Cloud Engineer

About the Client

Our Client is a data and technology partner to the Financial Services Industry with offices in Sydney Melbourne Wollongong and Colombo Sri Lanka. At its core the organisation specialises in data-driven transformation and business optimisation. It partners with clients to transform business functions through the effective use of data and interoperability offering a wide range of services and solutions.

Job Overview

We are seeking a capable and motivated Cloud Engineer to join our Colombo-based Infrastructure Engineering team. This is a mid-level individual contributor role focused on supporting maintaining and improving cloud infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments on behalf of Australian clients.

You will work closely with senior engineers and the Portfolio Lead in Colombo as well as Australian-based infrastructure and platform teams contributing to day-to-day support infrastructure-as-code delivery and cloud platform uplift initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide infrastructure support across AWS and Azure environments including incident response service requests and change implementation.
• Build maintain and improve infrastructure-as-code artefacts using Terraform contributing to consistent and repeatable cloud deployments.
• Assist in monitoring alerting and observability configuration across cloud platforms to ensure environment health and early detection of issues.
• Participate in change management processes preparing change records and implementing approved changes within established windows.
• Maintain accurate technical documentation runbooks and knowledge base articles for supported environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure improvement and uplift initiatives under the guidance of senior engineers and the Portfolio Lead.
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues across time zones including Australian-based platform and application engineering teams.
• Apply security and compliance standards consistently across cloud environments in line with established governance frameworks.

Requirements

• 35 years of experience in cloud engineering infrastructure support or systems administration roles.
• Hands-on experience working with both AWS and Azure in a production or near-production context.
• Working knowledge of core cloud networking IAM compute and storage services on at least one major cloud platform.
• Experience with or exposure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools particularly Terraform.
• Familiarity with ITSM practices including incident change and service request management.
• Sound troubleshooting skills across cloud networking virtual machines and platform services.
• Good written and verbal communication skills in English including the ability to produce clear technical documentation.

Highly Desirable

• AWS Associate-level certification (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate or AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate).
• Microsoft Azure Associate-level certification (e.g. AZ-104: Azure Administrator Associate).
• Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions Azure DevOps or Buildkite for infrastructure pipeline workflows.
• Familiarity with monitoring and observability platforms such as Datadog Azure Monitor or Amazon CloudWatch.
• Exposure to cloud security tools including Microsoft Defender for Cloud or AWS Security Hub.
• Experience working in financial services superannuation or another highly regulated industry.
• Practical experience using AI tools (such as Claude or GitHub Copilot) to accelerate infrastructure tasks improve Infrastructure as Code (IaC) quality or support documentation workflows.

Interested candidates may send their CV to