Cloud Operations Engineer - Azure, AWS & Automation

Leidos LLC; Canberra; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and wellbeing programs

Income protection

Paid leave

Retirement benefits

Job summary

Leidos Australia is seeking a Cloud Operations Administrator within the Geo Spaces Team. You will maintain and optimse secure cloud environments that support critical government missions, working with engineering, cyber security and customer stakeholders to ensure reliability and resilience.

Role focuses on administering Azure, AWS and hybrid clouds, driving automation, and implementing IaC and CI/CD practices to improve performance and security across client platforms in a mission-critical

Qualifications

• Experience administering Azure, AWS or comparable cloud platforms in production.
• Experience working with cloud networking, compute, storage and identity services.
• Experience monitoring cloud environments, incident response and resolving complex issues.
• Capability in scripting and automation using PowerShell, Python or Bash.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code solutions including Terraform, ARM or CloudFormation.
• Familiarity with DevOps practices, CI/CD pipelines and modern cloud operating models.
• Ability to work effectively with technical teams, cyber security specialists and customer stakeholders in secure environments.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support secure Azure, AWS and hybrid cloud environments, ensuring availability, performance, security and operational stability across customer platforms.
• Manage incidents, problems and changes in complex production environments, applying a proactive approach to monitoring, troubleshooting and continuous improvement.
• Drive operational efficiency through automation, leveraging scripting, Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD practices to improve consistency, reliability and scalability.
• Partner with technical teams and customers to deliver secure, compliant and resilient cloud services, supporting patching, remediation and governance activities across the cloud estate.

Skills

Azure & AWS

Cloud networking

Incident response

Scripting automation

Terraform

DevOps CI/CD

Security awareness

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Terraform

ARM templates

CloudFormation

Job description

Leidos Australia is seeking a Cloud Operations Administrator within the Geo Spaces Team. You will maintain and optimse secure cloud environments that support critical government missions, working with engineering, cyber security and customer stakeholders to ensure reliability and resilience.

Role focuses on administering Azure, AWS and hybrid clouds, driving automation, and implementing IaC and CI/CD practices to improve performance and security across client platforms in a mission-critical