Azure Cloud Lead: Scalable Infra & Strategy (Hybrid)

Fruition Group Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus

Pension contribution

Flexible and hybrid working options

Career progression opportunities

Job summary

Fruition Group Ireland is seeking a senior cloud engineering leader to mentor a team and drive scalable infrastructure. You will define cloud strategies aligning with business goals, ensuring secure, highly available environments while closely collaborating with other teams and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and strong governance, with a hybrid work setup in a large enterprise context.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles.
• Leadership or technical lead experience.
• Experience with Azure (preferred) and AWS.
• IaC with Terraform.
• CI/CD pipelines in modern DevOps.
• Cloud architecture, operations, service management.
• Experience with SLA/SLO-driven delivery.
• DevOps tooling & automation frameworks.
• Monitoring/logging/optimisation tools.
• Cloud cost management strategies.
• Cloud security principles & governance.
• Enterprise-scale environments.
• Azure DevOps or similar platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of cloud engineers delivering scalable infrastructure solutions.
• Define and execute cloud strategies aligned with business and tech objectives.
• Ensure high availability, performance, and security across cloud environments.
• Collaborate with internal teams to integrate cloud services with existing systems and platforms.
• Serve as a key liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders; communicate priorities and timelines.
• Support incident management, including on-call participation.
• Drive optimisation to improve performance and cost efficiency.
• Oversee build, release, and configuration management of production environments.
• Manage third-party vendors and cloud service providers.
• Promote continuous improvement across cloud operations and delivery practices.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

Incident management

Communication with stakeholders

CI/CD

Monitoring & logging

Cost optimisation

Cloud security

Enterprise-scale design

Azure/AWS

Azure DevOps

Education

Third-level degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

Terraform

Job description

Fruition Group Ireland is seeking a senior cloud engineering leader to mentor a team and drive scalable infrastructure. You will define cloud strategies aligning with business goals, ensuring secure, highly available environments while closely collaborating with other teams and stakeholders.

The role emphasizes IaC with Terraform, CI/CD pipelines, and strong governance, with a hybrid work setup in a large enterprise context.