Senior Cloud Engineer
Job Summary
Job Description:
Better and fairer care.Always.
St Vincents has been a leader in Australias health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders the Sisters of Charity opened our first hospital in 1857 our services andnearly 30000people have been behind some of Australias most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australias health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.
We are looking for a special kind of person - a St Vincents kind of person. Someone who puts excellence compassion connection and caring for other people at the heart of everything they do.
We are looking for aSenior Cloud Engineerto deliveroperateand continuously improve our Azure and hybrid cloud environments supporting Tier 0 clinical and enterprise platforms.
This is ahandsonsenior technical rolefor an engineer who enjoys ownershipproblem solvingand working at scale in a regulatedmission criticalenvironment.
The role
Reporting to the Cloud Operations Manager you will:
- Deliver andoperatesecure scalable Azure and hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Own Infrastructure as Code automationpatchingand monitoring practices
- Support high availabilitybackupand disaster recovery for critical systems
- Act as a senior technical escalation point during incidents and outages
- Implement security controls aligned with ISO27001 and Essential Eight
- Partner with cybersecuritynetworkingand application teams
- Support cloud migrations platformmodernisationand new service delivery
- Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
Youllhave deep technical ownership and a direct impact on the reliability of systems used by cliniciansstaffand patients every day.
About you
Yourea technically strong cloud engineer with experience operating enterprise environments. You bring:
- 5 yearshandsonexperience with Microsoft Azure
- Strong experience withIaCand automation (Terraform Bicep ARM Azure DevOps)
- Solid understanding of Azure networking identitysecurityand monitoring
- Experience with containers and AKS
- Knowledge of backupDRand resilience patterns
- Confident incident management and troubleshooting skills
- Effective collaboration with technical and nontechnical stakeholders
Relevant Azure certifications (e.g. AZ104 Solutions Architect Security Engineer) are essential. Experience in healthcare or regulated industries is highly desirable.
LEADERSHIP & ACCOUNTABILITY
- Acts as senior technical SME for Azure and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
- Delivers secure scalable and high-performance compute storage and backup services.
- Maintains ownership of infrastructure-as-code deployments patching and monitoring.
- Leads performance tuning automation and operational support activities.
- Leads or contributes to infrastructure enhancements aligned with SVHAs digital health clinical and operational objective
STRATEGY & EXECUTION
- Contributes to cloud infrastructure strategy and future-state design.
- Implements and maintains IaC frameworks using Terraform Bicep and Azure DevOps.
- Designs and supports cloud services aligned to clinical cybersecurity and resilience requirements.
- Assists with cloud migration workload modernisation and integration of new technologies.
STAKEHOLDER & RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
- Collaborates with cybersecurity network application and service delivery teams.
- Acts as technical advisor for project teams and cross-functional initiatives.
- Engages with vendors and service providers to troubleshoot and optimise solutions.
- Contributes to knowledge sharing and supports capability uplift within the team.
GOVERNANCE RISK & COMPLIANCE
- Implements security controls in alignment with Essential Eight and ISO27001.
- Maintains Role Based Access Controls (RBAC) Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Azure AD configurations for secure access.
- Supports internal and external audit readiness for cloud environments.
- Ensures infrastructure remains compliant with SVHA policies and standards.
OPERATIONS & SERVICE MANAGEMENT
- Leads day-to-day operations of SVHAs Azure infrastructure.
- Acts as escalation point for major incidents and platform outages affecting cloud services.
- Performs system patching vulnerability remediation and platform lifecycle activities.
- Maintains observability using Azure Monitor Log Analytics and third-party tools.
- Owns incident triage resolution and post-incident review processes.
- Maintains compliance with backup DR and supportability requirements.
PROCESS & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- Monitors infrastructure performance availability and utilisation metrics.
- Reports on incidents system health and cost optimisation opportunities.
- Implements improvements based on system insights and root cause analysis.
PEOPLE LEADERSHIP & DEVELOPMENT
- Provides mentoring and technical leadership to other cloud and infrastructure engineers.
- Supports a culture of collaboration documentation and continuous learning.
- Champions engineering standards peer reviews and operational handovers.
EXTERNAL ENGAGEMENT & PARTNERSHIPS
- Works with cloud providers/partners managed service providers and vendors on platform support.
- Contributes to evaluation of new tools and services to support platform goals.
CULTURE & VALUES ALIGNMENT
- Champions SVHAs mission and values modelling ethical conduct compassion and inclusiveness.
- Centres design and decision-making around the experience of patients residents staff and clinicians.
ON-CALL & CLINICAL TECH RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participates in after-hours support and on-call roster.
- Ensures timely resolution of high-priority incidents affecting clinical systems.
- Supports resilience and recoverability of life-critical infrastructure platforms.
Essential
- Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience managing Microsoft Azure cloud environments including compute storage networking databases identity and security.
- Advanced expertise in Terraform Bicep ARM templates and Azure DevOps for IaC CI/CD and platform automation. Scripting proficiency in PowerShell Azure CLI and Bash.
- Strong working knowledge of Azure security frameworks (RBAC PIM Conditional Access Defender Sentinel) aligned to ISO27001 Essential Eight and other compliance standards.
- Proven ability to design and support scalable resilient architectures using Availability Zones ASR Azure Backup and DR strategies.
- Deep technical experience with Azure networking: VNets NSGs VPN Gateway ExpressRoute Load Balancers Azure Firewall and Network Watcher.
- Proficiency in monitoring and cost optimisation using Azure Monitor Log Analytics Application Insights Budgets and Advisor.
- Demonstrated experience with containers (Docker) and orchestration (AKS) including microservices-based deployments.
- Extensive involvement in cloud migrations platform modernisation hybrid environments and legacy workload transformation.
- Technical integration experience with Windows Server () AD GPO DHCP DFS WSUS file/print services and Office 365.
- Effective stakeholder engagement across cybersecurity infrastructure and application domains; able to lead initiatives across complex enterprise environments.
Desirable
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills including presenting technical topics to non-technical audiences.
- Demonstrated experience leading technical workstreams or mentoring peers in cloud engineering.
- Exposure to multi-cloud environments (AWS GCP) or hybrid cloud interoperability.
- Proficiency with third-party monitoring tools (e.g. PRTG Dynatrace).
- Familiarity with project delivery frameworks including Agile sprint planning and backlog management.
- Previous experience in regulated healthcare or digital health environments is advantageous.
- Background in system architecture cloud design or technical leadership roles.
- Experience in digital health or regulated clinical environments.
Closing Date:
4 June 2026 11:59pmReconciliation Action Plan:
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