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.
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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.
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What you'll be doing
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Operate and support a large‐scale Microsoft Azure environment, ensuring performance, availability, reliability and security.
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Take ownership of day‐to‐day Cloud Operations, including monitoring, incident response, problem resolution, patching and continuous improvement.
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Work within established ITSM processes, including incident, problem and change management.
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Support and improve cloud monitoring, observability and operational alerting.
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Partner with security teams to strengthen cloud security operations, including identity, access, vulnerability remediation and security monitoring.
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Drive FinOps and cloud cost optimisation initiatives, including identifying opportunities for rightsizing, improving cost visibility and optimising cloud consumption.
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Automate operational tasks and improve the reliability and efficiency of the cloud platform.
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Develop and maintain operational documentation, runbooks and support procedures.
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Support the organisation's evolving use of AI‐enabled workloads and AIOps, including intelligent monitoring, automation and AI‐assisted operational processes.
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What we're looking for
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Solid hands‐on experience in Microsoft Azure Cloud Operations.
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A genuine operational background supporting production cloud environments, rather than purely project or platform build experience.
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Experience with ITSM / ITIL, including incident, problem and change management.
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Strong SecOps / cloud security experience, ideally across areas such as Microsoft Defender, Sentinel, Entra ID, RBAC, Conditional Access, vulnerability management or security monitoring.
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Demonstrated FinOps or cloud cost optimisation experience, including Azure Cost Management, rightsizing, tagging, reserved capacity or improving cloud cost visibility.
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Experience with cloud monitoring and observability tools such as Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
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Exposure to automation and Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep or PowerShell.
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Experience supporting hybrid cloud and enterprise infrastructure environments will be highly regarded.
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Exposure to AIOps or AI‐enabled cloud workloads would be advantageous, but you do not need to be an AI specialist.
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Why this role?
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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.
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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.

📌 Senior Cloud Engineer (New South Wales)
🏢 Latitude IT
📍 New South Wales