Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

St Vincent's Care Services; City of Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Salary packaging (not-for-profit)

Private health insurance

Employee assistance program

Fitness Passport

Job summary

St Vincent's Care Services in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement and maintain secure, scalable cloud solutions that support the organisation's goals. This hands-on role focuses on modernising, migrating and optimising applications to Azure while supporting multi-cloud environments.

You will manage Azure tenancy security, cost optimisation and governance, working in a hybrid setup with Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane offices.

Qualifications

• 5+ years hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation (Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates).
• Experience with AKS, container platforms and Azure services.
• Excellent communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and operate secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Improve maturity of Azure platform services and DevOps practices.
• Own Infrastructure as Code patterns, deployment pipelines and platform hardening.
• Support cloud migrations, platform modernization and new service delivery.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.

Skills

Azure

Infrastructure as Code

Terraform

Azure DevOps

GitHub

AKS

Container Apps

Communication

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Bicep

ARM templates

Job description

St Vincent's Care Services – Melbourne VIC

Permanent

Hybrid

22h ago , from St Vincent's Care Services

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

Reporting directly to the Cloud Operations Manager, the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions that support the organisation's strategic goals and business operations.

You will be pivotal in shaping our cloud strategy, optimising cloud performance and will drive the modernisation, migration, and optimisation of applications and services to Azure, while also supporting multi-cloud environments as required. A key responsibility is the management and governance of St Vincent's Azure tenancy, ensuring security, compliance, cost optimisation, and operational efficiency across the platform.

Stand Out Points

• Hybrid working arrangement - office based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane
  
• Not-for-Profit salary packaging - earn more for doing the job you love
  

Better and fairer care. Always.

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

Reporting directly to the Cloud Operations Manager, the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions that support the organisation's strategic goals and business operations.

You will be pivotal in shaping our cloud strategy, optimising cloud performance and will drive the modernisation, migration, and optimisation of applications and services to Azure, while also supporting multi-cloud environments as required. A key responsibility is the management and governance of St Vincent's Azure tenancy, ensuring security, compliance, cost optimisation, and operational efficiency across the platform.

Stand Out Points

• Full-time permanent position
  
• Hybrid working arrangement - office based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane
  
• Not-for-Profit salary packaging - earn more for doing the job you love
  

About the role

• We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to deliver, operate and continuously improve our Azure cloud platform supporting Tier 0 clinical and enterprise systems.
• This is a hands-on senior technical role for an engineer who enjoys ownership, problem-solving and working at scale in a regulated, mission-critical environment.

The role

• Deliver and operate secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure
• Improve the maturity of Azure platform services, DevOps practices and operational processes
• Own and uplift Infrastructure as Code patterns, deployment pipelines and platform hardening
• Support high availability, backup and disaster recovery for critical systems
• Act as a senior technical escalation point during incidents and outages
• Implement security controls aligned with best practices
• Partner with cybersecurity, data, networking and application teams to collaborate with for common goals
• Support cloud migrations, platform modernisation and new service delivery
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
• Support organisation-wide digital and virtual-care transformation goals

About you

• 5+ years' hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation, particularly Terraform - plus experience with Bicep, ARM templates, Azure DevOps and/or GitHub
• Experience leveraging Platform Engineering patterns and AI-assisted development (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery and operational efficiency
• Experience with AKS, Azure Container Apps, Function Apps or containerised application platforms
• Strong knowledge of backup, disaster recovery and resilience patterns
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills to be used with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Things that work for you:

• Ability to visibly see your impact on the business and its service
• Competitive salary packaging options
• Discounted private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families
• Access to the Fitness Passport (FP)

Why become part of St Vincent's Health Australia

Because you're like us, you believe in our vision that every person, whoever and wherever they are, is served with excellent and compassionate care, by a better and fairer health and aged care system. Better for all our people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest levels of care and quality of life for our patients and clients. And better support for the local communities we play an important role in and continue to support.

Reconciliation Action Plan

As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit http://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.