Sr Azure Cloud Engineers (EL1)

The Cloud Engineer role will be responsible for the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the branch’s cloud environment, ensuring that systems and networks operate securely, reliably, effectively and efficiently.

About the Client

A public sector client focused on competition, regulation, and consumer protection. The organization provides a collaborative and inclusive work environment, opportunities for professional growth, and the chance to contribute to high-impact national outcomes through policy development, enforcement, and advocacy.

Contract Details

Estimated start date: Monday, 22 June 2026

Initial contract duration: 12 months

Number of extensions: 2

Experience level:  Senior - EL1 equivalent

Location of work: QLD, WA, ACT, VIC, NSW, NT, SA, TAS

Working arrangements:  Hybrid. The client has a requirement to attend the office for 2 days per week

Security clearance: Must be an Australian Citizen able to obtain Baseline

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Cloud infrastructure: Design deploy and maintain cloud infrastructure to support the technology solution, ensuring scalability, reliability, and availability. Utilise Azure services and DevOps to deploy changes to production, following best practices for application deployment and configuration.
• Ongoing maintenance: Monitor and maintain system uptime by implementing high-availability configurations and responding promptly to incidents. Working with developers to integrate additional telemetry where needed.
• Drive improvements and automation: Identify opportunities for infrastructure improvement and the development of initiatives that enhance efficiency, reliability, and performance or reduce cost. Implement automation scripts and tools to streamline repetitive tasks.
• Working documentation: Author, contribute to, and share current-state documentation with relevant teams and stakeholders, including configuration details, and operational procedures.
• Troubleshooting: Production support through troubleshooting and resolving issues as required, including setting up monitoring and alerting systems, incident response, and performing root cause analysis.
• Quality assurance: Ensure the overall quality of technical deliverables, establishing and implementing quality assurance processes and standards. Ensure appropriate change management processes and procedures are applied to minimise risks to ongoing operations and meeting organisational objectives.

Essential criteria

Please prepare a statement of claims (less than 300 words) addressing the selection criteria. When preparing your statement of claims, please take into consideration the role and duties, and detail instances from your past that demonstrate how you meet the selection criteria.

• Minimum 5 years’ experience cloud infrastructure and administration experience supporting critical environments
• Tertiary qualification in Computer Science, Software Development or similar
• Experience with automated deployment pipelines and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) deployment
• Deep understanding of cloud networking concepts, VPCs, subnetting, VPNs, and similar technologies