IT Environment Manager Contract Type Permanent Working Pattern Full time - flexible working may be considered Working Hours 35 hours per week Salary £62,039.53 per annum Location Options Hybrid - home based and Birmingham Function Type Corporate Functions (HR, Finance, Project Management, IT, Risk and Audit) Are you an experienced IT professional with a passion for managing complex environments? Join our dynamic IT Operations team as an IT Environment Manager, leading the management of our advanced Microsoft Azure, Dynamics 365, Optimizely, and Microsoft 365 environments. Make a significant impact in a fast-paced, innovative setting. The role As an IT Environment Manager, you will be responsible for the comprehensive management of our Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Dynamics 365 (CE and Finance), Optimizely, and Microsoft 365 environments. Your key responsibilities will include onboarding new environment requests, managing existing environments, and ensuring that both IT and business requirements are met within the agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs). You will work closely with an offshore DevOps team, which includes a DBA, to handle the hands-on build, packaging, and deployments to these environments. You will analyse, define, and manage environments following agreed processes and governance, ranging from small CRM sandboxes to full-stack environments integrating with other components, SaaS, and third-party solutions. Supporting change and release processes for route-to-live/production environments and ensuring environments are fully documented, including maintaining relevant information in the SRA's CMDB, will be crucial aspects of your role. Additionally, you will chair the Environment Management Group (EMG), manage its activities, and maintain its Terms of Reference. You will track key attributes for each environment, such as owner, purpose, software composition, and configuration details. Defining and agreeing on principles and strategies to optimize the use of environments across the organization, decommissioning redundant environments, and right-sizing remaining environments will also be part of your responsibilities. In this role, you will also be responsible for managing the creation, build, upgrade, and support for all development and test environments. You will handle data refreshes, restores, and migrations, collate test data, and assist in the cleansing of production data when required. Additionally, you will support projects in establishing their development/test environment requirements and costs, manage, allocate, and provision development/test environments required by projects, and provide monthly balanced scorecards/reports across all environments, including usage, utilization, availability, and cost. What it is in it for you An opportunity to extend your knowledge about some of Microsoft's latest Azure, 365 and Dynamics products Work in a progressive, regulatory organisation where the focus is on quality and customer service - we help to ensure quality legal services are available to everyone across England and Wales An excellent opportunity to work across multiple, evergreen, Microsoft centric, environments Be a key leader / decision maker in the organisation Join a growing team who are passionate about using IT to deliver great solutions for all Hybrid home working / office working in newly refurbished offices at the Cube in the centre of Birmingham What we are looking for Strong experience of environment management including the provisioning of new environment requests and management of existing environments in accordance with business requirements Excellent analytical, problem solving and communication (verbal and written) skills. Proven ability and track record managing Microsoft centric software environments. Strong experience in Azure platform Services, understanding of their capabilities and limitations and being able to deliver solutions leveraging various platform services Excellent team working. Strong people and stakeholder management skills Competent in the design and configuration of relevant Azure monitoring tools such as the Azure portal and Log Analytics Useful and additional information There is a full role profile attached to the bottom of this advert on our website. If you have any questions that aren't in this advert or on our website, please contact us via: recruitmentsra.org.uk This is a hybrid role and will be based in our Birmingham or London office 1 to 2 days a week, and from home the rest of the week. To apply Please click 'apply' to complete the online application form and upload a CV and cover letter, addressing how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and the attached role profile. To find out more about the recruitment and selection process and how to make the most of your application, please visit our jobs pages. Closing date for applications is 10 March at 09:00. The SRA is the independent regulator of solicitors and law firms in England and Wales, protecting consumers and supporting the rule of law and the administration of justice. We do this by overseeing all education and training requirements necessary to practise as a solicitor, licensing individuals and firms to practise, setting the standards of the profession and regulating and enforcing compliance against these standards. We offer an inclusive, supportive and friendly working environment and the chance to develop your career within a professional organisation. We are committed to the health and wellbeing of staff, helping everyone to strike a good balance between personal and professional life. Additionally, we provide a generous flexible benefits package, including gym membership with a tax only cost, an excellent defined contribution pension scheme and an additional 3% of annual basic salary upon successful completion of probation. Attached Role Profile Role Profile_IT Environment Manager 2023.pdf - 134KB Opens in a new window Vacancy closing date: 10/03/2025, 09:00 The Solicitors Regulation Authority is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do. We are actively committed to promoting and participating in good practice in the way that we attract, recruit and retain staff. Everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work because we appreciate the value that a truly diverse workforce brings to an organisation. We celebrate difference, recognising the benefits this brings to our inclusive culture, including age, disability, gender identity and expression, religion, race, sex, sexual orientation and socio economic background.