Senior Cloud Engineer: AWS & Azure Automation

Victorian R&L Services Trust; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

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Job summary

VicRoads is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, implement and support secure, scalable cloud environments across AWS and Azure. You will build IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation, develop automation with Python/PowerShell, and drive governance, security and FinOps excellence.

You will collaborate with engineering, security and operations teams, ensuring reliability, disaster recovery readiness and cost efficiency while maintaining strong documentation and stakeholder communication.

Qualifications

• Baseline or NV1 clearance is highly regarded.
• Australian citizenship is required for security clearance.
• Over 7 years of proven experience designing and supporting cloud environments in AWS and Azure.
• Hands-on expertise with Terraform, CloudFormation, or other Infrastructure as Code tools.
• Strong knowledge of cloud networking, including VPNs, DNS, routing, firewalls, load balancing, and security controls.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong scripting skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar.
• Experience implementing cloud security controls, IAM, encryption, vulnerability management, and compliance frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability platforms, including logging, alerting, dashboard development, and troubleshooting.
• Experience managing cloud costs, resource optimisation, and cloud governance initiatives.
• Excellent problem-solving, stakeholder engagement, and communication skills.
• Nice to Have Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Understanding of FinOps and cloud financial management.
• Experience with cloud governance, risk, and compliance framework.
• AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Security, or FinOps certifications.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and support cloud infrastructure solutions across AWS and Azure.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Develop automation solutions using Python, Bash, PowerShell, Ansible, and other modern tools.
• Implement cloud security best practices, governance controls, and compliance standards.
• Drive cloud cost optimisation initiatives through resource rightsizing, utilisation analysis, and FinOps practices.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions to improve service reliability.
• Support cloud backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity capabilities.
• Collaborate closely with engineering, security, operations, and business teams to deliver cloud solutions and resolve incidents.
• Produce technical documentation, reporting, and recommendations to improve cloud operations and performance.

Skills

Python scripting

PowerShell

Bash

Ansible

CI/CD

Cloud security

FinOps

Monitoring

Stakeholder comms

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

VicRoads is seeking a Cloud Engineer to design, implement and support secure, scalable cloud environments across AWS and Azure. You will build IaC using Terraform and CloudFormation, develop automation with Python/PowerShell, and drive governance, security and FinOps excellence.

You will collaborate with engineering, security and operations teams, ensuring reliability, disaster recovery readiness and cost efficiency while maintaining strong documentation and stakeholder communication.