Cloud Engineer, VP

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Who we are

Sumitomo Mitsui Finance Dublin Limited (SMFD) is a wholly owned subsidiary of SMBC and is growing rapidly as a Centre of Excellence for the bank’s universal banking business across EMEA. It provides a range of technology and operational support services, aligned to SMBC’s growth, innovation, and transformation strategies

Role Summary

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Architecture & Engineering function at a pivotal stage in SMBC EMEA's technology transformation journey.

The Cloud Engineering Team is responsible for designing, building, and operating a secure, resilient, and compliant Azure cloud platform to support SMBC’s EMEA technology strategy within a regulated banking environment. The team plays a central role in enabling cloud adoption, platform modernisation, automation, and engineering best practices, while delivering scalable, reliable, and secure technology capabilities that support strategic business and technology objectives across the region.

This hands-on role will help shape the best-in-class cloud foundation that enables both cloud-native development and the migration and modernisation of existing applications, while adhering to regulatory expectations, internal risk frameworks, and enterprise governance standards.

The role will ensure that security, control, and operational resilience are embedded by design through an “everything-as-code” approach, delivering a platform that meets the highest standards of auditability, reliability, and regulatory compliance.

The anticipated salary range for this role is €72,000 - €134,000, with the final offer determined based on the candidate’s skills, experience, role scope, location, and relevant market factors. In addition to base salary, the role may be eligible for a discretionary incentive award and a competitive benefits package, including core benefits such as pension provision.

Background and Organizational Context

The EMEA Architecture & Engineering domain provides the core technology foundations and architectural oversight that enable the wider organization to adopt to operate effectively and achieve its strategic objectives. By defining standards, governing solution design, and promoting best practices, the department ensures a consistent, scalable, and resilient technology landscape. It works closely with regional and global stakeholders to support the successful delivery of business outcomes, requiring strong cross-functional and cross-regional collaboration.

This role is well suited to individuals with a strong understanding of technology concepts, who can balance strategic awareness with practical technical delivery, and who are comfortable working across teams to influence and enable successful technology outcomes. It will appeal to those focused on delivering technology-driven initiatives who can collaborate effectively across functions and regions, including engineering solutions that can reduce the barrier to entry to cloud platforms.

Scale and Scope

Regional responsibility for the EMEA cloud platform, supporting banking operations and regulated workloads across multiple jurisdictions

Ownership of the Azure cloud platform underpinning critical business services and customer-facing applications

Supports both:

Cloud-native platforms and digital innovation initiatives

Migration and modernisation of legacy and on-premises banking systems

Accountability for central cloud services including identity, access control, network security, shared hosting platforms, observability, and resilience

Operating within a regulated environment aligned to regulatory requirements, operational resilience frameworks, and internal risk policies

Working closely with Architecture, Infrastructure, Data, Information Security, Risk, Compliance, and Audit functions

Acting as a senior technical contributor with hands-on engineering responsibility while influencing broader platform strategy

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, particularly in building enterprise-scale, regulated environments

Strong understanding of Azure landing zones, management groups, policy frameworks, and governance models

Experience with cloud platform engineering technologies, especially Kubernetes, OpenShift and the broader K8S ecosystem

Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP) advantageous

Proven experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools with Terraform of particular interest

Experience implementing fully automated, auditable deployment pipelines in regulated environments

Strong knowledge of cloud security principles, including zero-trust, identity-first security models, and encryption

Experience operating within regulated environments (e.g. FCA or equivalent), including audits, controls, and compliance processes

Experience designing highly available, resilient cloud architectures supporting critical services

Knowledge of disaster recovery, backup strategies, and operational resilience frameworks

Experience integrating on-premises systems with cloud platforms, including networking and identity federation

Strong understanding of Azure networking and secure connectivity models (e.g. VPN, ExpressRoute)

Strong hands-on engineering background with a focus on building and running platforms

Commitment to automation, repeatability, and eliminating manual processes

Azure certifications beneficial

We recognise our role as a bank to support social change and welcome all applications, including those from groups often under-represented in financial services. We value the uniqueness of professional and personal, backgrounds and perspectives as they play a vital role in continuing the sustainable growth of our organisation. We’ll ensure reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process are offered due to a disability or long-term condition whenever requested.

We are committed to transparent and equitable pay practices. Compensation is determined using objective criteria, including skills, experience, and role responsibilities, and applied consistently throughout our recruitment processes. We do not request candidates' pay history and are committed to preventing unjustified pay disparities.