Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Devopsroles; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Not-for-Profit salary packaging

Discounted private health insurance

Employee Assistance Program

Fitness Passport access

Job summary

St Vincent's Health Australia is seeking a Senior Azure Cloud Engineer to design, implement and operate secure, scalable Azure infrastructure in a hybrid environment. You will drive cloud strategy, optimise performance and support migrations, with a focus on sensitivity to regulated, mission-critical healthcare systems.

This hands-on role requires ownership, strong collaboration with security and IT teams, and comfort operating at scale in a compliant health-care setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ hands-on Azure experience.
• Strong Terraform and IaC automation skills.
• Experience with AKS or container apps.
• Familiarity with Azure DevOps/GitHub.
• Security, compliance and cost governance focus.
• Excellent stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Deliver, operate and secure Azure cloud infrastructure.
• Improve maturity of Azure platform services and DevOps practices.
• Own IaC 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.
• Support cloud migrations and platform modernisation.
• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards.
• Support organisation-wide digital and virtual-care transformation goals.

Skills

Azure

Terraform

Bicep

ARM templates

Azure DevOps

GitHub

AKS

Azure Container Apps

Disaster recovery

Communication

Tools

GitHub Actions

Terraform

AzureDevOps

Job description

Job Description:

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 willdrive 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,Sydneyor 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,operateand 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-solvingand working at scale in a regulated, mission-critical environment.

The role

• Deliver andoperatesecure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure

• Improve the maturity of Azure platform services, DevOpspracticesand operational processes

• Own and uplift Infrastructure as Code patterns, deploymentpipelinesand platform hardening

• Support high availability,backupand 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,networkingand application teamsto collaborate with for common goals

• Support cloud migrations, platformmodernisationand new service delivery

• Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices

• Supportorganisation-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 –plusexperience with Bicep, ARM templates, AzureDevOpsand/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, FunctionAppsorcontainerisedapplication platforms

• Strong knowledge of backup, disasterrecoveryand 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.

Closing Date:

4 November 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. 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 https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at [e-mail]

View Reconciliation Action Plan

Code of Conduct:

View Code of Conduct