Principal Engineer - Cloud Self-Service Delivery (IDP/DevEx)

LAB3; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 166,000 - 277,000; Part time

Job summary

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Engineer – Cloud Self-Service Delivery in Sydney/Melbourne to lead IDP/DevEx infrastructure efforts. This contract role focuses on automating cloud onboarding and provisioning, linking DevOps, security, and identity capabilities for a regulated enterprise.

You will guide a hands-on engineering team, shaping scalable patterns and ensuring seamless self-service experiences across platforms. Hybrid on-site presence is required a few days per week.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience delivering automated cloud onboarding and self-service tech.
• Strong knowledge of Azure with multi-cloud experience (GCP/AWS) preferred.
• Experience in regulated environments and banking is beneficial.
• Hands-on leadership with ability to guide engineering and delivery teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical enablement and integration of cloud services across development, DevOps, security, identity and governance platforms.
• Design and improve automated, code-driven cloud onboarding and provisioning services.
• Connect multiple development toolsets and delivery pipelines to create a seamless self-service experience for cloud consumers.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and integration issues while maintaining a strategic view of the wider service ecosystem.
• Shape secure, scalable and reliable cloud-enablement patterns for a highly regulated environment.
• Partner with specialist cloud, security, identity and platform teams to align technical solutions and delivery outcomes.
• Provide Principal-level technical leadership while remaining hands-on with engineering, automation and systems integration.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence stakeholders across the organisation.

Skills

Azure

DevOps

Automation

Systems integration

Cloud security

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Jenkins

Bamboo

Job description

LAB3 is one of the largest Azure engineering practices in the Australasia region, with a focus on Cloud & DevOps, Data, IoT & AI, Modern Workplace, Modern Apps & Integration, Security, and Network services. We are looking for a Principal Engineer – Cloud Self-Service Delivery based in Sydney or Melbourne to work on IDP / DevEx infrastructure. This is a contract opportunity for 6 months at an attractive daily rate, supporting a major cloud service integration initiative, within a highly regulated enterprise. You will help connect cloud, DevOps, security, identity and governance systems to create a highly automated, self-service experience that reduces cloud onboarding and provisioning lead times.

The role

• Lead the technical enablement and integration of cloud services across development, DevOps, security, identity and governance platforms.
• Design and improve automated, code-driven cloud onboarding and provisioning services.
• Connect multiple development toolsets and delivery pipelines to create a seamless self-service experience for cloud consumers.
• Troubleshoot complex platform and integration issues while maintaining a strategic view of the wider service ecosystem.
• Shape secure, scalable and reliable cloud-enablement patterns for a highly regulated environment.
• Partner with specialist cloud, security, identity and platform teams to align technical solutions and delivery outcomes.
• Provide Principal-level technical leadership while remaining hands-on with engineering, automation and systems integration.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and influence stakeholders across the organisation.

The ideal candidate

We are looking for a senior, hands-on technologist who can think strategically about service activation and platform integration while taking ownership of complex technical outcomes. This is a hybrid role - you must be available for on-site work a few days each week.

Technical Skills And Experience

• Principal-level capability spanning cloud enablement, DevOps, automation and systems integration.
• A strong development and code-driven automation background.
• Experience delivering automated cloud resources & self-service technology to internal consumers.
• Strong knowledge of Azure, with additional GCP/AWS experience preferred
• Experience across interconnected DevOps and platform tooling, including technologies such as Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins and Bamboo.
• Experience with cloud deployment pipelines, identity-provider integration, cloud onboarding and provisioning.
• Exposure to internal developer platforms or similar service-enablement platforms.
• Experience in banking or another highly regulated environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to work effectively across specialist technical teams.

Desirable

• Fundamental knowledge across Azure, AWS and GCP, with specialist depth in one or more cloud platforms.
• Experience connecting multiple pipeline technologies to deliver internal consumer outcomes.
• Experience with Prefect or Python frameworks.
• Experience building or supporting an internal developer platform (IDP) /DevEx infrastructure is ideal

You do not need expertise across every technology or all three major cloud platforms. Depth in selected technologies, combined with sufficient breadth to understand and integrate the wider ecosystem, is more important.

What's in it for you?

• Be part of a team that uses modern technologies to solve real problems and deliver outstanding customer outcomes.
• Work with a Microsoft Partner of the Year award winner with multiple specialisations.
• Be supported by experienced peers and leaders who value technical expertise, encourage innovation and provide clear career pathways and ongoing learning.
• Enjoy a supportive workplace that promotes inclusion, flexibility and diversity, and celebrates differences.
• Take advantage of our remote and hybrid workplace, with flexibility to balance work and life.
• Thrive in a community with strong values: #BeTrue #TeamUp #StandOut #ThinkAhead #FearLessAchieveMore.