Senior Cloud Engineer

Ad Astra Consultants; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Ad Astra Consultants is seeking an experienced Azure Cloud Engineer in Sydney to lead cross-cloud infrastructure initiatives. You will translate high-level designs into detailed plans, drive tenant migrations, and support post go-live Hypercare with strong CAF-aligned landing zones.

The role requires hands-on experience with Terraform, Azure DevOps, and multi-cloud networking, including Azure and GCP connectivity, DNS, and routing. Strong Windows/Linux administration is essential.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience as an Azure Cloud Engineer in large-scale retail or ERP migrations.
• Ability to translate High-Level Designs into Detailed Level Designs and present to ARB or governance bodies.
• Experience tenant-to-tenant Azure migrations including workloads, resources and identities across tenancies.
• Proven track record delivering infrastructure support, troubleshooting, and stabilisation during post go-live Hypercare windows.
• Azure Landing Zones aligned with CAF principles.
• Proficiency with Terraform and Azure DevOps for automated deployment.
• Hybrid/multi-cloud networking experience including Azure Hub-and-Spoke, Azure Firewall, ExpressRoute and BGP.
• Knowledge of GCP networking concepts for multi-cloud connectivity (VPCs, Cloud Routers, NCC topologies, BGP propagation).
• Experience managing data transport, routing, and DNS between Azure, GCP, and on‑premise data centres.
• Provisioning/core Azure components (SQL MI, SQL Server on IaaS, Azure VMs).
• Windows Server and Linux administration.
• Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow for agile task tracking and delivery.

Skills

Azure cloud engineering

Architecture governance

Tenant-to-tenant migrations

Hypercare

Azure Landing Zones CAF

Hybrid/multi-cloud networking

GCP networking concepts

Data transport & DNS across clouds

Azure component provisioning

Windows & Linux administration

Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow usage

Tools

Terraform

Azure DevOps

Jira

Confluence

ServiceNow

Job description

Must Have :

• 5+ years of experience as an Azure Cloud Engineer, ideally within large-scale retail enterprise programs or ERP migrations.
• Proven experience translating High-Level Designs into comprehensive Detailed Level Designs (DLD) and navigating them through an Architecture Review Board (ARB) or similar governance body.
• Demonstrated experience executing tenant-to-tenant Azure migrations, including the moving of workloads, resources, and identities between disparate Azure tenancies.
• Proven track record of delivering technical infrastructure support, troubleshooting, and stabilisation during post go-live Hypercare windows.
• Extensive hands-on experience implementing Azure Landing Zones aligned with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles.
• Deep proficiency with Terraform and Azure DevOps for automated, pipeline-driven infrastructure deployment.
• Strong hybrid and multi-cloud networking experience, including Azure Hub-and-Spoke, Azure Firewall policy management, ExpressRoute, and native routing protocols (BGP).
• Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) networking concepts required to support multi-cloud connectivity, specifically VPCs, Cloud Routers, Network Connectivity Center (NCC) topologies, and BGP route propagation over interconnects/VPNs.
• Experience managing data transport, transit routing, and DNS resolution between Azure, GCP, and on-premise data centres.
• Proven expertise in provisioning and tuning core Azure components (but not limited to) like Azure SQL Managed Instance, SQL Server on IaaS, Azure Virtual Machines etc
• Strong systems administration experience in both Windows Server and Linux environments.
• Proficiency using tools like Jira, Confluence and Service Now for agile task tracking, delivery and documentation