Senior Azure Cloud Engineer - DevOps & IaC Specialist

Ayan Infotech Pty; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

AYAN InfoTech in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join an exciting project. You will contribute to a mature environment, deploying Azure-based solutions and automation using Terraform, Azure DevOps, and IaC patterns.

The role requires strong Azure expertise, DevSecOps experience, and hands-on scripting; 7+ years experience preferred. This is a 6-month contract with potential extensions in Melbourne.

Qualifications

• 8 - 10+ years' experience working in medium to large IT environments.
• 4 years working with Azure Public Cloud services designing and building cloud solutions using IaaS and PaaS services.
• In-depth knowledge of Azure cloud platform and services.
• Experience developing and adopting DevSecOps strategies.
• Hands-on deploying applications and building infrastructure in cloud via Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines.
• Scripting and automation skills: Python, PowerShell, Bash.
• Infrastructure-as-Code and Terraform OSS experience.
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes.
• Deep knowledge of Azure Backup and Azure Monitor for IaaS.
• Understanding of Azure policies and policy-as-code deployment.

Responsibilities

• Authoring and deploying DSC configurations for VM baseline enforcement and drift remediation.
• Azure Policy design and remediation across subscriptions with governance.
• Map integration points and dependencies with SLA considerations.
• Terraform module design for Azure resources and state management.
• Automation of remediation via Terraform and Azure DevOps pipelines.
• Test and validate remediated services for connectivity and firewall rules.
• Documentation of final-state architecture and runbooks.
• Develop standards and IaC patterns; lead project engineering approach.
• Develop and configure workloads to Azure using Terraform in a DevOps setup.
• Create design docs in accordance with standards.
• Maintain monitoring and observability tools.
• Hands-on development to address complex tasks and non-functional areas.
• Review designs for functional, resilience, security, reuse, ops needs.
• Collaborate with architects, delivery squads, project managers.
• Design solutions to automate existing processes using DevOps.
• Contribute to central knowledge repository.
• Provide technical leadership and ensure alignment to standards.
• Collaborate with other teams and ensure reliability and supportability.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Leadership

Scripting (Python/PowerShell/Bash)

Tools

Terraform OSS

Azure DevOps

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

AYAN InfoTech in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer to join an exciting project. You will contribute to a mature environment, deploying Azure-based solutions and automation using Terraform, Azure DevOps, and IaC patterns.

The role requires strong Azure expertise, DevSecOps experience, and hands-on scripting; 7+ years experience preferred. This is a 6-month contract with potential extensions in Melbourne.