Associate Cloud Engineer - AWS/Azure + DevOps

.au Domain Administration Ltd; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging

Flexible working arrangements

Ongoing professional development

Inclusive, collaborative culture

Job summary

au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) is hiring an Associate Cloud Engineer to join the IT team in Melbourne. You will help support, maintain and improve cloud environments across AWS and Azure while developing automation and DevOps practices for critical internet infrastructure.

Reporting to the Manager, IT Operations, you will assist with cloud operations, infrastructure automation, deployments, monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives, with a focus on security and documentation.

Qualifications

• Associate or bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, System Administration, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 2–3 years' experience in cloud engineering, infrastructure operations, or related role.
• Practical exposure to AWS services like EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Lambda, CloudWatch.
• Linux and Windows Server admin skills including patching, scripting and ops support.
• Familiarity with IaC and automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible and Packer.
• DevOps practices and version control with pipelines (GitLab, GitHub, Azure DevOps).
• Experience with Docker and logging/monitoring solutions.
• Cloud certification preferred (e.g., AWS Solutions Architect Associate, AZ-104).
• Pre-employment vetting: National Police Check, Right to Work, Bankruptcy, AusCheck.

Responsibilities

• Support the implementation, maintenance and operation of AWS and Azure infrastructure.
• Ensure reliable operation of cloud services including compute, storage, networking, identity, monitoring and logging.
• Perform Linux and Windows Server administration, patching and configuration updates.
• Monitor cloud environments, respond to alerts and escalate complex issues.
• Build, update and deploy AMIs using Packer and CI/CD pipelines.
• Maintain and improve Infrastructure as Code with Terraform and Ansible.
• Automate repetitive tasks with scripting and approved automation practices.
• Identify opportunities to streamline manual or repetitive processes.
• Contribute to runbooks, SOPs and technical documentation.
• Follow security, access management, patching and config practices across clouds.

Skills

Problem solving

Team collaboration

Scripting (bash/PowerShell)

Continuous learning

Cloud mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / IT

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Packer

Docker

GitLab

Azure DevOps

AWS IAM / EC2

Job description

au Domain Administration Ltd (auDA) is hiring an Associate Cloud Engineer to join the IT team in Melbourne. You will help support, maintain and improve cloud environments across AWS and Azure while developing automation and DevOps practices for critical internet infrastructure.

Reporting to the Manager, IT Operations, you will assist with cloud operations, infrastructure automation, deployments, monitoring and continuous improvement initiatives, with a focus on security and documentation.