Cloud Engineer – Tech Lead
Contract duration: 10 months initially
Pay: EUR 701.46/day umbrella, EUR 549.77/day
Location: Dublin (hybrid working)
We are looking for a Cloud Engineer with Tech Lead responsibilities. Engineer must have prior hands on experience of leveraging AI tools for build and execution productivity gains. Engineer must be strong in the Azure Cloud Ecosystem.
The Cloud Engineer – Technical Lead is responsible for leading the technical delivery and ongoing management of an Azure-based Business Intelligence product. This role focuses on the design, development, implementation, and support of cloud-hosted analytical solutions that leverage data-driven insights.
The successful candidate will bring strong hands-on experience applying AI technologies within day-to-day development activities and will demonstrate a solid understanding of data-centric products and compute options within the public cloud ecosystem. You will be expected to design, secure, and operate highly available Azure services in line with best practices for performance, scalability, and security.
In addition to technical leadership, this role plays a key part in fostering a positive, collaborative team culture and driving engineering excellence across the delivery team.
Primary Responsibilities:
• Design, configure and manage Infrastructure on the Azure Cloud for utilisation by products built by the OPEN team for external usage.
· Deliver and integrate features with upstream and backend dependencies
· Fulfil the role of Tech Lead on a new Team established to service Product requirements
· Provide guidance and mentorship to less experienced team members.
· Work alongside the Product, UI/UX and Architecture teams to design new features for the product
· Ensure security and data quality standards are established and enforced
· Stay current with emerging trends in Cloud and AI technologies and evaluate their impact on our products
· Build infrastructure using code (IaC) and repeatable designs.
· Identify opportunities for improvement, optimize performance and scalability of existing Cloud solutions
· Setup, maintain related documentation and standards and facilitate knowledge distribution across the Teams.
· Troubleshoot and debug complex technical issues and provide timely resolution to technical challenges
· Prioritize and manage work to critical project timelines in a fast-paced environment
· Partner with internal dependent teams to design best practices and standards for integrated systems facilitating a shared Product solution.
· Mentor and train junior members of the team.
Required Experience:
· Prior experience in a Tech/Team leads software engineer role
* Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology or a related field or equivalent experience
· Strong software product development experience on a public cloud ecosystem (AWS, Azure, GCP).
* Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate delivery and enhance engineering efficiency.
· Extensive hands-on experience developing Cloud solutions which demonstrate a strong understanding of software engineering principles
· Experience with REST/ JSON APIs, Java, Microservices, Containerization (Images, Docker)
· Excellent knowledge of a Public Cloud (Azu, AWS, GCP) Services such as – PaaS, FaaS, Workflow orchestrators, Service Principal, Containers, Secret management etc.
· Experience of IaC using tools such as Terraform.
· Strong programming experience with two or more languages (e.g Python, Java) and scripting for automation (e.g., Bash, PowerShell).
* Experience of hands-on utilization of SQL with large data volumes.
· Understanding of cloud security principles and practices.
· Hands on experience of securing cloud applications.
· Knowledge of data pipelines with an awareness on the importance of fault tolerance within the pipelines.
· Experience in using modern software engineering tooling (Jenkins, GHA, Sonar, Twist-Lock or alternatives etc.) and process in terms of Agile delivery in a CI/CD work environment.
· Excellent leadership and communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
· Strong problem-solving skills with attention to detail.
Preferred Experience:
· Experience with databases, data warehousing, and big data technologies (e.g., Databricks, Spark, DBT).
· Experience in the healthcare industry
· Excellent time management, communication, decision making, and presentation skills
· Display a strong desire to achieve and attain high levels of both internal and external customer satisfaction