About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements
- Proven Software Configuration Management (SCM) and Release Management experience
- Strong knowledge of source code management and branching strategies
- Experience managing releases within complex enterprise environments
- Knowledge of CI/CD principles and automated deployment practices
- Experience within regulated environments, preferably Banking or Financial Services
- Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional coordination skills
- Experience with change management and release governance
- Strong documentation, planning and organisational skills
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent releases and delivery timelines
- Beneficial experience with Git, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket or equivalent version control tools
- Beneficial experience with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI/CD, Bamboo or similar CI/CD platforms
- Beneficial experience with ServiceNow Change Management
- Beneficial experience with Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
- Beneficial experience with Infrastructure as Code tools, including Terraform, Ansible or ARM Templates
- Beneficial experience with PowerShell, Bash, Python or similar scripting technologies
- Beneficial knowledge of DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices
- Beneficial experience in Banking and Financial Services, Investment Banking, Custody Banking or Financial Market Infrastructure
- Beneficial experience in regulatory and compliance-driven technology environments
Responsibilities
- Manage source code repositories, version control practices, branching strategies and configuration baselines
- Maintain software configuration records and code traceability across environments
- Govern repository management using enterprise version control platforms
- Support configuration audits and adherence to established standards
- Plan, coordinate, schedule and execute application and infrastructure releases across Development, QA, UAT, Pre-Production and Production
- Facilitate release planning meetings and deployment readiness reviews
- Maintain release calendars and communicate schedules to relevant stakeholders
- Ensure releases follow change management and governance processes
- Manage and optimise build processes to improve reliability, consistency and deployment efficiency
- Support automated deployments across cloud and on-premises platforms
- Coordinate implementation, rollback and recovery plans for production releases
- Maintain accurate deployment documentation and runbooks
- Support the implementation and enhancement of CI/CD pipelines
- Identify opportunities to automate manual release and deployment activities
- Work with engineering teams to improve release frequency, quality and deployment success rates
- Support the adoption of DevOps best practices
- Ensure compliance with release governance, audit, security and regulatory requirements relevant to Financial Services
- Conduct release risk assessments and mitigate deployment risks
- Support internal and external audits relating to configuration and release management controls
- Ensure releases are appropriately documented, approved and tracked
- Monitor application and infrastructure performance following production deployments
- Investigate and resolve release-related incidents and deployment failures
- Coordinate post-implementation reviews and lessons-learned activities
- Drive continuous improvement to enhance release stability and operational resilience
Technologies
- ARM
- AWS
- Ansible
- Azure
- Bamboo
- Bash
- BitBucket
- CI/CD
- Cloud
- DevOps
- Git
- GitHub
- GitLab
- Support
- Jenkins
- PowerShell
- Python
- Security
- ServiceNow
- Terraform
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We are recruiting a Software Configuration & Release Management Engineer to support critical applications and infrastructure services across a Financial Services technology landscape. The role works across Development, QA, Infrastructure, Cloud Engineering, Security and Operations teams in a regulated banking environment, supporting controlled releases, configuration management, deployment activity and CI/CD improvements. The position is based in Manchester on a hybrid arrangement, with 80% office and 20% home working. It is a six-month contract at £300 per day, inside IR35. We act as an employment agency for permanent recruitment and an employment business supplying temporary workers. By applying, candidates accept the applicable terms, privacy policy and disclaimers.
last updated 45 week of 2026