Azure Cloud Engineering Lead: Platform Transformation

Zone IT Solutions Pty Ltd; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Zone IT Solutions Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineering Lead / SME to drive cloud platform engineering, automation, DevSecOps, security, and modernization across an enterprise IT landscape.

You will guide the design, build, and operation of Azure IaaS/PaaS workloads with Terraform and CI/CD practices, while aligning with architecture, security, resilience, and performance standards. This role requires hands-on leadership and strategic governance experience.

Qualifications

• 8–10+ years of experience in medium to large IT environments, ideally as a Cloud SME/Lead Engineer/Cloud Architect.
• Minimum 4 years hands-on Azure Public Cloud experience across IaaS and PaaS, including compute, storage, databases, and networking.
• Strong experience with Terraform OSS, IaC, Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines, and DevSecOps.
• Scripting and automation skills in Python, PowerShell, or Bash.
• Knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Azure Backup, Azure Monitor, disaster recovery, and recovery planning.
• Experience with Azure Policy, policy-as-code, cloud security, governance, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Develop cloud engineering standards, DevOps policies, reusable IaC modules, and engineering patterns.
• Design, deploy, and manage Azure IaaS/PaaS workloads using Terraform and DevOps practices.
• Prepare and review technical design documents, ensuring alignment with architecture, security, resilience, performance, and operational standards.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, monitoring, and observability solutions.
• Manage Azure Backup, disaster recovery, Azure Monitor, and IaaS workload reliability.
• Drive cloud security, governance, compliance, Azure Policy, policy-as-code, IAM, Entra ID, and Conditional Access.
• Conduct technical spikes and testing for security, performance, and reliability.
• Collaborate with architects, engineering teams, project managers, and business stakeholders to deliver cloud transformation initiatives.
• Provide technical leadership and promote cloud engineering best practices, reusable solutions, and platform supportability.

Skills

Azure Cloud

DevSecOps

Leadership

IaC

Tools

Terraform OSS

Azure DevOps

GitHub Enterprise

Scripting (Python/PowerShell)

Job description

Zone IT Solutions Pty Ltd in Melbourne is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineering Lead / SME to drive cloud platform engineering, automation, DevSecOps, security, and modernization across an enterprise IT landscape.

You will guide the design, build, and operation of Azure IaaS/PaaS workloads with Terraform and CI/CD practices, while aligning with architecture, security, resilience, and performance standards. This role requires hands-on leadership and strategic governance experience.