Infrastructure Senior Architect

Join CRH: Building a More Resilient and Sustainable World

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

Joining CRH Europe Technology will embark you on a great journey with career development in a global organization. As Infrastructure Senior Architect, you will be part of the technology architecture, you will gain broad business knowledge of the company’s activities globally, as well as understand how the complexity of Information Technology supports 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 world-class 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 Infrastructure Senior Architect, you will be in the forefront of defining and implementing our world-class information technology 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

• Have the ability to maintain and improve deep technical requirements and architecture patterns and technologies to build and run a full-stack API and UI hosting platform.
• Deliver high quality environments in line with architectural standards and project delivery requirements.
• Participate in CRH IT platform modernization across a broad and diverse set of operating companies and technologies.
• Provide an end-to-end architecture technical solution for merger & acquisition & divestment migration.
• Experience in cloud solution but also aware of and comfortable working with traditional legacy architecture. Experience of secure hybrid end-to-end solutions.
• Establish and evolve a set of modern architecture principles (Guardrails).
• 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 align on solution architecture.
• Document designs as part of sprints, easing up transition into Operations.

Individual Competencies

• 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

• Transformation mindset using an approach of persuasion and encouragement that embeds sustainable capabilities.
• 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

• Highly technical full-stack competency in globally distributed system.
• Knowledge of Cyber-Security.
• Knowledge of Active Directory and Entra ID.
• General understanding about database technologies.
• Windows and Linux Servers Architecture.
• Knowledge and experience of Zero Trust Architecture Solution.
• Knowledge of End Point Technologies.
• Knowledge of Backup Solutions.
• Code re-use and documentation.
• Azure knowledge is a Plus.

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.

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 & 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).
• 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

• +10 years of experience.
• Experienced Cloud 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

• 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.

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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