Senior Cloud Azure Engineer
We are seeking a Senior Cloud Azure Engineer to join our team in Ireland. As a key member of our IT department, you will play a critical role in designing, implementing, and optimizing our cloud infrastructure.
Your primary responsibilities will include collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure our Azure environment supports our business objectives, scalability, security, and performance requirements.
You will work closely with IT, development, and operations teams to deliver projects and solutions that meet business needs, ensuring solutions and deployment for good technical health.
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of proven experience in a similar role, excellent collaboration skills, and the ability to influence and provide effective support to Senior IS and Business leaders.
Key qualifications include a strong understanding of Microsoft Azure technologies, experience with Dev Ops and Agile practices, and knowledge of Application Engineering, integration patterns, security best practices, and application development environments.
This is a permanent position with a hybrid schedule, working 2 days per week onsite in South Dublin. We offer a competitive compensation package and opportunities for growth and professional development.
* Main Responsibilities:
* Design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure aligning with technology strategy, standards, guidelines, and principles.
* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure Azure environment supports business objectives, scalability, security, and performance requirements.
* Work closely with IT, development, and operations teams to deliver projects and solutions meeting business needs.
* Ensure solutions and deployment for good technical health.
* Ownership of Continuous Delivery Pipelines.
* Oversee operation and continuous improvement of cloud-based business solutions hosted on Microsoft Azure.
* Maintain systems reliability by verifying deployments through monitoring and automated testing.
* Monitor and manage cost/utilization of the environment, ensuring cost efficiency and optimal resource utilization.
* Contribute to technical strategy for Azure application environment, aligning with business objectives and industry best practices.
* Oversight of On-Prem infrastructure managed by Central Tech Services.
Requirements:
* 5+ years of proven experience in a similar role.
* Excellent collaboration skills, essential for working within your team and engaging with peers across the IS organization.
* Ability to influence and provide effective support to Senior IS and Business leaders.
* Strong stakeholder management and communication skills for articulating complex ideas and demystifying technology and systems.
* Good knowledge of Application Engineering, complemented by experience with Dev Ops and Agile practices.
* Experience building and monitoring CI/CD pipelines and SDLC.
* Experience with integration patterns, security best practices, and application development environments.