Senior Azure Cloud Operations Engineer | FinOps & SecOps

Latitude IT; Sydney; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Latitude IT in Sydney, Australia, seeks a hands-on Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to oversee and continually improve its Azure-based production environment, balancing reliability, security and cost efficiency. The role emphasizes operational focus over pure DevOps, spanning ITSM, security operations, FinOps and AI-enabled workloads.

You will help mature cloud ops with monitoring, automation, runbooks and incident response.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience operating a large Microsoft Azure environment.
• Operational background supporting production cloud environments.
• Experience with ITSM/ITIL processes.
• Strong SecOps / cloud security experience (Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, RBAC).
• FinOps or cloud cost optimization experience (Azure Cost Management, rightsizing).
• Experience with cloud monitoring/observability tools (Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, App Insights).
• Exposure to IaC (Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell).
• Experience with hybrid cloud/enterprise infrastructure is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Operate and support a large-scale Microsoft Azure environment, ensuring performance, availability, reliability and security.
• Take ownership of day-to-day Cloud Operations, including monitoring, incident response, problem resolution, patching and continuous improvement.
• Work within ITSM processes, including incident, problem and change management.
• Support and improve cloud monitoring, observability and operational alerting.
• Partner with security teams to strengthen cloud security operations, including identity, access, vulnerability remediation and security monitoring.
• Drive FinOps and cloud cost optimisation initiatives, including identifying opportunities for rightsizing, improving cost visibility and optimising cloud consumption.
• Automate operational tasks and improve the reliability and efficiency of the cloud platform.
• Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks and support procedures.
• Support the organisation's evolving use of AI-enabled workloads and AIOps, including intelligent monitoring, automation and AI-assisted operational processes.

Skills

Azure Ops

ITIL/ITSM

Security Ops

FinOps

Observability

Automation

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

PowerShell

Azure Monitor

Log Analytics

Application Insights

Job description

Latitude IT in Sydney, Australia, seeks a hands-on Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to oversee and continually improve its Azure-based production environment, balancing reliability, security and cost efficiency. The role emphasizes operational focus over pure DevOps, spanning ITSM, security operations, FinOps and AI-enabled workloads.

You will help mature cloud ops with monitoring, automation, runbooks and incident response.