Azure Cloud Operations Engineer — Hands-On & Remote

The Recruitment Company Pty Ltd; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Office in Macquarie Park

Remote work three days a week

Performance bonus

Job summary

The Recruitment Company Pty Ltd is seeking a hands‑on Cloud Operations Engineer to join its Digital & Technology team in Australia. This Azure‑focused role emphasizes staying close to the tech, solving operational problems and owning a cloud environment.

You'll work with an experienced Cloud Operations Manager and collaborate with specialists across Cloud, Database Services, Integration, Security and project delivery, while keeping Azure infrastructure secure, observable and cost‑effective.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience supporting Microsoft Azure in production.
• Broad knowledge of cloud infrastructure, networking, identity, security and operational support.
• Experience with PowerShell, Ansible and/or Infrastructure as Code.
• Exposure to monitoring, observability, SRE or DevOps practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, incident management and root‑cause‑analysis capability.
• Good communication skills, initiative and the ability to work independently in a small team.
• Exposure to FinOps, Defender for Cloud, AIOps, AI-assisted operations or ITIL would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support Azure infrastructure across networking, identity, compute, storage, backup, monitoring and security.
• Troubleshoot incidents, connectivity, cloud networking and security issues, including root‑cause analysis and remediation.
• Build and improve automation using PowerShell, Ansible/AWX, Git, Azure DevOps and Infrastructure as Code.
• Improve monitoring and observability through Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, alerts, dashboards and workbooks.
• Support SRE‑style operational improvement, cloud security, vulnerability remediation and workload readiness.
• Contribute to FinOps and cloud cost optimisation, reviewing consumption and identifying efficiency opportunities.
• Explore practical uses of AI and AIOps to improve operational analysis, alerting, documentation and automation.

Skills

Azure cloud ops

Troubleshooting

Automation mindset

DevOps practices

Incident management

Communication

Tools

PowerShell

Ansible/AWX

Git

Azure DevOps

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

The Recruitment Company Pty Ltd is seeking a hands‑on Cloud Operations Engineer to join its Digital & Technology team in Australia. This Azure‑focused role emphasizes staying close to the tech, solving operational problems and owning a cloud environment.

You'll work with an experienced Cloud Operations Manager and collaborate with specialists across Cloud, Database Services, Integration, Security and project delivery, while keeping Azure infrastructure secure, observable and cost‑effective.