Senior Cloud Engineer

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

We are looking for a hands‑on Senior Cloud Operations Engineer to join a large and well‑established organisation and play a key role in the operation, security and continuous improvement of its cloud environment.

This is not a pure DevOps or Kubernetes role. We are looking for someone with a strong Cloud Operations mindset who is comfortable operating production environments and brings experience across ITSM, security operations and cloud cost optimisation.

What you'll be doing

• 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 established 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.

What we're looking for

• Strong hands‑on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Operations.
• A genuine operational background supporting production cloud environments, rather than purely project or platform build experience.
• Experience with ITSM / ITIL, including incident, problem and change management.
• Strong SecOps / cloud security experience, ideally across areas such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, vulnerability management or security monitoring.
• Demonstrated FinOps or cloud cost optimisation experience, including Azure Cost Management, rightsizing, tagging, reserved capacity or improving cloud cost visibility.
• Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Exposure to automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep or PowerShell.
• Experience supporting hybrid cloud and enterprise infrastructure environments will be highly regarded.
• Exposure to AIOps or AI‑enabled cloud workloads would be advantageous, but you do not need to be an AI specialist.

Why this role?

This is an opportunity to join a team where you will have a genuine impact on how cloud operations are managed and matured. You'll work across the full operational lifecycle, from reliability and service management through to security, automation and cost optimisation.

If you're a Cloud Engineer who enjoys being close to operations and wants a role with broad responsibility across CloudOps, ITSM, SecOps and FinOps, we'd love to hear from you.