Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Azure & Automation

Wesfarmers; Perth; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wesfarmers’ Corporate Technology team is seeking a senior infrastructure and cloud engineer to lead the modernisation of our Azure and hybrid platforms. You’ll own cloud environments, drive automation, and deliver platform engineering at scale to support critical Corporate Office services.

You’ll work with a collaborative team of security, network and software engineers, mentoring others, shaping technical direction, and applying Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and guardrails to improve

Qualifications

• Senior infrastructure and cloud engineer with hands-on experience modernising and migrating on-premises environments into Azure.
• Experience across Windows Server, Active Directory, VMware and hybrid identity with strong Azure engineering capability.
• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Bicep or similar tooling to build repeatable automation.
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Azure, Microsoft 365 and core identity services (Entra ID, Intune, Exchange Online).
• Ability to influence technical direction, mentor others and collaborate with architects, security specialists and stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across Wesfarmers' cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments.
• Lead the migration and transformation of traditional infrastructure into a modern cloud operating model.
• Establish and enhance Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD and automation practices using Terraform, Bicep, Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
• Embed security-by-design principles across cloud platforms to meet cyber security and compliance requirements.
• Drive technical delivery of cloud and infrastructure initiatives with design assurance and vendor oversight.
• Mentor engineers and grow cloud, automation and platform engineering capability across the team.

Skills

Hybrid infrastructure

Azure engineering

IaC & automation

Cloud modernization

Technical leadership

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

Wesfarmers’ Corporate Technology team is seeking a senior infrastructure and cloud engineer to lead the modernisation of our Azure and hybrid platforms. You’ll own cloud environments, drive automation, and deliver platform engineering at scale to support critical Corporate Office services.

You’ll work with a collaborative team of security, network and software engineers, mentoring others, shaping technical direction, and applying Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, and guardrails to improve