Sovereign Cloud Engineer: Infra & Automation

Sol Stak Pty; Australian Capital Territory; Hybrid; AUD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

SolStak is seeking a Cloud Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-native infrastructure across sovereign Australian cloud and hybrid environments, enabling secure, scalable platforms for Defence and government mission systems.

You design landing zones, automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, optimise cost and resilience, embed security controls, and collaborate with engineering teams to support migration and modernisation programmes in regulated settings.

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS, Azure or sovereign cloud providers in enterprise settings.
• Strong infrastructure-as-code and scripting capabilities.
• Pragmatic approach to delivery in regulated environments.
• Minimum two years of proven experience in a relevant role.
• Own GitLab instance and home lab environment (highly desirable).
• Existing Australian Government security clearance (highly desirable).
• Industry certifications (highly desirable).

Responsibilities

• Design and implement cloud landing zones, networking and core platform services.
• Automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent tooling.
• Optimise cost, performance and resilience of cloud workloads.
• Embed security controls and compliance requirements into cloud architecture.
• Partner with engineering teams to support migration and modernisation programmes.

Skills

Cloud design & architecture

Regulated environment delivery

Security mindset

Tools

GitLab

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation / ARM/Bicep

Job description

SolStak is seeking a Cloud Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-native infrastructure across sovereign Australian cloud and hybrid environments, enabling secure, scalable platforms for Defence and government mission systems.

You design landing zones, automate provisioning with Terraform and Ansible, optimise cost and resilience, embed security controls, and collaborate with engineering teams to support migration and modernisation programmes in regulated settings.