Cloud Engineer – Data Act
- 📍 Location: Dublin City Centre (Hybrid working model)
- 💰 Salary: €64,746.40 per annum
- 📜 Requirements: Full Irish work rights required (EU Citizen / Stamp 4)
- Contract - 2 years
The Role & Impact
The EU Data Act mandates the removal of cloud-switching barriers. The client is the designated authority enforcing compliance across Europe’s Data Processing industry.
As a Data Act Cloud Engineer, you will provide vital technical support to a newly formed team managing market investigations, compliance testing, and industry disputes.
Key Responsibilities
- Technical Analysis: Provide cloud engineering insights for market investigations, customer complaints, and regulatory policy papers.
- Tool Development: Develop and implement technical infrastructure, automated tools, and testing systems to monitor regulatory compliance.
- Compliance Investigation: Audit regulated entities against Data Act interoperability and cloud-switching standards.
- Engagement: Contribute to briefing papers and present technical evidence to government departments, industry bodies, and EU regulators.
Essential Criteria
- Education: 3rd level qualification (NFQ Level 7/8) in Cloud Services, Engineering, or a directly relevant STEM discipline.
- Experience: 3+ years of operational experience managing cloud workloads, specifically managing core Azure services (AKS, Virtual WAN, Cosmos DB, Entra ID).
- Multi-Cloud: Working knowledge or hands-on experience with GCP core services.
- Containers & IaC: Practical experience packaging applications with Docker, deploying to Kubernetes, and foundational knowledge of Terraform.
- Automation & Architecture: Experience with scripted automation, CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps), and setup/administration of local open-source clouds (e.g., OpenStack).
- Communication: Strong technical drafting and communication skills for internal and external reports.
- Previous experience in a regulated industry or public sector compliance environment.
- Familiarity with custom computing platforms, hardware accelerators, and AI workloads.
- Professional certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate or Google Cloud Certified Associate Cloud Engineer.
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