Platform Owner - Public Cloud

What You’ll Ge t   People are at the heart of what we do here, so it’s essential we provide you with the right environment to perform at your very best. Let’s talk lifestyle: Healthcare, pension, and potential bonus. 27 days of leave, plus bank holidays and if you want, you can buy 5 more. Because Primark is all about tailoring to you, we offer Tax Saver Tickets, fitness centre, and a subsidised cafeteria.   What You’ll Do as a Platform Owner – Public Cloud We want you to feel challenged and inspired. Here, you’ll develop your skills across a range of responsibilities: • Lead the Cloud Engineering & Operations function in partnership with Primark’s technology partners, delivering new platform capabilities and self‑service cloud services that enable product teams to deliver value at speed • Establish and oversee governance frameworks covering financial management, security operations, deployment best practices, and policy compliance. • Define and enforce quality standards, service‑transition rigour, and security compliance to enhance operational performance across metrics such as availability, workload utilisation, and SLA adherence. • Serve as a senior technical leader, setting technical direction, resolving escalations, and clearly communicating complex technical matters to senior stakeholders. • Manage key stakeholder expectations while ensuring the timely and high‑quality delivery of team priorities and cloud platform roadmaps. • Coach, mentor, and line‑manage cloud engineering talent (internal and partner teams), while fostering accountability, continuous improvement, and alignment with Primark’s engineering strategy. What You’ll Bring Here at Primark, we want everyone to feel valued so please bring your authentic self to work, of course with some other key experience and abilities for this role in particular: • Proven leadership experience (8+ years) in Cloud and/or SRE functions, with deep expertise in Microsoft Azure, cloud service models (PaaS, Serverless, Containers), and Infrastructure‑as‑Code governance. • Strong technical capability in designing and delivering scalable, fault‑tolerant, secure cloud systems, supported by observability, logging, and monitoring best practices. • Solid understanding of security operational frameworks, financial management (budgeting, forecasting), and enterprise‑grade operational processes. • Hands‑on experience with Terraform (desirable) and exposure to additional cloud platforms such as Google Cloud Platform. • Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and collaborate with diverse engineering teams—including third‑party partners while advocating for DevOps, Agile, Lean, CI/CD, and modern engineering practices. • Highly organised, strategic, and visionary technologist who can identify emerging technologies, translate them into business value, and bring teams along through strong interpersonal, analytical, and problem‑solving skills. Does this sound like you? Great, because we can’t wait to see what you’ll bring. You’ll be supported within a team of equally capable people, celebrating who you are and aiding you reach your potential. At Primark, we’re excited about our future - and we’re excited to develop yours. About Primark   At Primark, people matter. They’re the beating heart of our business and the reason we’ve grown from our first store in Dublin in 1969 to a £9bn+ turnover business and over 80,000 colleagues and over 440 stores in 17 countries today. Our values run through everything we do. In essence, we're Caring and always strive to put people first. We're also Dynamic, bravely pushing the boundaries to stay ahead. And finally, we succeed Together.   If you need any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request, during your recruitment journey, such as exte