Lead/Senior Cloud Engineer

Randstad Global Capability Center; Dublin; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Randstad Global Capability Center is seeking an experienced Cloud Architect to lead the design, deployment, and continual optimization of multi-cloud environments. You will drive scalable architectures, mentor engineering teams, and enforce security and governance across platforms.

You will work with Kubernetes and containerized workloads, implement IaC with Terraform/Ansible, and shape CI/CD pipelines to improve reliability and speed. Strong scripting and DevOps best practices are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and operating enterprise SaaS platforms on AWS, Azure, and GCP.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Cloud-native tech

Kubernetes orchestration

Python

Go

Java

Bash

CI/CD

Linux administration

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Docker

Elasticsearch

Kafka

MySQL

MongoDB

Job description

• Architecture & Strategy: Spearhead the end-to-end design, implementation, and optimization of highly available, resilient, and scalable multi-cloud environments aligned with core business objectives.
• Technical Leadership & Governance: Provide technical direction and mentorship to the engineering team; conduct in-depth code/design reviews and drive team-wide best practices.
• Security & Compliance: Establish and enforce enterprise-grade security policies, compliance standards, and automated governance across cloud environments.
• Process Automation: Champion initiatives to eliminate manual overhead through end-to-end automation, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and workflow optimization.

Core Qualifications

• Extensive experience architecting and operating enterprise SaaS platforms on major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP) beyond core compute.
• Strong leadership in cloud-native technologies, microservices architectures, orchestration (Kubernetes), and SecOps frameworks.
• Advanced scripting/development capabilities in Python, Go, Java, or Bash, alongside advanced IaC tooling (Terraform, Ansible).
• Deployment & Operations: Deploy, maintain, troubleshoot, and fine-tune backend infrastructure systems to guarantee uptime, stability, and scale.
• CI/CD Pipeline Management: Build, enhance, and support automated continuous integration and delivery pipelines (Jenkins, Git, Artifactory) across development teams.
• Microservices & Orchestration: Manage and scale containerized services in production environments utilizing Docker and Kubernetes.
• Reliability & Troubleshooting: Proactively identify bottlenecks, optimize system performance, and resolve complex infrastructure issues.
• 3-8 years of hands-on experience in cloud infrastructure, site reliability, or DevOps engineering.
• Proven track record deploying containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Hands-on proficiency with CI/CD tools, Linux/*nix system administration, and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Working knowledge of databases and streaming architectures (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka).