Cloud Architect

Test Triangle Limited; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Test Triangle Limited is seeking a skilled Cloud Architect to lead the design, deployment and security of an Azure cloud ecosystem in a hybrid Dublin setting. The role focuses on aligning cloud architecture with business goals, developing secure architectures, and coordinating with external ICT providers for cross-tenant integrations.

A senior expert with strong communications is essential. The selected candidate will drive security, automation, and governance in a public-sector context,

Qualifications

• Minimum seven years’ experience as an Azure Cloud Solutions Architect on Microsoft technologies.
• Proven experience with Microsoft Azure cloud solutions development and deployment.
• Experience in public sector ICT cloud systems development and deployment teams.
• Experience delivering Cloud Architecture services using SDLC methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Align organisation cloud strategy with business strategy.
• Create and manage cloud architecture models and components.
• Develop infrastructure, network and security designs for new and existing solutions.
• Develop code release management and process improvements; CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain and monitor performance of applications and resources.

Skills

Azure cloud architecture

Public sector ICT

SDLC methodologies

CI/CD pipelines

Office 365 / Exchange Online

Education

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Architect Expert

Microsoft Certified: Security Engineer or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

Dynamics 365

SharePoint Online

Power Platform

Azure Entra ID

Job description

• Work Experience minimum of seven (7) years’ experience as a qualified Azure Cloud Solutions Architect on Microsoft technologies, providing clear evidence of supporting similar scale Microsoft cloud ecosystems
• Industry Government & Public Sector
• City Dublin 2
• State/Province Dublin
• Country Ireland

Job Description

Office Location: Dublin 2,Ireland (Hybrid, Minimum one day per weekonsite (Thursday preferred) )

Contract Start Date: Early Jan2027

Contract: 12 Months, withfurther extensions anticipated to go upto 3 years.

Organisation Overview

The organisationsupports six independent statutory bodies that share centralised CorporateServices, including ICT support.

Its IT environment isbuilt around a Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, supporting key applicationssuch as Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online and bespoke business applications. Theenvironment leverages Microsoft 365 security services, including Defender forOffice 365, Defender for Cloud and Defender for Endpoint.

The organisation isseeking Cloud Architect to support the ongoing development, management andsecurity of its Azure environment. Responsibilities include optimising existingcloud infrastructure, implementing best-practice architecture, strengthening securitycontrols and ensuring alignment with NIS2, Irish NCSC guidance and publicsector cybersecurity requirements.

The scope covers theorganisation's Azure cloud environment, with coordination required withexternal ICT providers where cross-tenant integrations or dependencies arise.

Natureof the Services Required

The Cloud Architect will assist the Office through services not limited to;

• Responsible for aligning the organisation Cloud strategy with itsbusiness strategy.
• Creation, maintenance and management of Cloud architecture models andtheir components.
• Developing Infrastructure, network and security designs for new andexisting solutions.
• Devising code release management and process improvements
• Maintaining and creating CI/CD pipelines
• Improving performance management and monitoring of applications andresources, as needed
• Deploying guard-rails and security ring-fencing for artificialintelligence agents and /or agentic solutions, in accordance with bestpractices and Office policy.

Key Responsibilities

Minimum Requirements (Mandatory)

It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resourceproposed must have:

• at minimum of seven (7) years’ experience as a qualified Azure CloudSolutions Architect on Microsoft technologies, providing clear evidence ofsupporting similar scale Microsoft cloud ecosystems
• skillsets in Microsoft Azure cloud solutions development and deployment,with secure access over Office 365, Exchange Online, Azure Entra ID, MSDefender and integrations with PowerPlatform / Dynamics 365 applicationstack.
• Experience of working in conjunction with and/or as part of public/civilservice ICT cloud systems development and deployment teams.
• Experience of delivering Cloud Architecture services and solutions usingarchitecture/SDLC methodologies

Qualifications

• Certified Computer Science or associated technology qualification
• Microsoft Certified Professional (Expert), or more recentequivalent
• Microsoft Azure Security Architect, or more recent equivalent
• Microsoft Azure Security Engineer, or more recent equivalent
• Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, or more recentequivalent
• Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, or more recent equivalent

Language Requirements

• Fluent English language skills ( C2 Proficient )

Requirements

The followingnon-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.

• Performing Security assessments and design for Cloudnative security products
• Performing Cloud adoption assessment and wellarchitected assessment for existing environment for gap analysis
• Performing feasibility assessments with the Office anddeveloping proposals / statements of work against business requirements
• Clear in communication, customer facing roles
• Experience in managing Microsoft Technologiesimplementation/migration projects for both cloud and on-premises
• Working in multi-vendor and multi-business unitenvironments
• Experience in design, development and implementationof Client Dashboards
• Design, deploy, maintain and support of HybridInfrastructure estate across Azure Cloud, Office 365 and OGCIO-BTS federatedservices.
• Ensure ICT ecosystem and environment aligned withOMB-ICT and OGCIO-BTS security strategies and policies.
• Clear in communication, customer facing roles.
• Experience in managing Microsoft Azure ecosystemtechnologies and co-ordination in cloud-native implementation / migrationprojects.
• Working in multi-vendor and cross-business unitenvironments.

The followingExperience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

• Microsoft Azure - Successfully completed Azure examsand certifications around Azure Infrastructure services, Azure Data Service andAzure Security and compliance
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Architect
• Microsoft Certified: Designing and ImplementingMicrosoft DevOps Solutions

Experience public/civilservice environment

• Leading design workshops and ROI analysis forenterprise architecture development
• Leading and implementing end-to-end solutions forsecure applications and cloud portal platforms
• Understanding business requirements, perform gapanalysis, problem solving, requirement mapping, solution designing,implementing, and customizing the product/solutions as per businessrequirements.
• Strong knowledge of Azure and AWS Infrastructure as aservice (IaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS).
• Strong Knowledge of Microsoft security stackimplementations and design
• Experience in designing available, cost-efficient,fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems on MS Azure ecosystem
• Experience with designing public cloud landing-zonesfor public-sector specific customer bases.
• Capability to provide best practices for buildingsecure and reliable applications on the MS Azure platform.
• Identifying appropriate use of Azure and possibly AWSarchitectural best practices, especially in failover / resilience scenarios.
• Responsible for the architecture and automation of theCI/CD platform and cloud infrastructure and review of cloud efficiencies(reporting).
• Maintaining consistent DevOps approach, tools andstandards, ensuring the Office’s DevOps strategy is implemented at every stageof the end-to-end development
• Assist in building version-control systems, branchingstrategies and have implemented same across life cycle of products/solutions.
• Expert at automation for cloud infrastructure fromautomating machine images to setting up of immutable instances and promotingcode from dev to QA to Production.
• Experience with deploying and managing applicationsand infrastructure with scripting and infrastructure as a code on public cloud.
• Estimating Azure/AWS costs and identifying costcontrol mechanisms in the context of cloud-based solutions.