Senior Cloud Solution Engineer

AIA; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 160,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training & development

Internal mobility

Wellbeing initiatives

Extra leave

Supportive managers

Hybrid flexibility

Job summary

AIA in Australia is seeking a Senior Cloud Solution Engineer (Azure) to design, build and operate secure, scalable cloud platforms aligned with enterprise architecture. You will drive landing zones, IaC pipelines and governance across teams to ensure production-ready solutions.

You’ll lead architecture reviews, collaborate with security and delivery teams, and promote cost optimisation while advancing AI-assisted engineering practices. Hybrid work arrangement offered with in-office and WFH days.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in infrastructure and platform engineering, delivering enterprise-scale Microsoft Azure solutions (landing zones, networking, identity, security and core platform services).
• Strong hands-on IaC capability using Terraform and/or Bicep with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions).
• Solid foundations in security by design, cost governance and cloud governance controls.

Responsibilities

• Design secure, scalable Azure cloud solutions across networking, identity, compute, storage and security.
• Build and govern landing zones and platform foundations, including policies and RBAC for consistency and compliance.
• Lead solution implementation with IaC and CI/CD, driving automation and AI-assisted tooling to improve delivery.
• Ensure production readiness with monitoring, runbooks and handover to Cloud Operations.
• Collaborate across architects, delivery teams and partners, promoting cost optimisation and reuse.

Skills

Azure cloud

Terraform

CI/CD

AKS

Security by design

FinOps

Cost optimisation

Networking

Identity

Observability

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Job description

BE THE DIFFERENCE

At AIA we don’t simply believe in being ‘the best’. We believe in better – because there’s no limit to how far ‘better’ can take us. Everything we do is driven by our purpose to make a difference by helping people embrace Healthier, Longer, Better Lives. And every one of our people has an important role to play. If you want to make a difference by helping shape a healthier, better-protected Australia, read on.

The Opportunities:

The Senior Cloud Solution Engineer (Azure) is a senior technical role responsible for designing, building and delivering secure, scalable and reliable cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure, in alignment with enterprise architecture principles and standards. The role translates business and architectural requirements into practical cloud designs, delivers Azure landing zones and workloads using Infrastructure as Code, and improves delivery speed and quality through automation and AI assisted engineering practices.

The role provides technical leadership across cloud solution design and implementation, working closely with architects, security, infrastructure and delivery teams. It ensures solutions are secure, resilient, cost effective and production ready, applies safe and responsible use of AI enabled engineering tools, and supports effective transition of solutions into operational support.

To do this successfully you will:

• Design secure, scalable and resilient Azure cloud solutions across networking, identity, compute, storage, security and platform services, translating business and enterprise architecture requirements into deployable, compliant and supportable designs.
• Build, evolve and govern Azure landing zones and platform foundations, including subscriptions, policies, RBAC, networking baselines, logging, tagging standards and Azure‑native governance controls to ensure consistency, security and compliance.
• Lead solution implementation using Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines, delivering new builds, migrations and re‑platforming initiatives while driving automation, standardisation and the responsible use of AI‑assisted engineering tools to improve delivery efficiency and quality.
• Design and implement Azure networking, identity, security and observability capabilities, ensuring solutions are production‑ready with appropriate monitoring, documentation, runbooks and effective handover to Cloud Operations.
• Provide technical leadership and collaboration across architects, delivery teams, cloud service providers and partners, contribute to design governance and reviews, ensure adherence to AIA standards, and promote cost optimisation, reuse and strong cloud engineering practices.

Successful applications will demonstrate:

• Extensive experience in infrastructure and platform engineering, with strong hands‑on delivery of enterprise‑scale Microsoft Azure solutions spanning landing zones, networking, identity, security and core platform services.
• Advanced Infrastructure as Code capability using Terraform and or Bicep, with proven delivery through CI/CD pipelines such as Azure DevOps and or GitHub Actions.
• Strong foundations in infrastructure, networking and security by design, including private and hybrid connectivity, routing, DNS, firewalls, secure baselines and governance controls.
• Proven experience delivering modern cloud workloads and transformations, including container platforms such as AKS, and supporting application and data migrations with effective planning and cutover execution.
• Experience operating in regulated or compliance‑driven environments, with exposure to FinOps practices such as cost modelling, rightsizing and the application of financial guardrails in solution design, combined with strong communication and documentation skills.

Why choose AIA:

At AIA, we’ve made a promise to help people live healthier, longer, better lives. And it starts with our own people.

• Access our training and development to build on your current skills
• Career development through internal mobility opportunities
• Work for a business helping millions of Australians and make a difference to someone’s life everyday
• Access additional leave days a year to recharge and refresh yourself
• Enjoy wonderful Health and Wellbeing initiatives that support you
• Work with supportive and inclusive managers
• Flexible working arrangement – 3 days in office and 2 days WFH

At AIA Australia, we’re proud to help guide, support and protect the wellbeing of over 3.5 million Australians. As part of the AIA Group - the largest independent publicly listed pan-Asian life insurance group – it is our ambition to engage one billion people to live Healthier, Longer, Better Lives by 2030. Lots of companies like to say they’re different. What makes us truly different at AIA, is the difference we make in people’s lives. We are proud that this difference has been recognised in the 2024 ANZIIF awards by being named Life Insurance Company of the Year.

AIA is different. Are you?