Cloud Architect

Job

Title: Cloud Architect

Office Location: Dublin 2,

Ireland (Hybrid, Minimum one day per week

onsite (Thursday preferred))

Contract Start Date: Early Jan

2027

Contract: 12 Months, with

further extensions anticipated to go upto 3 years.

Organisation Overview

The organisation

supports six independent statutory bodies that share centralised Corporate

Services, including ICT support.

Its IT environment is

built around a Microsoft Azure cloud ecosystem, supporting key applications

such as Dynamics 365, SharePoint Online and bespoke business applications. The

environment leverages Microsoft 365 security services, including Defender for

Office 365, Defender for Cloud and Defender for Endpoint.

The organisation is

seeking Cloud Architect to support the ongoing development, management and

security of its Azure environment. Responsibilities include optimising existing

cloud infrastructure, implementing best-practice architecture, strengthening security

controls and ensuring alignment with NIS2, Irish NCSC guidance and public

sector cybersecurity requirements.

The scope covers the

organisation's Azure cloud environment, with coordination required with

external ICT providers where cross-tenant integrations or dependencies arise.

Nature

of the Services Required:

The Cloud Architect will assist the Office through services not limited to;

·Responsible for aligning the organisation Cloud strategy with its

business strategy.

·Creation, maintenance and management of Cloud architecture models and

their components.

·Developing Infrastructure, network and security designs for new and

existing solutions.

·Devising code release management and process improvements

·Maintaining and creating CI/CD pipelines

·Improving performance management and monitoring of applications and

resources, as needed

·Deploying guard-rails and security ring-fencing for artificial

intelligence agents and /or agentic solutions, in accordance with best

practices and Office policy.

·Participating in data solution design discussions

Key Responsibilities:

Minimum Requirements (Mandatory)

It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource

proposed must have:

·at minimum of seven (7) years’ experience as a qualified Azure Cloud

Solutions Architect on Microsoft technologies, providing clear evidence of

supporting similar scale Microsoft cloud ecosystems

·skillsets in Microsoft Azure cloud solutions development and deployment,

with secure access over Office 365, Exchange Online, Azure Entra ID, MS

Defender and integrations with PowerPlatform / Dynamics 365 application

stack.

·Experience of working in conjunction with and/or as part of public/civil

service ICT cloud systems development and deployment teams.

·Experience of delivering Cloud Architecture services and solutions using

architecture/SDLC methodologies

Qualifications

It is a mandatory requirement, that the Resource

proposed hold the following qualifications or equivalents:

·Certified Computer Science or associated technology qualification

·Microsoft Certified Professional (Expert), or more recent

equivalent

·Microsoft Azure Security Architect, or more recent equivalent

·Microsoft Azure Security Engineer, or more recent equivalent

·Microsoft Certified DevOps Solution Specialist

·Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert, or more recent

equivalent

·Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect, or more recent equivalent

Language Requirements

·Fluent English language skills (C2 Proficient)

Requirements

Key Deliverables

The following

non-exhaustive list of Key Deliverables are applicable to this Role.

·Performing Security assessments and design for Cloud

native security products

·Performing Cloud adoption assessment and well

architected assessment for existing environment for gap analysis

·Performing feasibility assessments with the Office and

developing proposals / statements of work against business requirements

·Clear in communication, customer facing roles

·Experience in managing Microsoft Technologies

implementation/migration projects for both cloud and on-premises

·Working in multi-vendor and multi-business unit

environments

·Experience in design, development and implementation

of Client Dashboards

·Design, deploy, maintain and support of Hybrid

Infrastructure estate across Azure Cloud, Office 365 and OGCIO-BTS federated

services.

·Ensure ICT ecosystem and environment aligned with

OMB-ICT and OGCIO-BTS security strategies and policies.

·Clear in communication, customer facing roles.

·Experience in managing Microsoft Azure ecosystem

technologies and co-ordination in cloud-native implementation / migration

projects.

·Working in multi-vendor and cross-business unit

environments.

Key Experience/Competencies/Skillsets

The following

Experience/Competencies/Skillsets are applicable to this Role.

·Microsoft Azure - Successfully completed Azure exams

and certifications around Azure Infrastructure services, Azure Data Service and

Azure Security and compliance

oMicrosoft Certified: Azure Security Architect

oMicrosoft Certified: Azure Architect

oMicrosoft Certified: Designing and Implementing

Microsoft DevOps Solutions

oMicrosoft Certified: Data Engineer

Experience public/civil

service environment

·Delivering digital services transformation projects /

programs.

·Leading design workshops and ROI analysis for

enterprise architecture development

·Leading and implementing end-to-end solutions for

secure applications and cloud portal platforms

·Understanding business requirements, perform gap

analysis, problem solving, requirement mapping, solution designing,

implementing, and customizing the product/solutions as per business

requirements.

·Strong knowledge of Azure and AWS Infrastructure as a

service (IaaS) and Platform as a service (PaaS).

·Strong Knowledge of Microsoft security stack

implementations and design

·Experience in designing available, cost-efficient,

fault-tolerant and scalable distributed systems on MS Azure ecosystem

·Experience with designing public cloud landing-zones

for public-sector specific customer bases.

·Capability to provide best practices for building

secure and reliable applications on the MS Azure platform.

·Identifying appropriate use of Azure and possibly AWS

architectural best practices, especially in failover / resilience scenarios.

·Responsible for the architecture and automation of the

CI/CD platform and cloud infrastructure and review of cloud efficiencies

(reporting).

·Maintaining consistent DevOps approach, tools and

standards, ensuring the Office’s DevOps strategy is implemented at every stage

of the end-to-end development

·Assist in building version-control systems, branching

strategies and have implemented same across life cycle of products/solutions.

·Expert at automation for cloud infrastructure from

automating machine images to setting up of immutable instances and promoting

code from dev to QA to Production.

·Experience with deploying and managing applications

and infrastructure with scripting and infrastructure as a code on public cloud.

·Estimating Azure/AWS costs and identifying cost

control mechanisms in the context of cloud-based solutions.