People

The team

Senior practitioners; no offshore second-tier delivery. The people you meet at the start of an engagement are the people who do the work.

Ciarán Doyle

Founder & Principal Architect

Ciarán founded Ora Cloud Services in 2019 after eight years running infrastructure and platform engineering at Irish and UK technology companies. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional, Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect.

Focus: Cloud architecture, AWS, Migration strategy, Financial services

Aoife Murphy

Head of Managed Services

Aoife leads the managed cloud practice. Ten years of infrastructure operations experience across co-location, hybrid, and cloud environments, with the last five years focused exclusively on managed cloud. ITIL 4, AWS Certified DevOps Engineer.

Focus: Managed operations, SRE, FinOps, SLA design

Tom Gallagher

Lead Platform Engineer

Tom leads DevOps and platform engineering engagements. Seven years building CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes platforms for enterprise clients. CKA, Terraform Associate. Background in software engineering before moving to platform work.

Focus: Kubernetes, CI/CD, Infrastructure as code, DevOps transformation

Niamh Walsh

Cloud Security Lead

Niamh leads the cloud security and compliance practice. CISA, AWS Security Specialty, Microsoft Azure Security Engineer. Prior experience in Big-4 advisory and in-house CISO roles, with a focus on regulated-industry compliance.

Focus: Cloud security posture, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR, PCI DSS

Rajan Nair

Senior Cloud Architect

Rajan specialises in multi-cloud design and cloud-native application architecture. Eight years across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Google Cloud Professional Data Engineer, AWS Certified Solutions Architect.

Focus: Multi-cloud design, GCP, Azure, Data platform architecture

Working with us

We grow when the work demands it, and only then. New engineers shadow existing engagements for a minimum of eight weeks before taking independent client responsibility.

For roles see our careers page. We are always glad to hear from senior practitioners even when we are not actively recruiting.