Cloud Infrastructure Technical Lead

General information

Vacancy Reference number

About us

The purpose of the Cloud Infrastructure Tech Lead is to help with defining the Cloud Infrastructure strategy – adopting DevOps best practices and a Cloud First strategy, ensuring alignment with business goals and collaborating directly with senior leadership.

This is a highly technical role requiring a broad skill set, including technical leadership and direction, and a strong aptitude to understand business processes and systems. The role will fully support ADS, streamlining releases to Production and Cloud migration efforts for EI Tech.

What we offer

We offer a comprehensive benefits package.

Vacancy details

Role title

Cloud Infrastructure Technical Lead

Your role

• Technical Leadership: As a Tech Lead, you should guide the team in technical decisions, ensuring that the solutions are robust, scalable, and aligned with the company's technical standards. 
• Empowerment and Accountability: Encourage team members to take ownership of their work and be accountable for their outcomes. 
• Mentorship and Development: Invest in the growth of your team members by providing mentorship and opportunities for skill development. This helps in building a strong, capable team.
• Collaboration and Communication: Foster a collaborative environment where team members feel comfortable sharing ideas and feedback. Effective communication is key to ensuring that everyone is aligned with the project goals.
• Quality Assurance: Ensure that the team adheres to best practices in coding and testing. This involves regular code reviews and maintaining high standards of quality.
• Problem Solving: Take ownership of complex technical challenges and work with the team to find effective solutions.
• Accountability: Be accountable for the team's deliverables and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget. This involves setting clear expectations and holding team members responsible for their tasks.
• Continuous Improvement: Promote a culture of continuous learning and improvement. This involves staying updated with the latest industry trends and technologies and encouraging the team to do the same.
• Conflict Resolution: As a Senior Tech Lead, you should be adept at resolving conflicts within the team. This helps in maintaining a positive and productive work environment.
• Performance Metrics: Regularly track and measure the team's performance using relevant metrics. This helps in identifying areas for improvement and ensuring that the team is meeting its goals.
• Team Balance: Understand the strengths and weaknesses of your team members and create a balanced team that can work effectively together.
• Responsible for infrastructure as code (IAC) design, best practices, development, monitoring and alerting, continuous integration and automated deployments. 
• Collaborate with the software development team to design cloud native scalable solutions from proof of concept to production.  Impart DevOps knowledge and technical skills into the development team to broaden team capabilities. 
• Engage with the Cloud Infrastructure Architects and contribute to on-going review of the AWS environments to continuously improve performance and manage costs making a stable and flexible infrastructure delivering business requirements.
• Act as the primary liaison for cloud strategy across multiple departments (Security, Compliance, Business Units).
• Have a passion for learning new technologies and be a strong supporter of best DevOps and Cloud First practices. 
• Review new industry and Cloud developments to explore advantages which might be leveraged by Aer Lingus.

Your qualifications and key criteria

We are looking for an individual with experience / qualifications in the following areas:

• Leading design build and release processes for multiple environments to an integration layer for both test and production in AWS and on-prem servers.
• Deep understanding of Infrastructure as Code processes and technologies.
• Deep understanding of Cloud Technologies, AWS.
• Advanced Experience with Terraform, Terragrunt, Packer, Jenkins and Ansible a strong advantage.
• Advanced Experience with Atlantis, Terraform quality tools, build pipeline etc. desirable.
• Expertise in area of monitoring tools to find problems, issue resolution/troubleshooting, and/or issue escalation.
• Experience with Kubernetes.
• Strong Release Management and Configuration tools experience
• Understanding and experience with Agile and PCD methodologies.
• Expert level knowledge of AWS services such as WAF, CloudFront, API Gateway, EC2 etc.
• Advanced experience with Red Hat and Amazon Linux.
• Have continuous delivery experience on large projects
• Ability to lead large improvement initiatives and projects.
• Demonstrate strategic and tactical capability to have an impact on challenging teams balancing short-term results with a sustained push towards turnaround of medium to long-term team performance.
• Proven ability to systematically analyse and apply technical problems to generate new ideas and innovative solutions.
• Focused attitude to work, with the ability to constantly meet deadlines while ensuring excellent attention to detail & high levels of accuracy.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, to include proven report writing & presentation skills.
• First class organisational skills and a willingness to apply direct effort to delve into detail.
• Team player willing to work across functional and non-functional teams and help teams to achieve goals.
• Confident self-starter who is assertive and focused.
• Outstanding relationship builder with sound emotional intelligence and ability to work closely with non-financial management.
• Unquestionable ethics and integrity.
• “Can-do” approach and thirst for driving continuous improvement.
• Drive and determination to deliver outstanding results.
• Be in possession or be able to pass a strict airport security vetting procedure which includes a 5-year background check.
• Eligible to live and work in the EU.
• Hold a current unrestricted worldwide passport.

Closing Date: 16th July 2025

At Aer Lingus, we embrace diversity and believe in providing equal opportunities to all qualified individuals. We are dedicated to cultivating an inclusive and respectful work environment that values employees' unique backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We do not discriminate based on race, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, or any other protected status. If you have any questions or require any accommodations to support you in your application, please contact us at recruit@aerlingus.com.

Division / Department

Digital & Information - Service Delivery & Cloud Infrastructure

Contract type

employee recruitment - permanent

Job location

Job location

Republic of Ireland, Dublin, Dublin