One of our Federal Government Clients is seeking to engage a Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure)- EL1

Please check below all the job details:

1. Contract Duration: 13 Months (07 Months initially + 06 Months extension)
2. Work Location: Only Canberra (Hybrid available)
3. Office Address: 18 Marcus Clarke Street Civic
4. Eligibility: You must need to have Baseline Security Clearance or above.
5. Tentative Start Date: 07th Dec 2026
6. Working Hours: 7.5 hours a day/ 37.5 hours a week

Overview The Cloud Engineer is responsible for the design, implementation, support, and continual improvement of department's cloud platforms and services. Working within the Information Technology Branch (ITB), the role supports the delivery of cloud infrastructure, application hosting, automation, security, and digital transformation initiatives.

Key duties and responsibilities:

Reporting to the Chief Technology Officer and working closely with Solution Architects, Project Managers, Cyber Security teams, and operational support staff, the Cloud Engineer provides technical expertise across cloud environments and ensures solutions are secure, resilient, and aligned with department's technology standards and strategic objectives.

The role is hands-on and requires solid technical capabilities in Microsoft Azure, infrastructure-as-code, automation, identity management, security, and operational support.

Summary:

The Information Technology Branch within department has a requirement for a Cloud Engineer to assist in the delivery of a number of transformation application projects.

The Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the following tasks:

- Development and implementation of department's solution centric Azure capability including: Azure Policy,



Azure app services, Azure SQL Databases, Key Vaults, Azure Front Door, and Enterprise Landing Zones.
- Development of Infrastructure as Code artifacts for automating Azure infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
- Refactorisation of legacy applications to use cloud native services and technology.
- Development of designs.
- Attendance of daily scrums and manage work items assigned using Microsoft DevOps and the Agile methodology.
- Ensuring cloud solutions align to better practice and WOG cyber security overlay and compliance with the Essential 8.

Mandatory Experience: The Cloud Engineer must have the following required skills and experience:

- Knowledge and experience in delivering 'as a service' capabilities using Azure technologies; designing and implementing secure networks in Azure; and securing Azure technologies to an Official level.
- Demonstrated experience designing and implementing on-premises and 'as a service' capabilities.
- Understanding and experience in the application of Systems Engineering methodologies for complex ICT system development.
- Ability to provide engineering guidance and leadership within one or more technology domains;
- Experience with one or more of: ARM Templates (JSON/BICEP), Azure CLI.
- Experience in modernising legacy applications in order to utilise cloud native services.
- Experience in migration of SQL Server to SQL MI or Azure SQL.

The Next step is easy: If you are interested, you may send an email to [email protected] Referral incentive program: As always, we have the candidate referral incentive program through which you will get $1000 for each successful referral after the successful selection and joining of the referred candidates

📌 Senior Cloud Engineer (Azure) (Australian Capital Territory)
🏢 IT Alliance Australia
📍 Australian Capital Territory