Platform Owner - Public Cloud

About the Role

At Primark, we prioritize people and culture, creating an environment where you can thrive professionally and personally. Join us as a Platform Owner for Public Cloud to drive impactful technology solutions in a collaborative and inspiring workplace.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and expand Cloud Engineering and Operations teams, collaborating with key technology partners to deliver secure, self-service cloud platforms that enhance product delivery and customer outcomes.
• Develop and maintain strong cloud governance and standards to ensure best practices in cost control, security, deployment, compliance, and policy management.
• Enhance operational excellence by defining performance metrics related to availability, workload efficiency, SLA adherence, service transitions, and security posture.
• Provide technical leadership by setting cloud strategies and architectures, troubleshooting complex issues, and engaging senior stakeholders with clear communication.
• Build and nurture high-performing teams through leadership, mentoring, talent development, and fostering a culture of accountability and servant leadership.
• Champion cloud transformation efforts by aligning roadmaps and operating models with business goals, maintaining strong relationships with senior leaders and partners.

Qualifications and Experience

• Over 8 years of proven leadership in cloud engineering or Site Reliability Engineering, with extensive engineering experience managing enterprise-scale platforms and systems.
• Expertise in Microsoft Azure, capable of designing secure, scalable, and resilient architectures using PaaS, serverless technologies, containerization, and Infrastructure-as-Code (preferably Terraform). Familiarity with Google Cloud Platform is beneficial.
• Strong operational and financial skills including budget management, cloud cost optimization, workload efficiency, security operations, compliance, and policy enforcement.
• Advanced capabilities in DevOps methodologies, continuous integration and delivery, monitoring, logging, reliability engineering, and promoting Agile, Lean, and DevOps cultures.
• Innovative thinker with the ability to identify and apply emerging technologies, lead transformations, and inspire new workflows.
• Excellent leadership and interpersonal skills, capable of managing third-party vendors, mentoring engineering teams, and effectively handling stakeholder engagement, problem-solving, and multi-project delivery.

Additional Information

At Primark, our culture emphasizes care, dynamism, and collaboration. We offer healthcare benefits, pension schemes, potential bonuses, 27 days leave plus bank holidays with an option to purchase additional leave, tax saver tickets, subsidized fitness and cafeteria facilities, tailored to support your lifestyle and work-life balance.

We are committed to diversity and inclusion, encouraging you to be authentic and bringing your unique self to work. Reasonable adjustments during recruitment are available upon request. All employment offers are conditional on background checks including eligibility to work, references, education, and where applicable, criminal and financial checks.

About Primark

Founded in Dublin in 1969, Primark has grown to a £9bn+ turnover company with over 80,000 employees and 440+ stores in 17 countries. We are a people-centered business that values caring, innovation, and teamwork as the core to our success.