Cloud Senior Architect

Position Overview

Joining CRH Europe Technology will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As Cloud Dev Ops Senior Architect, you will be part of the Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE), you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as understand how the complexity of Information Technology supporting the global building-materials business.

You will be exposed to a wide and challenging range of business issues through regular engagement with key stakeholders across all management levels within CRH.

You will work and communicate across geographical and cultural borders that will enable you to build a strong professional network. We believe people thrive when they are in charge of their career paths and professional growth. We will provide you with opportunities to broaden your knowledge and strengthen your technical and professional foundation.

By choosing CRH, you join not only for the role, but for a career.

We aim to be a worldclass professional Technology organization that delivers business value through automation, standardization and innovation. We believe in empowerment where each of us takes ownership and responsibility for developing and implementing new ways of working.

As the Cloud Dev Ops Senior Architect, you will be in the forefront of defining and implementing our world-class Cloud practices and the supporting toolchain to achieve our goal of building first-class cloud-based services. The focus will be on time to market and accelerating the business in delivering digital innovation.

• Cloud architecture solutioning
• Cloud Dev Ops, maintaining CI / CD, infrastructure as code pipeline
• Participate in CRH IT platform modernization across a broad and diverse set of operating companies and technologies
• Establish and evolve a set of modern architecture principles (Guardrails)
• Evolve our cloud native tools to accommodate the need of our strategic technology programs
• Ensure “Secure By Design” practices are widely adopted
• Be a cloud evangelist to help others realize the value of modern cloud capabilities
• Support new ways of work like Agile Development, Dev Ops practices and hackathons
• Cross-vertical support and alignment on solution architecture
• Document designs as part of sprints, easing up transition into Operations

• You are able to:
  Drive Results - Consistently achieving objectives in a fast-moving and broad environment
• Collaborate - Building partnerships and working collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives
• Make Quality Decisions - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organisation moving forward
• Analytical & driving results - assist in developing and deploying key governance, processes & procedures

• Visionary Moderniser – able to think outside the situation on the ground and drive toward best-in-class modern technology and practice
• Critical thinker – is a problem solver and resolves conflicts
• Strong communication skills – both oral and written skills as listening and presentation skills
• Reliable – can be trusted with a challenging task
• Passionate and dedicated – is energetic and eager to learn new technologies, advise and develop others
• Motivated – stays motivated and can deal with resistance
• Understand and manage Customer expectations

Technical skills

Azure Cloud Architecture

• IaaS and PaaS Architecture (Azure Solution Expert Certified)

Scripting

• Bash, Python, Power Shell, Go:
  Proficiency in scripting languages for automating routine tasks and integrations

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

• Git Hub Actions, Git Lab CI/CD, Circle
  
  CI, Travis CI:
  Deep knowledge of automating build, testing, and deployment pipelines
• Version Control:
  Strong experience with Git and version control strategies (branching, merging, etc.)
• Collaboration & Issue Tracking: JIRA, Confluence for coordinating between teams

Monitoring, Logging, and Performance Tuning

• Grafana, Datadog:
  Skills in monitoring systems' performance and logs to ensure uptime and identify performance bottlenecks

Networking & Security

• Networking Concepts:
  Knowledge in…