Environment Manager

Creospan is a subsidiary of Creospan Inc., our parent company, headquartered in Chicago, IL. From our humble beginnings in 1999 – with just a handful of employees and a mission to help our clients leverage emerging web technologies to build next-generation products – technology has changed dramatically, yet our curiosity has remained constant. Our expertise spans across Telecom, Technology, Manufacturing, Ecommerce, Insurance, Banking, Transportation, and Healthcare domains.

To find out more about us, visit our website: www.creospan.com

We are looking for an experienced Environment Manager to lead the management, stability, availability and lifecycle of distributed technology environments supporting a large-scale Java technology stack across both cloud and non-cloud/on-premises platforms.

The role will work closely with application development, architecture, infrastructure, DevOps, security, release management and business teams to ensure environments are reliable, secure, appropriately configured and available for development, testing and production operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end management of distributed application environments across cloud and on-premises infrastructure.
• Manage environments supporting Java/J2EE applications, middleware, APIs and associated technology components.
• Lead environment provisioning, configuration, deployment, upgrades, patching and decommissioning.
• Partner with Azure Cloud teams to manage and optimize cloud-based environments.
• Ensure environment availability, stability, performance and capacity.
• Coordinate environment readiness for application releases, testing and production deployments.
• Manage dependencies across application, database, network, middleware, security and infrastructure teams.
• Establish and maintain environment management standards, processes and governance.
• Drive automation of environment provisioning, configuration and deployment using DevOps/CI-CD practices.
• Lead incident, problem and service-management activities related to environment issues.
• Identify recurring environment problems and drive permanent corrective actions.
• Maintain environment inventories, configuration documentation and technology lifecycle plans.
• Support cloud migration and modernization initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with security, risk, audit and regulatory requirements.
• Define and monitor KPIs/SLA metrics for environment availability, stability and delivery.
• Manage technology vendors and third-party infrastructure partners where required.
• Lead distributed/global teams and coordinate with senior technology stakeholders.

Technical Skills

Required:

• Strong experience managing Java-based distributed technology environments
• Experience across cloud and on-premises environments
• Environment/release/deployment management from scratch and setting up the environment
• Application servers and middleware
• Linux/Unix and Windows environments
• Databases and enterprise integrations
• CI/CD and DevOps concepts
• Cloud migration and modernization
• Incident, problem and change management
• Strong understanding of enterprise infrastructure architecture

Preferred:

• Microsoft Azure experience
• Azure compute, networking, storage and monitoring
• Kubernetes/container platforms
• Azure DevOps
• Infrastructure as Code
• Terraform/Ansible
• Jenkins/GitLab/GitHub Actions
• Observability and monitoring platforms
• Leadership & Stakeholder Management
• Ability to lead distributed/global technology teams
• Strong communication with senior engineering and business leadership
• Experience managing multiple technology stakeholders and competing priorities
• Strong vendor and third-party management skills
• Ability to drive transformation rather than simply operate existing environments
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making capability

Experience

• 10-12 years of experience in technology/infrastructure/application operations
• Significant experience in enterprise Java environments
• Experience managing large, complex and geographically distributed technology estates
• Proven experience leading technology teams and large-scale environment initiatives
• Experience in financial services/banking or other highly regulated environments would be an advantage.