Azure Senior Cloud Engineer - Hybrid Canberra Contract

Harrison McMillan Pty Ltd; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Harrison McMillan Pty Ltd seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to support and enhance enterprise Microsoft Azure platforms, DevSecOps pipelines and cloud operations. The role is a long-term contract through to 30 June 2027 with 3x12-month extension options, based in Canberra with hybrid work requiring on-site two days per week.

A Baseline clearance is required. You will design, implement and maintain Azure monitoring, CI/CD pipelines and secure integrations while mentoring teams and ensuring reliable

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing and supporting Microsoft Azure services.
• Experience building and maintaining YAML-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong experience with Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Log Analytics and KQL.
• Experience deploying infrastructure using Bicep, Terraform or similar IaC tools.
• Experience with Azure Key Vault and automated certificate and secret management.
• Experience with Azure API Management, Azure Front Door, WAF and Azure Service Bus.
• Experience with performance baselining and load testing.
• Experience with AI-assisted operations and engineering tooling.
• Experience with Octopus Deploy, .NET 8+, and Microsoft Dynamics 365.
• Experience working within SAFe or other agile delivery environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain Azure monitoring, alerting and dashboard solutions.
• Build and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and Octopus Deploy.
• Improve release reliability, deployment automation and rollback capabilities.
• Manage SSL certificates, client secrets and application registrations.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure and platform configuration as code.
• Support Azure services, performance optimisation and cost management.
• Implement secure integrations using Azure API Management, Front Door, WAF and Service Bus.
• Support incident resolution, post-incident reviews and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical guidance, mentoring and documentation.
• Demonstrated experience designing, implementing and supporting Microsoft Azure services.

Skills

Azure

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Azure Monitor

SAFe/Agile

Security/Compliance

Tools

GitHub Actions

Octopus Deploy

KQL

Terraform

Bicep

Azure API Management

Job description

Harrison McMillan Pty Ltd seeks a Senior Cloud Engineer to support and enhance enterprise Microsoft Azure platforms, DevSecOps pipelines and cloud operations. The role is a long-term contract through to 30 June 2027 with 3x12-month extension options, based in Canberra with hybrid work requiring on-site two days per week.

A Baseline clearance is required. You will design, implement and maintain Azure monitoring, CI/CD pipelines and secure integrations while mentoring teams and ensuring reliable