Dublin 2, Ireland | Posted on 11/06/2026
- Work Experience 7+ years as Cloud / Azure Admin
- 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 Services Administrator to support the ongoing development,management and security of its Azure environment. Responsibilities includeoptimising existing cloud infrastructure, implementing best-practicearchitecture, strengthening security controls and ensuring alignment with NIS2,Irish NCSC guidance and public sector cybersecurity requirements.
The scope covers theorganisation's Azure cloud environment, with coordination required withexternal ICT providers where cross-tenant integrations or dependencies arise.
Nature of Services Required
The Office seeks experienced Cloud ServicesAdministrator resources, with previous public/civil service experience andexperience in engaging with OGCIO support interaction / integrations.
The Cloud Services Administrator will assist theOffice through services not limited to:
- Implementing, maintaining, supporting, developing and in some cases,designing environments which involve Azure cloud-based service components,including public, private government-cloud and hybrid.
- Providing experienced skillsets in Azure cloud services deployment,security, encryption, identity & authentication, traffic analysis andrelated techniques.
- Working with Azure Entra ID / Active Directory integration and Azure SQLServer, or equivalent.
- Maintaining integrity of high availability network infrastructures andinteroperability with cloud platforms so performance is consistent for allusers.
- Confidently communicating with stakeholder teams as required to detail,analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Architecting and implementing Cloud solutions for BI requirements,release management and scripting (Bash based on solutions).
Key Responsibilities:
Minimum Requirements (Mandatory)
- Proposed resources must have:
- at minimum of seven (7) years’ experience as aqualified Azure Technical Consultant in Microsoft technologies, providing clearevidence of supporting similar scale Microsoft cloud ecosystems
- skillsets in Microsoft 365 administration, includingOffice 365, Exchange Online, Azure Entra ID, and Intune Endpoint Management.
- Experience of working in conjunction with and/or aspartof public/civil service ICT teams.
Qualifications
- It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resourceproposed hold the following qualifications or equivalents:
- Certified Computer Science or associated technologyqualification
- Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance &Identity Fundamentals (SC-900), or more recent equivalent
- Microsoft 365 Certified: Fundamentals (MS-900), ormore recent equivalent
Language Requirements
- Fluent English language skills (C2 Proficient)
Requirements
- Design, deploy, maintain and support of Hybrid Infrastructure estateacross Azure Cloud, Office 365 and OGCIO-BTS federated services.
- Configuration and management of core component Azure IaaS/SaaS servicesand maintain these across the cloud ecosystem.
- Maintains cloud ecosystems services, with key contribution to SOPdevelopment for internal ICT Support services team.
- Ensure ICT ecosystem and environment aligned with OMB-ICT and OGCIO-BTSsecurity strategies and policies.
- Clear in communication, customer facing roles.
- Experience in managing Microsoft Azure ecosystem technologies andco-ordination in cloud-native implementation / migration projects.
- Working in multi-vendor and cross-business unit environments.
- Microsoft Azure - Successfully completed Azure examsand certifications around Azure administration.
- Microsoft Certified: Microsoft 365 Fundamentals
- Microsoft Certified: Security, Compliance & Identity Fundamentals