Principal Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect

Colonial Group; Australia; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Engineer- Cloud & DevOps to own Azure platform and automation outcomes from design to delivery. You will shape engineering standards, governance, and working practices while mentoring engineers and supporting hiring, all across Australia and NZ.

The role focuses on building secure, scalable Azure solutions, IaC using Terraform, AKS, and modern CI/CD pipelines, with a strong advisory capability to leaders and executives.

Qualifications

• Deep hands-on Azure IaaS & PaaS with a DevOps mindset.
• Terraform, ARM Templates, and Bicep for IaC delivery.
• Kubernetes (AKS) based deployments and Helm charts.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Azure platform and automation initiatives.
• Design, document and implement secure, scalable Azure solutions.

Skills

Azure IaaS & PaaS

Kubernetes (AKS)

CI/CD pipelines

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Terraform

ARM templates

Bicep

HashiCorp tooling

Azure Networking

Azure Security & Identity

Cloud automation (Python/Bash/PowerS)

Azure Functions & Key Vault

Azure Integration (Logic Apps)

Azure AD & Governance

PostgreSQL (Azure DB)

Tools

Terraform

ARM Templates

Bicep

GitHub

Azure DevOps

Jenkins

Bitbucket

Vault

Job description

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Engineer- Cloud & DevOps to own Azure platform and automation outcomes from design to delivery. You will shape engineering standards, governance, and working practices while mentoring engineers and supporting hiring, all across Australia and NZ.

The role focuses on building secure, scalable Azure solutions, IaC using Terraform, AKS, and modern CI/CD pipelines, with a strong advisory capability to leaders and executives.