Environment Manager - Non-Production Environments

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client provider of digital technology and transformation, information technology and services

Position: Environment Manager Non-Production Environments

Location: Atlanta, GA 30346

Duration: 6 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Onsite

Job Description

Role Overview

• The Environment Manager owns the planning, scheduling, lifecycle, and cost optimization of all non-production environments (Dev, QA, UAT, Performance).
• This role is the key enabler for project/product delivery and test teams, ensuring environments are stable, available, and cost-effective.
• The Environment Manager works closely with technical towers (DBAs, Infra, Security, Network, Application) and DevOps teams to ensure CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and environment operations run smoothly.
• They are accountable for managing environment sharing, conflict resolution, and risk escalation, while also optimizing cloud and infrastructure costs.

Key Responsibilities

Environment Planning & Scheduling

• Own the NPE calendar (test cycles, releases, refreshes, maintenance).
• Partner with project/product delivery teams to allocate and prioritize environments.
• Manage environment sharing and contention across multiple teams.
• Highlight risks early (conflicts, capacity issues, performance impacts) and escalate as needed.

Technical & DevOps Coordination

• Act as the single coordination point with DBAs, Infra, Network, Security, and Application teams for environment readiness.
• Partner with DevOps teams to integrate CI/CD pipelines into environment usage and ensure test/dev deployments align with NPE governance.
• Ensure environments are provisioned, refreshed, and configured with all dependencies in place.

Operational Ownership

• Oversee environment builds, refreshes, patching, and upgrades.
• Monitor environment health, availability, and performance in partnership with SREs.
• Ensure compliance with security, data, and audit standards.

Cost & Optimization

• Accountable for cloud and environment cost optimization.
• Track actual vs. estimated usage,
• Right-size environments and reduce idle spend through automation and governance.

Collaboration & Governance

• Partner with NPE Intake Analyst to validate demand forecasting and request feasibility.
• Partner with Change Manager to ensure approved changes fit environment schedules and readiness.
• Partner with Incident & Request Manager to address systemic environment issues identified via RCAs.

Required Skills & Experience

• 6 8 years in Environment/Release/Platform Management with large-scale NPE coverage.
• Strong experience coordinating across technical teams (DBA, Infra, Network, Security).
• Proven track record 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.

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.