Senior Azure Cloud & Automation Engineer (NV1)

Exclaim IT; Canberra; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Exclaim IT is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud and Automation Engineer to design, implement, automate and support secure, reliable Azure cloud infrastructure within a complex government environment. The candidate must hold an active NV1 security clearance prior to commencement.

The role emphasizes IaC practices, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration across technical teams to deliver secure cloud-native and hybrid solutions. Expect on-call support and ongoing infrastructure improvements.

Qualifications

• NV1 clearance required prior to start.
• Extensive Azure and cloud automation experience.
• Experience with IaC and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services using IaC practices.
• Develop and maintain automation solutions using Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, PowerShell, Azure CLI and Azure DevOps.
• Design, implement and support CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure provisioning, testing, deployment and lifecycle management.
• Collaborate with technical teams to deliver secure cloud-native and hybrid infrastructure solutions.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex Azure infrastructure, platform and automation issues.
• Monitor and optimise cloud resources to improve performance, availability, scalability, security and cost efficiency.
• Support cloud governance, identity management, security compliance, monitoring, backup, disaster recovery and resilience.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, solution designs, operational procedures and automation standards.
• Participate in incident response, problem management, service restoration and on-call support activities as required.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvements across cloud and on-premises environments.

Skills

Azure architecture

CI/CD design

Hybrid cloud

Stakeholder management

Tools

Terraform

Azure Bicep

ARM templates

PowerShell

Azure CLI

Azure DevOps

Job description

Exclaim IT is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud and Automation Engineer to design, implement, automate and support secure, reliable Azure cloud infrastructure within a complex government environment. The candidate must hold an active NV1 security clearance prior to commencement.

The role emphasizes IaC practices, automation, CI/CD pipelines, and collaboration across technical teams to deliver secure cloud-native and hybrid solutions. Expect on-call support and ongoing infrastructure improvements.