Cloud Infrastructure Lead - Contract

Morgan McKinley; Cork; Sur place; EUR 120 000 - 150 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Morgan McKinley is seeking an experienced Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure Lead in Cork, Ireland. You will guide an engineering and architecture team to modernise and scale multi-cloud environments, bridging delivery programmes, security, and IT operations across complex digital transformation initiatives.

You will drive end-to-end infrastructure roadmaps, champion engineering best practices, and ensure delivery aligns with regulatory and operational criteria while managing external partners and

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Cloud Platform Engineering, Architecture, or Enterprise Infrastructure Delivery.
• 3+ years in formal technical leadership or people management.
• Extensive Azure expertise; familiarity with OCI or AWS is advantageous.
• In-depth understanding of IaC (Terraform) and mature CI/CD practices.
• Strong cloud network, IAM, landing zones, and monitoring knowledge.
• Proven ability to communicate complex concepts to executives and manage parallel workstreams.

Responsabilités

• Leadership & Team Management: Direct, mentor, and grow cloud architects, platform engineers, and DevOps specialists.
• Programme & Portfolio Delivery: Own end-to-end delivery of infrastructure initiatives across streams.
• Planning & Governance: Set milestones, resources, capacity, and mitigate risks.
• Engineering Standards & Automation: Promote modern IaC, pipelines, and cloud foundation patterns.
• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate with EA, Cyber Defense, Support Ops, and execs.
• Vendor & Partner Management: Lead external partners to meet SLAs and timelines.

Connaissances

Cloud leadership

Platform engineering

DevOps

Multi-cloud

Stakeholder management

Formation

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Outils

Terraform

Azure

CI/CD

Description du poste

Position Overview

We are partnering with a market-leading enterprise organisation to appoint an experienced Cloud Platforms & Infrastructure Lead. In this pivotal role, you will guide a high-performing engineering and architecture team tasked with modernising and scaling mission-critical multi-cloud environments.

Acting as the strategic bridge between delivery programmes, enterprise security, and IT operations, you will oversee end-to-end infrastructure roadmaps, champion engineering best practices, and ensure seamless delivery across complex digital transformation initiatives.

Core Responsibilities

• Leadership & Team Management: Direct, mentor, and build capacity across a multidisciplinary group of cloud systems architects, platform engineers, and DevOps specialists.

• Programme & Portfolio Delivery: Own the end-to-end delivery lifecycle of infrastructure initiatives across multiple concurrent business streams, from design through deployment and operational handover.

• Planning & Governance: Establish project milestones, resource models, and capacity forecasts while proactively identifying and mitigating technical risks and project dependencies.

• Engineering Standards & Automation: Advocate for modern engineering principles, standardising reusable Infrastructure as Code (IaC) frameworks, automated pipelines, and cloud foundation patterns.

• Cross-Functional Alignment: Collaborate closely with Enterprise Architecture, Cyber Defense, Support Operations, and executive stakeholders to ensure solutions satisfy regulatory, security, and operational criteria.

• Vendor & Partner Management: Direct external engineering partners, system integrators, and technical contractors to deliver against committed service levels and delivery timelines.

Key Requirements & Experience

• 8+ years of progressive experience within Cloud Platform Engineering, Systems Architecture, or Enterprise Infrastructure Delivery.

• 3+ years in a formal technical leadership or people management capacity, guiding engineering teams through complex delivery cycles.

• Deep Cloud Expertise: Extensive background architecting and operating enterprise-scale environments in Microsoft Azure; exposure to secondary enterprise cloud ecosystems (such as OCI or AWS) is highly advantageous.

• Automation & Modern Delivery: Hands-on exposure to Infrastructure as Code tooling (e.g., Terraform) alongside mature CI/CD implementation (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, or similar).

• Architecture & Governance Acumen: Solid foundation in cloud network topology, hybrid connectivity, Identity & Access Management (IAM), landing zones, and continuous monitoring.

• Stakeholder & Delivery Management: Demonstrated ability to translate intricate technical concepts for executive leadership, combined with a track record of running parallel workstreams under structured delivery governance.