My reputable global financial service client is building up their cloud team in Dublin. We are hiring a senior Azure Cloud Platform professional to take regional responsibility for a regulated, enterprise-scale cloud environment supporting critical banking services across EMEA. You will own and enhance the Azure platform, support both cloud-native innovation and the migration and modernisation of legacy banking systems.
What you'll do:
- This is a hands-on engineering position with broader influence over cloud platform strategy. You will work closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, Data and Audit teams.
- Regional responsibility for the EMEA cloud platform, supporting banking operations and regulated workloads across multiple jurisdictions
- Ownership of the Azure cloud platform underpinning critical business services and customer-facing applications
- Supports both:
- Cloud-native platforms and digital innovation initiatives
- Migration and modernisation of legacy and on-premises banking systems
- Accountability for central cloud services including identity, access control, network security, shared hosting platforms, observability, and resilience
- Operating within a regulated environment aligned to regulatory requirements, operational resilience frameworks, and internal risk policies
- Working closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Data, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit functions
- Acting as a senior technical contributor with hands-on engineering responsibility while influencing broader platform strategy
What you'll bring:
- Deep hands-on Microsoft Azure experience within enterprise or regulated environments
- Strong knowledge of Azure landing zones, management groups, Azure Policy and governance frameworks
- Experience with Kubernetes, OpenShift and container platform engineering
- Strong Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Experience building automated, auditable CI/CD and deployment pipelines
- Strong knowledge of cloud security, zero-trust, identity, encryption and access controls
- Experience designing highly available, resilient and disaster-recovery-ready platforms
- Strong Azure networking experience, including VPN, ExpressRoute and hybrid cloud connectivity
- Experience integrating on-premises infrastructure with cloud platforms
- Previous experience within banking, financial services or another regulated industry
- Exposure to AWS or GCP would be advantageous.
- Right to work in Dublin
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