Azure Cloud Engineer - Hybrid Infra & Security

Talenza

Sydney

Hybrid

AUD 133,000 - 147,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

NSW Government in Sydney CBD is looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to design, deploy, and support secure hybrid cloud infrastructure across Azure and Microsoft 365. You will lead cloud migration initiatives, optimise workloads, and implement security controls for compliant, scalable solutions.

The role requires hands-on Azure expertise, IaC skills, and strong collaboration with architects, developers and security teams.

Qualifications

Extensive experience designing, deploying and supporting Azure cloud infrastructure, including both IaaS and PaaS services.
Strong hands-on experience with Azure technologies such as Virtual Machines, App Services, Azure SQL, Storage Accounts, Networking, Key Vault, Application Gateway and Azure Monitoring.
Experience with Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, automation and scripting using PowerShell, Bicep or ARM templates.
Strong knowledge of cloud security, identity and access management, including Entra ID, Conditional Access, MFA, RBAC, Privileged Identity Management and hybrid identity solutions.
Experience supporting Microsoft 365 services including Exchange Online, SharePoint Online, Teams, OneDrive and Intune.
Experience with security monitoring platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Log Analytics and Kusto Query Language (KQL).
Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills with the ability to provide technical leadership and guidance.
Relevant cloud certifications and/or tertiary qualifications in Information Technology are highly regarded.

Responsibilities

Design, implement and support secure hybrid cloud infrastructure, primarily across the Microsoft Azure ecosystem.
Lead and participate in cloud migration and transformation initiatives, including workload optimisation, application modernisation and infrastructure improvements.
Administer and support Azure services, Microsoft 365 platforms and identity and access management solutions.
Implement security controls, monitor cloud environments and ensure compliance with cloud security best practices.
Develop automation solutions using Infrastructure as Code (IaC), PowerShell and cloud-native technologies.
Collaborate with architects, developers, security teams and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable and secure cloud solutions.
Provide technical support and troubleshooting for complex cloud infrastructure and application issues.
Maintain technical documentation, operational procedures and cloud governance standards.