Cloud Delivery Lead

eir business talent are currently seeking applicants for a Cloud Delivery Lead. This is a day rate contract position located with our client in Cork. This is a hybrid role requiring 2 days onsite per week. We’re looking for an experienced technology delivery leader to take ownership of a substantial portfolio of Azure cloud projects. The successful person will sit above the day-to-day engineering activity, taking responsibility for delivery, people, capacity, budgets, priorities and stakeholder management across approximately 15–16 concurrent projects and an 8–10 person cloud team. We’re particularly interested in people who have progressed from a technical cloud/infrastructure background into programme and delivery leadership. This is not a hands-on Cloud Engineer or Cloud Architect role. We’re looking for someone who understands Azure infrastructure technically, but whose recent experience has focused on leading teams, managing complex programmes and taking accountability for delivery.

Responsibilities

Lead approximately 15–16 concurrent cloud projectsManage a cloud team of approximately 8–10 peopleOwn project plans, priorities, resourcing and budgetsManage capacity across multiple competing workstreamsLead and develop cloud engineering and architecture resourcesManage dependencies, delivery risks and escalationsWork closely with senior technical and business stakeholdersChallenge priorities and push back when demand exceeds capacityProvide oversight and direction across an Azure cloud environmentExperience:Strong Cloud Programme / Delivery Management experienceExperience managing multiple concurrent technology projectsProven people and resource management experienceBudget and delivery accountabilityStrong senior stakeholder management skillsGood technical understanding of Microsoft AzureEnough technical depth to challenge Architects and Engineers without needing to do the engineering yourselfTerraform / Infrastructure as Code knowledge is beneficial, but not the main requirementFor more information please apply here or contact Niall Moloney/ niall(dot)moloney(at)eirbusiness(dot)ieRef: EBT8392Candidates must be eligible to work full time and long term in the location specified or currently hold a valid appropriate long term work Visa to apply.eir business talent, eir business and our clients are equal opportunity employers who seeks to recruit and appoint the best available person for a job regardless of marital / civil partnership status, sex (including pregnancy), age, religion, belief, race, nationality and ethnic or national origin, colour, sexual orientation or disability. eir business talent, eir business and our clients apply all relevant Data Protection laws when processing your Personal Data.If you choose to apply to this opportunity and share your CV or other personal information with eir business talent, eir business and our clients, these details will be held by us in accordance with our privacy policy used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at eir business talent and eir business.