Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) Engineer

Join CRH as a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) Engineer

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 approximately 78,500 people at 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.

Position Overview

We aim to be a world-class professional Technology organisation that delivers business value through automation, standardisation and innovation. As a Cloud Centre of Excellence (CCoE) Engineer, you will be at 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.

The CCoE Engineer is responsible for setting up and maintaining tools, testing environments, and infrastructure. This role involves building and deploying code for the automation of servers and services into production environments. The CCoE Engineer will play a crucial role in developing cloud templates, ensuring industry-standard cloud performance and compliance, and removing manual build processes for infrastructure services.

Key Tasks and Responsibilities

• Develop automation and orchestration solutions, such as maintaining CI / CD pipeline and infrastructure as code templates.
• Establish and evolve a set of modern architecture principles (guardrails) for the Cloud environment.
• Design and implement cloud architectures that meet business needs and objectives.
• Develop a baseline monitoring and tooling concept for cloud to address the need for compliance infrastructure reporting within agile deliveries as part of our Observability strategy.
• Develop concepts and tools for chargeback and showback (Financial Instrumentation) in a multicloud context.
• Implement and mature a cloud forecasting and capacity management solution for the enterprise.
• Collaborate with other IT teams and stakeholders to ensure alignment and support for cloud initiatives.
• Develop Cloud infrastructure templates and support migrations to ensure a standardised Cloud environment across the organisation.
• Participate in CRH IT platform modernisation across a broad and diverse set of operating companies and technologies.
• 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, pushing self and others to accomplish goals
• Cultivate Innovation - Creating new and better ways for the organisation to be successful
• 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

For this role you should be/have:

• Critical thinker – is a problem solver and resolves conflicts.
• Customer Focused – Looks for ways to innovate to improve the focus on the customer.
• Motivated – stays motivated and can deal with resistance.
• Passionate and dedicated – is energetic and eager to learn new technologies, advise and develop others.
• An inclination to drill into detail and to take corrective action early and decisively.

Key Functional Competencies

You possess the following soft skills:

• Proven project management skills, with the ability to work well under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Language: English (Fluent). Desirable: Second European Language (preferred)
• Excellent Written and Verbal communication skills with people at all levels across the organisation.
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to handle multiple priorities.
• The ability to translate business requirements into viable technical solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills (all directions).
• The ability to communicate complex concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

You possess the following Technology skills:

• Proficiency in scripting languages – e.g. Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) – Deep knowledge of automating build, testing, and deployment pipelines – e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, CircleCI, Travis CI
• Version Control – Strong experience with Git and version control strategies (branching, merging, etc.)
• Collaboration & Issue Tracking – e.g. JIRA, Confluence
• Monitoring, Logging, and Performance Tuning – Skills in monitoring systems' performance and logs to ensure uptime and identify performance bottlenecks – e.g. Grafana, Datadog
• 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)
• Security Protocols – Experience with modern security protocols and practices – e.g. Zero Trust, OAuth, OpenID, TLS/SSL
• Agile Methodologies – Experience with Agile, Scrum, and Kanban
• DevOps – Expertise in managing processes aligned with DevOps principles
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) – Experience with IaC tools to automate infrastructure provisioning – e.g. Terraform, Azure Resource Manager (ARM)
• Configuration Management – Experience with tools for maintaining and deploying infrastructure – e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef
• Containers and Orchestration – Skills in container orchestration, deployment, and management of large-scale, containerized applications – e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift

Experience / Education

You are/have:

• Minimum of 5 years hands-on, technical experience of working as part of a Cloud development / operations team.
• College diploma or university degree in business, information systems, or a related technical field.
• Experience working in the construction materials or industrial manufacturing sector.
• Proven experience of working in a federated matrix model.
• Experienced with multiple Cloud software products, platforms and vendors.
• Strong professional accreditations / certifications such as Azure, AWS, Google etc.

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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