Cloud Senior Architect

Country: Netherlands 
City: Amsterdam, The Netherlands 
Req ID: 519409
Job Type: Full Time   
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior Level 

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 Technology will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As Cloud DevOps 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 DevOps 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.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities
In this role, you will:
• Cloud architecture solutioning
• Cloud DevOps, 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, DevOps practices and hackathons
• Cross-vertical 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 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

Key Characteristics
• 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

      
Key Functional Competencies 
Technical skills
Azure Cloud Architecture
• IaaS and PaaS Architecture (Azure Solution Expert Certified)

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

Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, 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 TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, load balancing, and firewalls
• Security Best Practices: Implementing security in DevOps (e.g., IAM policies, network security, vulnerability scanning, encryption)
• Zero Trust, OAuth, OpenID, TLS/SSL: Experience with modern security protocols and practices

Agile Methodologies
• Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban for iterative and efficient software delivery
• Expertise in managing teams and processes aligned with DevOps principles

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM): Experience with IaC tools to automate infrastructure provisioning
• Ansible, Puppet, Chef: Configuration management tools for maintaining and deploying infrastructure

Containers and Orchestration
• Docker: Knowledge in containerization of applications and services
• Kubernetes, OpenShift: Skills in container orchestration, deployment, and management of large-scale, containerized applications

Soft Skills
• Language: English (Fluent) Desirable: Second European Language (preferred)
• Know how on 
• Excellent Written and Verbal communication skills with people at all levels across the organisation
• The ability to translate business requirements into viable technical solutions
• Good stakeholder management skills (all directions). Able to describe and push new concepts

Experience / Education
You are/have:
• +10 years of experience
• Experienced Cloud Solution Architect / DevOps Architect, coming either from Large Enterprise. Certified in Azure!
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in IT related discipline
• Working in cross-functional teams on a European or Global level

Other (Key) Dimensions
Key stakeholders for this position are:
• Global Information Security 
• Europe IT Operations Team
• IT Management Operating Companies
• European IT Leadership Team
• Key vendors

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.

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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.