Head of ICT Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure - Dublin
About the role:
An established Dublin-based financial and public sector agency is seeking a Head of ICT Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure to lead its Cloud, Infrastructure, and End-User Compute engineering functions. Reporting to the Head of ICT Operations, this senior leadership role drives the strategy, resilience, and operational performance across enterprise cloud platforms, data centre environments, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). You will combine technical governance and strategic planning with service delivery and vendor management across a complex portfolio of public assets.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Cloud & SaaS Leadership: Direct strategy and operations for enterprise cloud and SaaS platforms, overseeing cloud governance, identity integration, FinOps cost management, and cloud vendor relationships.
- Infrastructure & Data Centres: Lead the virtualised on-premises estate and managed data centres, driving platform currency, technical debt reduction, disaster recovery readiness, and vulnerability remediation.
- VDI & End-User Computing: Own the service strategy and operational delivery for the enterprise virtual desktop platform, ensuring optimal user experience, application packaging, image lifecycle management, and evaluation of modern EUC technologies.
- People Leadership & Strategy: Coach and develop three specialist technical teams, establishing engineering standards, succession depth, and cross-team knowledge sharing to minimize key-person risk.
- Supplier & Stakeholder Management: Oversee key hardware, software, and cloud service providers through commercial oversight and SLA tracking while acting as a trusted technical adviser to executive leadership.
What you'll bring:
- Senior Hybrid Leadership: Background leading cloud, data centre, and EUC/VDI environments within regulated, public sector, or enterprise-scale settings.
- Modernisation Track Record: Hands-on experience delivering large-scale cloud migrations, infrastructure modernisations, or desktop transformations.
- Core Governance & Control: Strong grasp of operational resilience, cyber security standards, identity governance, and FinOps practices.
- Strategic Vision: Ability to translate complex operational needs into clear, actionable technology roadmaps.
- Executive Communication: Skilled at bridging the gap between technical engineering teams and non-technical business leaders.
- Decisive & Collaborative: Calm under pressure, balancing continuous system uptime with ambitious project delivery.
Qualifications:
- Third-level qualification in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Certifications across Public Cloud, Virtualisation, VDI, or IT Governance/Architecture are advantageous.
