Cloud Operations Lead — Azure, IaC & Fintech Scale

Fruition Group Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working options

Career progression

Performance-related bonus

Job summary

Our client, a leading Fintech organisation in Ireland, seeks an experienced Cloud Operations Technical Lead to drive cloud strategy and operational excellence across the technology function.

You will lead a team of cloud engineers, define cloud strategies with business outcomes, ensure high availability, security and performance, and collaborate with stakeholders on priorities and delivery timelines. Hybrid and flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in cloud engineering or infrastructure roles
• Experience in leadership or technical lead capacity
• Hands-on with Azure (preferred) and AWS
• Infrastructure-as-code experience (Terraform)
• CI/CD in modern DevOps environments
• Strong cloud architecture and service management knowledge
• Experience with SLA/SLO-driven environments
• Familiar with monitoring/logging and cloud cost management
• Exposure to DevOps tooling and automation frameworks
• Knowledge of cloud security principles and governance

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud leadership

Cloud engineering

DevOps practices

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring & logging

Cost optimization

Security governance

Enterprise-scale environments

Azure/AWS

Azure DevOps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Terraform

Azure

AWS

Azure DevOps

Job description

Our client, a leading Fintech organisation in Ireland, seeks an experienced Cloud Operations Technical Lead to drive cloud strategy and operational excellence across the technology function.

You will lead a team of cloud engineers, define cloud strategies with business outcomes, ensure high availability, security and performance, and collaborate with stakeholders on priorities and delivery timelines. Hybrid and flexible working options are available.