Azure Cloud Operations Lead – FinOps & SecOps

Latitude IT; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Latitude IT is seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to manage a large Azure environment with focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You will drive ITSM processes, security operations, and FinOps initiatives while collaborating with security teams and AI-enabled workloads.

The role emphasizes production-support in a hybrid enterprise, automation, and ongoing improvements to monitoring and runbooks.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Operations.
• Operational background supporting production cloud environments.
• Experience with ITSM / ITIL processes (incident, problem, change).
• Strong SecOps experience with Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, RBAC or security monitoring.
• FinOps experience in Azure cost management and rightsizing.
• Experience with cloud monitoring/observability tools (Azure Monitor).
• IaC experience with Terraform, Bicep or PowerShell.
• Hybrid/enterprise environments experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support a large-scale Microsoft Azure environment.
• Own day-to-day Cloud Operations including monitoring and incident response.
• Work within ITSM processes (incident/problem/change).
• Improve cloud monitoring, observability and alerting.
• Collaborate with security teams to strengthen cloud security ops.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation initiatives and FinOps.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Cloud Operations

FinOps

SecOps

ITSM ITIL

Automation

IaC

Tools

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Entra ID / Azure AD

Job description

Latitude IT is seeking a hands-on Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to manage a large Azure environment with focus on reliability, security, and cost efficiency. You will drive ITSM processes, security operations, and FinOps initiatives while collaborating with security teams and AI-enabled workloads.

The role emphasizes production-support in a hybrid enterprise, automation, and ongoing improvements to monitoring and runbooks.