Lead Cloud Infrastructure Engineer

Mediahuis IRL; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Mediahuis IRL in Dublin is seeking a Lead System Administrator to own, secure, and optimise cloud and infrastructure services in a hybrid environment. You will guide incident response, automate with Terraform, and drive security, monitoring, and cost-efficient operations.

Join a hands-on infrastructure leadership role that supports critical business operations, collaborates with development teams, and mentors colleagues to adopt best practices across the organisation.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in infrastructure and systems administration.
• Strong expertise in AWS cloud services and cloud infrastructure management.
• Experience supporting highly available, business-critical production environments.
• Proven success delivering infrastructure automation and CI/CD solutions.
• Strong background in infrastructure security, disaster recovery, and incident management.
• Experience working within modern DevOps and cloud-native environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure environments.
• Manage Linux servers, virtualised environments, and supporting platforms.
• Design, implement, and maintain Infrastructure as Code solutions using Terraform.
• Lead response and recovery activities for major incidents and service outages.
• Develop and enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability capabilities.
• Drive infrastructure automation initiatives to improve efficiency and scalability.
• Ensure security controls, governance standards, and compliance requirements are met.
• Plan and execute disaster recovery testing and business continuity activities.
• Support development teams with deployment pipelines and infrastructure requirements.
• Optimise platform reliability, performance, and cloud expenditure.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend infrastructure improvements.
• Mentor colleagues and promote technical best practices across the organisation.

Skills

AWS

Linux Admin

Terraform

IaC

Networking

Cloud Security

CI/CD

Monitoring

DR/BC

Scripting

Tools

Terraform

Job description

Mediahuis IRL in Dublin is seeking a Lead System Administrator to own, secure, and optimise cloud and infrastructure services in a hybrid environment. You will guide incident response, automate with Terraform, and drive security, monitoring, and cost-efficient operations.

Join a hands-on infrastructure leadership role that supports critical business operations, collaborates with development teams, and mentors colleagues to adopt best practices across the organisation.