Cloud Governance Architect - Amsterdam

Country: Netherlands 
City: Amsterdam 
Req ID: 501571

About CRH

We are CRH, and we are committed to contributing to a more resilient and sustainable built environment. We understand the wider impact our businesses can make in supporting human activity. We continue to do this through the delivery of unique, superior building materials and products for use in road and critical utility infrastructure, commercial building projects and outdoor living solutions.

CRH (NYSE: CRH, LSE: CRH) is the leading provider of building materials solutions that build, connect and improve our world. Employing c.78,500 people at c.3,390 operating locations in 28 countries, CRH has market leadership positions in both North America and Europe. As the essential partner for transportation and critical utility infrastructure projects, complex non-residential construction and outdoor living solutions, CRH’s unique offering of materials, products and value-added services helps to deliver a more resilient and sustainable built environment. The company is ranked among sector leaders by Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating agencies. A Fortune 500 company, CRH’s shares are listed on the NYSE and LSE.

Without you noticing our products, we are everywhere you live, work, and relax.

Our project portfolio includes some of the most sustainable and cutting-edge building projects around the world. Think of the asphalt on the Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit, the Paris Metro Rail project, but also the Louis Vuitton Museum in Paris, parts of the Burj Khalifa, and the Kennedy Space Centre.

Learn more about us through the following Link.

Position Overview
Joining CRH Europe IT will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As Cloud Governance Architect, you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as understand how the complexity of IT 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 IT 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 Governance Architect, you will be in the forefront of defining and implementing our Cloud governance 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.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:

• Establish and evolve a set of modern architecture principles (Guardrails).
• Develop a baseline monitoring and tooling concept for cloud to address the need for compliance infrastructure reporting within agile deliveries as part of the Observability
• Develop a roadmap and implement a Unified Observability that’s cloud first
• Develop concepts and tools for chargeback and showback (Financial Instrumentation) in a multicloud context.
• Develop best practices for cost reduction and drive local cost ownership.
• Implement and mature a cloud forecasting and capacity management solution for the enterprise.
• Evolve our cloud native tools to accommodate the need of our strategic technology programs.
• Ensure support for commercial and legal requirements within our cloud estate.
• 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, DevOps practices and hackathons.
• Crossvertical support and alignment on solution architecture 
• Document designs as part of sprints, easing up transition into Operations.

Individual Competencies 
You are able to:

• Drive Results - Consistently achieving objectives, even under tough circumstances
• 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

Key Characteristics
You are/have:

• 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
• Diverse Leader – eager to lead & develop people and work in multi-cultural teams
• Understand and manage Customer expectations 

Key Functional Competencies 
You possess the following:

• Language: English (Fluent) Desirable: Second European Language (preferred)
• Excellent Written and Verbal communication skills with people at all levels across the organisation.
• Deep understanding of Cloud technology, primarily Azure – AWS is a plus.
• Cloud Azure and AWS Fundamental Certified is a must. Expert Certifications is a plus!
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as a Service, DevSecOps toolset and methodologies
• The ability to translate business requirements into viable technical solutions
• Analytical & driving results: assist in developing and deploying key governance, processes & procedures
• Other competencies: Pro-active / enthusiastic / good interpersonal skills
• Have a desire to work and succeed as part of a team

Experience / Education
You are/have:

• +10 years of experience
• Experienced Cloud Architect, coming either from Large Enterprise or small start¬up. Certified in Azure 
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT related discipline
• Working in cross-functional teams on a European or Global level

Technical skills: (Multiple)

• Public cloud experience (Azure, AWS is a plus)
• Have hands-on experience and be able to work with Terraform and Ansible
• Working experience with Observability tooling: such as Grafana, DataDog Splunk, etc.
• SCRUM/agile development
• DevOps Practices
• Powershell, and .Net
• Experience in Cloud security
• PaaS service in Azure
• Multi-cloud service models
• Automation (infrastructure as code) practices
• Kubernetes or Service Fabric
• Code re-use and documentation

Other (Key) Dimensions
Key stakeholders for this position are:

• Europe IT Operations Team
• IT Management Operating Companies
• Europe IT Leadership Team
• Key vendors (with the assistance of vendor manager)
   

What CRH Offers You

• A culture that values opportunity for growth, development, and internal promotion

• Highly competitive salary package

• Comprehensive secondary benefits

• Significant contribution to your pension plan

• Health and wellness programs, including an on-site gym and fitness classes

• Excellent opportunities to develop and progress with a global organization

Connect your future to CRH

We are curious to learn more about you. At CRH, we believe our mutual differences contribute to the healthy, productive, and enjoyable workspace we create. Please introduce yourself and send us your application.

Is this role not for you, but do you know someone who would love to join the team? Please let us know!

CRH finds it important that vacancies are shared to individuals that may find them interesting and/or could be suitable for the role

Please contact our recruitment team at careers@crh.com.

CRH is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

Benefits/perks listed above may vary depending on the nature of the employment with CRH and the country where you work.

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We do not accept candidate introductions for this position from recruitment agencies, unless you have been instructed to do so by our recruitment team.

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