Azure Cloud Engineering

ALOIS UK; Perth; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

ALOIS Australia in Melbourne seeks an experienced Cloud Engineer to lead Azure cloud initiatives in a contract role. The candidate will develop standards, deploy Terraform-based workloads, and ensure secure, scalable infrastructure with DevOps practices.

8-10+ years in large IT environments, strong Azure, IaC, and automation expertise are required. Collaboration with architects and delivery teams will be essential.

Qualifications

• 8-10+ years of experience in medium to large IT environments.
• 4 years working with Azure Public Cloud services designing and building cloud solutions using IaaS and PaaS.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure cloud platform for computing, storage, database management, and networking.

Responsibilities

• Develop standards, engineering patterns, and IaC modules.
• Set the standard approach project engineering teams will take in their infrastructure delivery work.
• Develop, deploy, and configure workloads to Microsoft Azure using Terraform in a DevOps environment.
• Develop solution, detailed and functional design documents, ensuring designs are prepared in accordance with standards and guidelines.
• Develop, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability tools for managed environments.
• Hands-on development to balance workload or address significant complexity through technical spike: build, test including non-functional areas like security, reliability, and performance.
• Review technical detail designs and ensure technical designs meet functional, resilience, security, reuse, and operational needs
• Collaborate with project/ BAU teams including architects, delivery squads, principal engineers, and project managers to meet the project technology and delivery objectives
• Design technology solutions to automate existing processes using DevOps.
• Contribute towards the Fund’s central knowledge repository for design models and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure alignment of cloud solutions to target architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with other technology teams, assisting with the demands of operations as required, and empowering teams to enable reliability, resilience, and supportability of platforms

Skills

Python

PowerShell

Bash

DevSecOps

Cloud security

IaC automation

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Azure Entra ID

GitHub Enterprise

CI/CD

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure DevOps

Policy-as-code

Job description

About Us

ALOIS Australia is a leading Talent and Technology Solutions company, focused on helping businesses across the country build stronger teams, smarter processes, and sustainable growth.

About Us

ALOIS Australia is a leading Talent and Technology Solutions company, focused on helping businesses across the country build stronger teams, smarter processes, and sustainable growth.

We work with organisations in diverse industries to deliver integrated workforce and technology solutions, from innovative hiring strategies to end-to-end digital transformation. Our approach combines data, insight, and human expertise to help clients solve complex workforce challenges with clarity and confidence.

Through our deep industry experience and commitment to excellence, we provide scalable, high-performance solutions that deliver measurable impact. Whether it’s onshore project delivery, workforce optimisation, or specialised technology services, ALOIS Australia ensures results that truly make a difference.

From Sydney to Perth and everywhere in between, we’re driven by one purpose: to empower Australian businesses and professionals to thrive in a rapidly changing world of work. At ALOIS Australia, every challenge is an opportunity to innovate, and every partnership is built on trust, transparency, and long-term success.

Job Title – Azure Cloud Engineering

Job Location – Melbourne

Employment Type – Contract

What Role You Will Play In Team

Key Technical Skills required: Mandatory (any 2 -3 combinatioins)

• Azure IaaS/PaaS
• Terraform & Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
• Azure Entra ID, IAM & Conditional Access
• Cloud Security, Governance & Compliance
• Disaster Recovery, Backup & Recovery
• Qualys Vulnerability Management
• GitHub Enterprise, CI/CD & DevSecOps

Desired Experience

• Cloud SME, Lead Engineer, or Cloud Architect in large enterprise environments
• Proven ability to independently lead cloud platform initiatives
• Strong stakeholder management and cross-functional collaboration
• Experience in cloud transformation, modernization, and security uplift programs

The JDs are below Cloud Engineering

• Develop standards, engineering patterns, DevOps policies and IaC modules.
• Set the standard approach project engineering teams will take in their infrastructure delivery work.
• Develop, deploy, and configure workloads to Microsoft Azure using Terraform in a DevOps environment.
• Develop solution, detailed and functional design documents, ensuring designs are prepared in accordance with standards and guidelines.
• Develop, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability tools for managed environments.
• Engage in hands‑on development to balance workload or address significant complexity through technical spike: build, test including non‑functional areas like security, reliability, and performance.
• Review technical detail designs and ensure technical designs meet functional, resilience, security, reuse, and operational needs
• Collaborate with project/ BAU teams including architects, delivery squads, principal engineers, and project managers to meet the project technology and delivery objectives
• Design technology solutions to automate existing processes using DevOps.
• Contribute towards the Fund’s central knowledge repository for design models and patterns.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure alignment of cloud solutions to target architecture, standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with other technology teams, assisting with the demands of operations as required, and empowering teams to enable reliability, resilience, and supportability of platforms

Essential

• 8-10+ years’ experience working in medium to large IT environments.
• 4 years working with Azure Public Cloud services designing and building cloud solutions using IaaS and PaaS services, with in depth understanding of cloud products and offerings.
• Cloud Service Proficiency: In-depth knowledge of Azure cloud platform. Understanding how to leverage different services for computing, storage, database management, and networking is crucial.
• Experience developing and adopting DevSecOps strategy and ways-of-working.
• Hands on deploying applications and building infrastructure in cloud via Azure DevOps CI/CD deployment pipelines.
• Experience in scripting and automation: Skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar.
• Hands on with Infrastructure-as-Code and experience provisioning resources using Terraform OSS.
• Knowledge of container frameworks, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Deep knowledge of running IaaS workloads and design/operation of Azure Backup and Azure Monitor for IaaS workloads.
• In-depth understanding of Azure policies and implementing them to enforce compliance, security, and governance using a policy-as-code deployment model.

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ALOIS Australia is committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. We provide equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants and do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected under applicable laws. We value diversity and believe it strengthens our people, our culture, and the outcomes we deliver.