Platform Owner, Public Cloud & Cloud Transformation Lead

Primark; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare

Pension

Bonus

27 days leave + bank holidays + buy 5

Tax Saver Tickets

Fitness centre

Subsidised cafeteria

Job summary

Primark is seeking a Platform Owner – Public Cloud to lead Cloud Engineering and SRE teams, shaping cloud strategy, architecture and governance with a focus on Azure-based, scalable platforms. You’ll partner with vendors, manage costs and security, and drive transformation across enterprise-scale systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, emphasize agile practices, and align roadmaps with business objectives while building resilient, self-service cloud platforms to accelerate product delivery.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of cloud leadership experience leading Cloud Engineering and/or SRE teams.
• Expert Microsoft Azure with PaaS, serverless, containerisation and IaC (Terraform).
• Strong cloud cost management, budgeting, forecasting, and governance across security and compliance.
• Advanced DevOps, CI/CD and observability capabilities with enterprise deployments.

Responsibilities

• Lead and scale Cloud Engineering & Operations, partnering with strategic technology vendors to deliver secure, self-service cloud platforms that accelerate product team delivery and customer value.
• Establish robust cloud governance and standards, ensuring excellence across cost management, security operations, deployment practices, compliance, and policy adherence.
• Drive operational performance and service quality, defining metrics and controls to improve availability, workload utilisation, SLA performance, service transition rigour, and security posture.
• Provide hands-on technical leadership, setting cloud strategy and architecture direction, resolving complex escalations, and communicating clearly with senior stakeholders.
• Build and develop high-performing engineering teams, including line management, mentoring, talent strategy execution, and fostering accountability through servant leadership.
• Support cloud transformation and strategic alignment, ensuring roadmaps, backlogs, and operating models align with business objectives while strengthening senior stakeholder and partner relationships.

Skills

Cloud leadership

Azure expertise

DevOps

CI/CD

Observability

Agile/Lean/DevOps

Architecture direction

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

Serverless

GCP

Job description

Primark is seeking a Platform Owner – Public Cloud to lead Cloud Engineering and SRE teams, shaping cloud strategy, architecture and governance with a focus on Azure-based, scalable platforms. You’ll partner with vendors, manage costs and security, and drive transformation across enterprise-scale systems.

You’ll mentor engineers, emphasize agile practices, and align roadmaps with business objectives while building resilient, self-service cloud platforms to accelerate product delivery.