Infrastructure Leader: Cloud, Risk & Resilience

Vodafone; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Competitive salary + bonus

Strong pension

Health & wellbeing programme

On-site gym & wellness centre

Job summary

Vodafone Ireland is seeking a high-impact Infrastructure and Operations leader to guide the enterprise’s technology delivery. You will own the lifecycle roadmap, drive cloud migration, and ensure resilient platforms, while managing costs and supplier performance.

You will collaborate with cyber, architecture, delivery, and business stakeholders to align priorities and deliver secure, compliant outcomes across the infrastructure estate.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership experience across infrastructure, cyber, resilience, or enterprise technology operations.
• Proven ability to manage governance, risk, compliance, and audit-related activity in a complex IT environment.
• Experience leading cross-functional programmes, technical roadmaps, and service transition or decommissioning activity.
• Strong understanding of infrastructure lifecycle management, patching, resilience, and cloud governance.
• Financial and commercial awareness, including budget management and cost optimisation.
• Ability to lead through influence across matrix teams and multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to provide clear updates to both technical and senior business stakeholders.
• High attention to detail, strong decision-making capability, and a disciplined approach to execution and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the infrastructure team, ensuring priorities are clear, delivery is coordinated, and outcomes are achieved on time.
• Own the infrastructure lifecycle roadmap, including technology refresh, end-of-life remediation, decommissioning, and service migration, ensuring risk is reduced in a controlled and business-aligned manner.
• Ensure infrastructure compliance and control effectiveness across cyber security policy, patching, audit readiness, policy adherence, and operational assurance.
• Lead service resilience and continuity planning, including disaster recovery, geo-resilience, and recovery readiness across critical platforms.
• Oversee major infrastructure and platform initiatives, including cloud migration, transition, consolidation, and transformation activity.
• Manage infrastructure suppliers and service partners, ensuring delivery meets SLAs, contractual obligations, performance expectations, and service quality standards.
• Own infrastructure financial performance, including cloud Opex, budget planning, cost optimisation, and allocation of funding across operational priorities, remediation, and small change initiatives.
• Provide support ownership for SIRO, managing escalations and day-to-day support for the SIRO OSS and BSS solution.
• Maintain effective governance, reporting, and stakeholder engagement across infrastructure delivery, operational risk, compliance, and strategic priorities.
• Act as Operational and Cyber Risk Champion for Digital & IT, driving visibility, accountability, and proactive risk management across the infrastructure estate.

Skills

Leadership

Governance & risk

Cross-functional leadership

Infrastructure lifecycle

Financial awareness

Stakeholder influence

Communication

Attention to detail

Job description

Vodafone Ireland is seeking a high-impact Infrastructure and Operations leader to guide the enterprise’s technology delivery. You will own the lifecycle roadmap, drive cloud migration, and ensure resilient platforms, while managing costs and supplier performance.

You will collaborate with cyber, architecture, delivery, and business stakeholders to align priorities and deliver secure, compliant outcomes across the infrastructure estate.