Principal QE - Test Environment Management

Requisition ID 36234 Office Country Bulgaria Office City Sofia Division Information Technology Contract Type Fixed Term Contract Length 3 years Posting End Date 30/03/2026

Lead environment engineering at enterprise scale. Shape the platforms that power the Bank’s most critical technology change.

We’re looking for a Quality Engineer, specialising in Test Environment Management to transform how environments are designed, orchestrated, and governed across a rapidly modernising engineering landscape.

Based in Sofia, you’ll own the strategy, tooling, and operating model that ensure our teams can deliver safely, predictably, and at pace.

This is a role for a technical, forward‑looking QE leader who thrives at the intersection of engineering, DevOps, cloud platforms, and environment governance. You will define how environments are provisioned, automated, secured, and monitored, and you’ll eliminate the environment fragility that slows delivery, increases risk, or compromises quality.

What You Will Lead

• End‑to‑end ownership of the Test Environment strategy, covering environment architecture, IaC, configuration governance, environment reservation & scheduling, and cross‑product dependency mapping.
• Next‑generation environment capabilities, including multi‑region replication, synthetic data generation, ephemeral environments, automated data refresh pipelines, and integrated performance & resilience labs.
• Environment assurance, embedding quality, resilience, and regulatory alignment (NIST, DORA, ITIL) into every environment and ensuring strong observability, monitoring, and capacity insights.
• Cross‑capability orchestration, working closely with DevOps, cloud, infrastructure, data, and product engineering teams to ensure environments remain stable, scalable, and aligned to delivery needs.
• Leadership & influence, shaping environment direction across major transformation programmes (e.g. ERP migration, Fabric‑based analytics platforms) and guiding senior stakeholders through complex technical decisions.

What You Will Bring

• Deep expertise in Test Environment Management, including environment provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD‑enabled environment pipelines, and cloud‑native infrastructure patterns.
• Strong engineering foundation across IaC, container orchestration, cloud platforms (Azure ideally), networking, and environment automation.
• Experience leading QE or platform engineering functions, with a clear view of how modern quality engineering, observability, synthetic data, and automation converge within environment strategy.
• Ability to translate complex technical problems into clear strategy, risk positions, and investment recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Leadership qualities that inspire ; able to coach engineers, influence architecture decisions, negotiate with vendors, and unlock teams across geographies.

Why This Role Matters

Every major programme depends on stable, predictable, high‑fidelity environments. You will be the architect behind those foundations, ensuring engineering squads can deliver, test, learn, and deploy with confidence. Your impact will be visible across the bank: fewer defects, safer releases, higher velocity, and resilient platforms.

If you are motivated by building intelligent, automated, high‑scale environments, and you want to shape how a global organisation delivers technology, then this is a rare opportunity to lead that transformation from Sofia.

What is it like to work at the EBRD? / About EBRD

Our agile and innovative approach is what makes life at the EBRD a unique experience! You will be part of a pioneering and diverse international organisation, and use your talents to make a real difference to people's lives and help shape the future of the regions we invest in.

At EBRD, our Values – Inclusiveness, Innovation, Trust, and Responsibility – are at the heart of how we work. We bring these to life through our Workplace Behaviours: listening well and speaking up, collaborating smartly, acting decisively with full commitment, and simplifying to amplify our impact. These principles shape our culture and define our success. We seek individuals who not only share these values but are also committed to embedding them in their daily work, fostering a positive and high-performing environment.

The EBRD environment provides you with:

• Varied, stimulating and engaging work that gives you an opportunity to interact with a wide range of experts in the financial, political, public and private sectors across the regions we invest in.
• A working culture that embraces inclusion and celebrates diversity. Our workforce reflects a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, bringing fresh ideas, energy, and innovation and enhancing our ability to serve our clients, shareholders, and counterparties effectively.
• We offer hybrid and flexible working arrangements and believe we operate at our best when collaborating 3 days a week in person (minimum)
• An environment that places sustainability, equality and digital transformation at the heart of what we do.
• A workplace that prioritises employee wellbeing and provides a comprehensive suite of competitive benefits.

Diversity is one of the Bank’s core values which are at the heart of everything it does. As such, the EBRD seeks to ensure that everyone is treated with respect and given equal opportunities and works in an inclusive environment. The EBRD encourages all qualified candidates who are nationals of the EBRD member countries to apply regardless of their racial, ethnic, religious and cultural background, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socio-economic background or disability.

Please note, that due to the high volume of applications received, we regret to inform you that we are unable to provide detailed feedback to candidates who have not been shortlisted (for further consideration).