Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.
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- UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner
- 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business
- 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK
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- Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW
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Job DescriptionRole Purpose
The Environment and Release Manager (IDC) is responsible for supporting the planning, coordination, and execution of environment management and release activities for Oracle Cloud managed services delivered by Version 1. This role operates as part of the India Delivery Centre, working closely with service delivery managers, functional and technical leads to ensure environments are stable, releases are well-governed, and changes are delivered safely and efficiently across non-production and production environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the maintenance of environment plans and calendars across development, test, UAT, pre-production, and production environments.
- Coordinate environment refreshes, cloning activities, and post-refresh validation activities in line with agreed schedules.
- Execute and support release activities for configuration, data, and integration changes
- Prepare and maintain release runbooks, checklists, and deployment documentation.
- Coordinate pre-release readiness activities, ensuring required inputs from functional, technical, testing, and reporting teams are completed.
- Participate in release and change meetings, providing updates and supporting decision-making with accurate information.
- Perform validation checks following deployments and environment refreshes, escalating issues where required.
- Maintain version control and audit-ready records of environment and release activities.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives, including process optimisation and automation of environment and release activities.
Stakeholder Interaction
The role involves regular collaboration with Environment & Release Leads, Service Delivery Managers, Oracle Cloud functional and technical consultants, test teams, and automation teams. The role may also support indirect client interactions via SDM’s particularly during release preparation and execution phases.
QualificationsSkills and Experience
- Experience supporting environment and/or release management activities within Oracle Cloud (ERP, HCM, EPM, OIC) programmes or managed services.
- Understanding of environment lifecycle management, release coordination, and change governance.
- Hands-on experience with defect and change tracking tools such as JIRA and Confluence.
- Familiarity with ITIL concepts, particularly Change and Release Management.
- Exposure to Oracle Cloud tools such as FSM, Config Snapshot, or equivalent deployment mechanisms.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple concurrent activities.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills, with experience working in distributed delivery models.
- Ability to follow defined processes while proactively identifying risks and improvement opportunities.
Desirable Experience
- Experience working in an offshore or global delivery centre model.
- Exposure to CI/CD concepts and test automation in Oracle Cloud environments.
- Experience supporting public sector or regulated industry programmes.
- ITIL Foundation certification or equivalent.
Why Version 1?
At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.
- Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits
- Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme
- Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance
- Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme
- Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies
- Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat
- Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.
- Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.
And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.
Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.
We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring.
We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact [email protected] at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.
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Skills Required
- Experience supporting environment and/or release management activities within Oracle Cloud programmes
- Understanding of environment lifecycle management, release coordination, and change governance
- Hands-on experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Familiarity with ITIL concepts
- Strong organisational skills
What We Do
Version 1 proves that IT can make a real difference to our customers' businesses. We are trusted by global brands to deliver IT services and solutions which drive customer success. Our 3000+ strong team works closely with our technology partners to provide independent advice that helps our customers navigate the rapidly changing world of IT. Our greatest strength is balance in our efforts to achieve Customer Success, Empowered People and a Strong Organisation, underpinned by the commitment to our values. We believe this is what makes Version 1 different and more importantly, our customers agree.
