Senior Azure Cloud & DevOps Architect | Lead Infra & IaC

Lab3 Pty Ltd; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote/hybrid workplace

Flexible work arrangements

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Lab3 Pty Ltd is seeking a Principal Engineer-Cloud & DevOps to lead Azure platform delivery across engagements. You will design secure, scalable Azure solutions, implement IaC with Terraform, and manage AKS deployments with Helm. The role emphasizes mentoring, architecture guidance and collaboration with delivery leaders.

Based anywhere in Australia (Canberra preferred), with NV1 clearance and a flexible hybrid/remote work model. Permanent position preferred; contractors also considered.

Qualifications

• NV1 AGSVA security clearance required.
• Hands-on Azure IaaS and PaaS with a DevOps mindset.
• Experience with Terraform, ARM Templates and Bicep.
• CI/CD pipelines and source control experience.

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, with CI/CD pipelines.
• Provision and manage AKS environments, including deployments and Helm charts.
• Act as trusted technical advisor across multiple engagements.
• Translate complex concepts into recommendations for stakeholders and executives.
• 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 and capability uplift.

Skills

Azure IaaS & PaaS expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Pipelines & CI/CD

Cloud automation

Azure networking & security

Leadership & mentoring

Azure Functions & Key Vault

Azure AD & governance

Tools

Terraform

ARM Templates

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub / GitHub Actions

Bitbucket

Jenkins

Vault

Job description

Lab3 Pty Ltd is seeking a Principal Engineer-Cloud & DevOps to lead Azure platform delivery across engagements. You will design secure, scalable Azure solutions, implement IaC with Terraform, and manage AKS deployments with Helm. The role emphasizes mentoring, architecture guidance and collaboration with delivery leaders.

Based anywhere in Australia (Canberra preferred), with NV1 clearance and a flexible hybrid/remote work model. Permanent position preferred; contractors also considered.