Release & Environments Engineer

Location: Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Department: Tech Team

Workplace: on_site

Employment Type: full

Description

Role:                                    Environments & Release Engineer

Location:                             We operate a hybrid schedule, meaning 2-3 days a week in the office based at Thorpe Park, Leeds. 

Salary:                                 £ DOE plus extensive benefits

Contract type:                    Permanent

Employment type:             Full time

Working hours:                   We work on a core hours principle. Our core hours are 09:30 - 16:00; you can work around these to suit you!

Do you want to work for the nation’s largest online pharmacy ensuring excellence for all our patients? We’re a market leader in the pharmacy world, with 25 years’ experience, helping over 1.8 million patients in England manage their NHS prescriptions from request through to delivery.  We are Great Place to Work certified as we consider colleague experience a top priority every day, and as a certified B Corp we also meet high standards of social and environmental responsibility. Our people are fundamental to our success and ensuring we achieve our vision to be a world leading, patient-centric digital healthcare provider. We are committed to continuing to develop a positive, open and honest working environment for all.

Our tech teams keep us running 24/7 to make sure all our patients get world class service. To support that, this role may include participation in an out-of-hours rota as required by the business. We operate fair scheduling process as well as additional compensation for all on call periods.

This role will see you keeping non‑production environments fast, reliable, and ready for change. The Environments & Release Engineer owns the health and consistency of lower environments, keeping them aligned with Production so teams can build, test, and release with confidence using realistic data.

The role involves spinning environments up when needed, keeping them running smoothly, and retiring them cleanly helping reduce defects and make delivery more predictable. Working closely with engineers, testers, and architects, this role takes real ownership, spots issues early, and communicates clearly when it matters.

For anyone who enjoys problem‑solving, collaboration, and making life easier for delivery teams, this is a role with real impact.

Why you’ll love working with us

We believe great people deserve great support. That’s why we offer a benefits package designed to look after your health, finances, career and life outside work.

Financial security & rewards

·        Competitive contributory pension

·        Occupational sick pay

·        Long-service awards and refer-a-friend bonuses

·        Professional registration fees covered (GPhC, NMC, CIPD and more)

·        Cycle to Work and Green Car schemes (subject to eligibility)

Family-friendly

·        Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

·        Flexible hybrid working to help balance work and home life

Health & wellbeing

·        Private healthcare insurance at discounted rates (Aviva)

·        Employee Assistance Programme and in-house mental health support

·        Access to discounted gym memberships via Blue Light Card and benefits schemes

·        Regular health and wellbeing initiatives

Career growth

·        Strong commitment to CPD, training and professional development

Time off & flexibility

·        25 days’ annual leave, increasing with service

·        Buy and sell holiday scheme

Everyday perks & exclusive discounts

·        Blue Light Card and employee discount platform

·        Exclusive discounts at The Springs, Leeds

·        25% off health & beauty purchases

·        25% off Pharmacy2U Private Online Doctor services

Culture & community

·        Regular social events throughout the year

What you’ll be doing?

·        Build and maintain robust, secure, and scalable platforms in a hybrid cloud environment using technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, and Helm.

·        Keep non‑production environments baselined and aligned with Production, including regular code and data copybacks.

·        Manage environment configuration, variables, and secrets in line with security and compliance standards.

·        Support sprint and release cycles by ensuring lower environments are up to date, available, and fit for purpose ahead of testing and release activities.

·        Monitor environment health, reliability, and performance, proactively identifying and resolving issues before they impact delivery.

·        Create, configure, and, where appropriate, decommission environments to support projects, test phases, and experiments.

·        Drive automation and tooling to reduce manual effort across Azure environments and CI/CD pipelines.

·        Partner with Development, Architecture, and Infrastructure teams to align initiatives and promote standardisation and best practice.

·        Create and maintain clear documentation, runbooks, and environment diagrams to support reliable, repeatable operations.

·        Contribute to continuous improvement of route‑to‑live processes, including feedback into release management, testing, and observability.

Who are we looking for?

·        Strong scripting capability in at least one language (e.g. Bash, Python, or PowerShell).

·        Strong troubleshooting skills with a logical, automation‑first mindset.

·        Familiarity with CI/CD tooling (ideally Azure DevOps) and modern Git‑based branching strategies.

·        Clear, concise written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to produce high‑quality documentation.

·        Ability to manage multiple environments and competing priorities in a structured and organised way.

·        High‑level understanding of Kubernetes concepts such as pods, deployments, services, and ingress.

What happens next?

Please click apply and if we think you are a good match, we will be in touch to arrange an interview.

Applicants must prove they have the right to live in the UK.

All successful applicants will be required to undergo a DBS check.

Unsolicited agency applications will be treated as a gift.

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