Platform Engineer Azure

What is the opportunity?

Be part of the team reshaping the use of Cloud in the leading Irish Bank and enable the digital transformation for our customers.

You'll join a group of dedicated engineers and architects who are building native features in a fresh built platform.

The purpose of the Cloud Platform Engineer is to support in the delivery of excellent Customer Service through the provisioning of Cloud Services.

In this Role, you will :

Define and implement automation with open source technology to deliver immutable infrastructure and consistent environments

Develop new features in Cloud Platform as required by internal customers to support new projects

Define a monitoring strategy that allows the gathering and analysing of metrics from both infrastructure and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding.

Understand the importance of metrics & statistics and the ability to use these effectively in communication

Occasionally provide out of hours support for major incidents requiring 2nd / 3rd level analysis of Cloud Services

Support the Cloud Business Office (CBO) in understanding the cost and billing implications from a technical perspective and to provide input in arriving at a prioritised backlog of activity

Support in the definition and maintenance of a continuous integration and continuous delivery framework for the platform.

What will make you stand out?

You will be a subject matter expert on areas as they relate to customer applications and services (e.g., Azure, ADO and Terraform.).

The ability to work in a fast paced environment using Agile methodologies with minimal oversight or supervision.

Significant experience of cloud technologies especially Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps is essential.

A solid background in infrastructure management and design, with demonstrable experience of best of breed solutions for security, scalability and cost management gives you an advantage.

Good experience supporting green field projects and creating environments with strong monitoring, alerting and support solutions makes you an attractive candidate.

The ability to communicate the DevOps mindset and willingly share knowledge and be able to influence others supporting the value of the Cloud Centre of Excellence.

Being a holder of an Azure certification in Architecture, Admin or Developer is not required but will help you stand out.

Essential Qualifications

There are no specific qualifications or minimum educational requirements needed for this role

More about the team

The Cloud Centre of Excellence is a cross-functional team responsible for developing and managing the cloud platforms, governance, and best practices that the rest of the organisation can leverage to transform the business using the cloud.

The team helps lead the organisation in cloud adoption, migration, and operations ensure the strategy executions and the benefits of the cloud.

This is a hybrid onsite role and can be done anywhere in the Republic of Ireland with the primary office location as ITC, Cabinteely, Dublin 18.

Travel will be required for in-person collaboration - exact frequency to be agreed with manager.

Travel frequency details : hybrid role.

Why work with us?

The Bank of Ireland company culture prioritises work-life balance with a commitment to hybrid working, along with 23 days annual leave and excellent pension contributions.

Family can mean different things to different people; we offer 6 months paid maternity leave, an innovative fertility and surrogacy policy along with working parent and carer supports.

Your health and wellbeing is important to us; we offer a substantial health insurance contribution, employee assistance program, WebDoctor and financial wellbeing coaches.

We also encourage and support staff to pursue educational and professional qualifications to grow and enhance your career!

At the heart of our purpose is our commitment to Inclusion & Diversity :

Bank of Ireland Group is an equal opportunities employer and is committed to fostering an inclusive workplace which values and benefits from the diversity of our workforce, this is supported by the development of our Employee Support Networks.

We offer reasonable accommodation at every stage of the application and interview process.

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We're on a continuous journey to build an inclusive and diverse workplace.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, lived experience, abilities and perspectives.

We provide reasonable accommodations at every stage of our recruitment process for disabilities, neurodivergence or medical conditions.

If you require an accommodation please complete this form and one of our recruitment team members will be in touch via email.

Any information provided will be treated as confidential within the recruitment team and used only for the purpose of determining and providing appropriate accommodations for the application and recruitment process.

Where Agency assistance is required Bank of Ireland Recruitment Team will engage directly with suppliers.

Unsolicited CVs / profiles supplied to Bank of Ireland by Recruitment Agencies will not be accepted for this role.

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