Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?
Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?
Join our IT Team
he IT team at Softcat plays a vital role in driving the business forward, ensuring that technology supports growth, innovation, and operational excellence.
Success. The Softcat Way.
Softcat is a £1billion+ technology solutions business and trusted partner to names like Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe. Offering a growing portfolio of services including software licensing, cyber security, and IT infrastructure, we give our technical teams the tools and support to make exciting things happen. This is where to achieve more for your career.
About the Role
As an Environment and Release Manager, you will be an integral part of the IT team, ensuring high-quality project deliveries, working on transformation programmes which form the basis of our technical strategy, in cloud and data centre environments The role will expand to oversee releases across all business system
The successful candidate will play a key role in driving consistency and quality in system deliveries, managing the end-to-end release cycle, and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure successful implementations.
As Environment & Release Manager, you'll be responsible for:
* Develop and maintain a detailed release plan, outlining key milestones, dependencies, and deliverables
* Managing the planning for and impact assessment of vendor upgrades of key business systems
* Oversee the end-to-end release lifecycle, from development and testing, to deployment and post-release support
* Serve as the primary point of contact for all release-related communications, ensuring transparency and alignment with business and technical stakeholders
We'd love you to have
* Relevant Azure certifications.
* A record of managing environments and releases, grounded in proven experience as an Application Environment Engineer or in a similar role, preferably within CRM transformation programmes or large-scale IT projects
* Strong understanding of managing release management processes, methodologies, and tools with involving multiple stakeholders
* Demonstrable experience of Application Lifecycle Management
Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
* Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
* Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
* Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
Working with us
Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
Join us
To become part of the success story, please apply now.
If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.
You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/
Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.
We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!