Senior Cloud Engineer

PFH Technology Group is hiring a Senior Cloud Engineer to join the technical consulting and managed service providing team within the organization. This is a full-time permanent position, offering remote first working conditions with monthly to bi-monthly onsite requirements.

The role is seeking a senior-level technical person in the team working with cloud technologies in Azure projects and operations with a focus on best practices, security and maintenance. The main focus of this role is cloud services design, infrastructure as code definition, automated deployment (DevOps/CICD), automated operations, and security. Strong involvement and exposure to a broad range of cloud services and technologies is guaranteed. Responsibilities, among other things, are to carry out solution design, automation and infrastructure as code development, HA/FT/performance tuning, troubleshooting, manage operations, ensure security, and much more.

The Must-have Skills

• Experienced with infrastructure as code and deployment automation.
• Strong experience with writing infrastructure as code with any of CDK, Terraform, and or CloudFormation (or other equivalent).
• Strong experience with automated deployment tooling with Azure DevOps.
• Very good understanding of multiple cloud services in Azure.
• Experience with design of cloud solutions in Azure.
• Reasonable familiarity with servers operating systems, networking, data stores, databases, and identity access management.

The Nice-to-have Exposures

• Scripting.
• Python.
• PowerShell.
• Azure AD integration with applications, cloud IAM, and cloud services.
• MySQL.

The Work

• A cloud engineer working predominantly with Azure, who has been involved in analysis, design, planning and delivery on key client projects and engagements. This includes automated deployment of various applications stacks, ongoing configuration, and operations etc.
• A strong player in cloud service design, usage, optimization and administration within our organization.
• Working with the project delivery team in a distributed work environment where the work is delivered by team members, third party service providers and client personnel.
• Building knowledge of new technologies and techniques as they become relevant to the organization and our client projects.

The Person

• A technical person who demonstrates strong knowledge and proficiency across a number of technologies with the ability to get things done!
• Has worked as a valued technical team member.
• Organized, quality-oriented and able to manage time and priorities.
• Well able to communicate clearly and concisely in the written and spoken word (in fluent English).
• A clear-thinking problem solver, who is comfortable making decisions.
• Courageous and action-oriented – someone who steps forward and gets ‘stuck in’.
• Flexible, creative and comfortable with change.
• Enthusiastic about learning and ambitious.

PFH Technology, owned by Ricoh – a Japanese based global ICT company, is a premier provider of end-to-end ICT solutions and a managed services portfolio scaling from SMEs to large Enterprise organizations. We have unrivalled vendor relationships. We can procure, design, deploy and support all your ICT needs. Our ISO certified Custodian™ Cloud Services and Custodian™ Managed Services provide the technology and expertise to mitigate risk and reduce your costs immediately. We have a nationwide network of over 750 dedicated professionals, ready to meet your ICT needs, with offices in Dublin, Cork and Galway.