Senior Azure Cloud Engineer: Automation & Hybrid Security

Housing Australia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 180,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Meaningful impact

Flexible work

Growth opportunities

Collaborative culture

Job summary

Housing Australia is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to maintain and evolve our cloud and infrastructure with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure. You will ensure reliability, security, and performance of our cloud and on-premise platforms, driving automation and cost optimisation.

You will collaborate with security, platform and operations teams to underpin enterprise applications, integrations and emerging technologies while aligning with governance and architecture standards.

Qualifications

• Must have experience managing and optimising Microsoft Azure cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Experience implementing security, backup, disaster recovery and compliance controls in regulated environments.
• Strong knowledge of monitoring, observability and incident management with Azure tools.

Responsibilities

• Manage and optimise Azure cloud and hybrid infrastructure, ensuring high availability, performance, scalability and cost efficiency.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure-as-code and automation solutions to streamline provisioning, configuration management and operational support.
• Implement and maintain security, backup, disaster recovery and compliance controls in line with government and industry standards.
• Monitor infrastructure health, resolve incidents, and provide Level 3 technical support while driving continuous service improvements.
• Provide technical guidance on cloud architecture, modernisation initiatives and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled services and Microsoft Azure innovations.

Skills

Microsoft Azure

Cloud networking

Infrastructure automation

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Security controls

Disaster recovery

Monitoring & observability

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Job description

Housing Australia is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to maintain and evolve our cloud and infrastructure with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure. You will ensure reliability, security, and performance of our cloud and on-premise platforms, driving automation and cost optimisation.

You will collaborate with security, platform and operations teams to underpin enterprise applications, integrations and emerging technologies while aligning with governance and architecture standards.