Remote Azure Cloud & DevOps Principal Engineer (NV1)

Lab3; Canberra; Remote; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid work environment

Career development and learning

Job summary

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Engineer- Cloud & DevOps with NV1 clearance to lead Azure-based solutions across Australia. You will design secure, scalable architectures, implement IaC with Terraform, manage AKS environments and drive CI/CD pipelines.

The role includes mentorship, architecture guidance and collaboration with delivery leaders on planning and risk management. Ideal candidates are proactive and detail‑oriented, based in Australia (Canberra preferred) and able to operate in a

Qualifications

• NV1 AGSVA security clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end delivery of Azure platform and automation initiatives.
• Design, document and implement secure, scalable Azure solutions.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and robust CI/CD pipelines.
• Provision and manage AKS environments and Helm charts.
• Act as trusted technical advisor, providing architecture guidance across engagements.
• Translate complex concepts into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Produce engineering artefacts including designs, runbooks, governance docs and change records.
• Partner with delivery leaders on estimation, planning and risk management.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to hiring activities to uplift engineering capability across the team.

Skills

Azure Cloud & DevOps

Leadership

Security governance

Architecture design

Mentoring

Tools

Terraform

ARM Templates

Bicep

AKS

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Vault

Entra ID

RBAC

Python

PowerShell

Logic Apps

API Management

PostgreSQL

Job description

LAB3 is seeking a Principal Engineer- Cloud & DevOps with NV1 clearance to lead Azure-based solutions across Australia. You will design secure, scalable architectures, implement IaC with Terraform, manage AKS environments and drive CI/CD pipelines.

The role includes mentorship, architecture guidance and collaboration with delivery leaders on planning and risk management. Ideal candidates are proactive and detail‑oriented, based in Australia (Canberra preferred) and able to operate in a