and governance for right-sizing environments.

Collaboration & Governance

Partner with Intake Analyst for demand forecasting and request feasibility.

Work with Change Manager to align approved changes with environment readiness.

Collaborate with Incident & Request Manager on systemic environment issues.