Senior Cloud Engineer

Summary:

As the Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer you are a critical member and primary subject matter expert of the Engineering team. You will provide technical leadership across the design delivery and continuous improvement of secure cloud and on-premises infrastructure solutions with a strong focus on Microsoft Azure and DevOps aligned practices. You will own technical concepts and solution viability ensuring designs and implementations are scalable sustainable and aligned with industry best practice and cyber compliant with security frameworks with a focus on Essential 8 and Australian Defence Industry requirements.

Supporting the Engineering Lead you will develop and uplift process frameworks standards and procedures that drive consistency across projects and operations. You will translate high-level objectives into clear technical work breakdown structures and provide technical guidance to build capability across the team while maintaining strong delivery management.

You will also act as the escalation point for complex critical or unresolved infrastructure issues including those relating to cloud resource and infrastructure. This includes effective stakeholder liaison and a focus on improving support processes and service reliability through continual optimisation and practical end-to-end solutions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure cloud infrastructure solutions that meet business requirements and operational objectives ensuring scalability high availability resilience and recoverability.
• Deploy and manage Azure infrastructure using DevOps-aligned automation and IaC (Terraform) maintaining consistent repeatable governed deployments.
• Configure maintain and optimise core cloud services (compute storage & networking) to meet performance reliability and supportability standards.
• Provide technical leadership across solution design and delivery; uplift engineering frameworks standards and patterns (baseline designs build standards CI/CD IaC).
• Monitor tune and optimise platform performance and cost including capacity planning and cost control measures.
• Implement and maintain security controls aligned to Essential Eight ISO 27001 NIST ASD Secure Cloud Blueprint and relevant ISM controls supporting compliance obligations (including DISP expectations).
• Act as escalation point for complex cloud incidents contributing to incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement; ensure effective business continuity disaster recovery and backup practices.
• Maintain clear technical documentation (designs configurations change records procedures) and mentor junior engineers to uplift team capability.

Skills and Experience

• Advanced Azure engineering capability including Azure Landing Zones and multi-session Azure Virtual Desktop.
• Solid knowledge of Essential 8 framework and ISM Controls within ASD Blueprint for Secure Cloud.
• Strong DevOps and automation skills: Azure DevOps CI/CD and IaC (Terraform preferred; Ansible and ARM/Bicep desirable).
• Solid enterprise infrastructure foundations including networking (subnetting VPNs load balancing) Microsoft enterprise services (M365 E3/E5) and scripting (PowerShell/Bash).
• Experience implementing and operating Veeam Data Cloud backup and recovery solutions (including Microsoft 365 and/or Azure workloads) covering backup policy design retention/immutability restore testing and recovery runbooks to meet customer RPO/RTO requirements.
• Proven platform operations skills: monitoring troubleshooting performance tuning and cost optimisation.
• Security engineering mindset with practical implementation of hardening patching access control and logging/monitoring.
• Familiarity with containerisation/orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes)
• Must be an Australian citizen with ability to obtain and maintain an AGSVA NV-1 security clearance.

Qualifications:

• Tertiary qualification in IT/Computer Science or equivalent demonstrated industry experience.
• (Desirable) Certification in Microsoft: AZ-104 AZ-500 SC-100 SC-200 SC-300 SC-400
• (desirable) Certification in AWS: Solutions Architect Associate/Professional

To apply

Interested and have the right qualifications click on the apply now button. If you would like more information or a copy of the position description please email

Why Join Willyama Services

• Competitive salary and employee benefits
• Work with a leading Indigenous-owned cyber security consultancy
• Career development and training opportunities in secure government sectors
• Be part of initiatives that support Australias national security
• Thrive in a supportive values-driven culture: Opportunity Trust Courage Lead

About Willyama

At Willyama we are committed to supporting Australias National interest while focussing on providing opportunities for disadvantaged sectors of the community including Indigenous and veterans. We commit to making a difference and I hope you find your opportunity to make your difference. We are committed to diversity equity and inclusion reflecting personal values experiences and future contributions to fostering an inclusive environment. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and provide indigenous and veteran support and mentoring programs.