Senior Azure Cloud EngineerSt Vincent's Health Australia · Greater Melbourne Area

Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

🗓️ Posted 2026-09-23 Greater Melbourne Area Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$10,833–A$15,000/mo

About the Company

Better and fairer care. Always. St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's 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 and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment. Reporting directly to the Cloud Operations Manager, the Senior Azure Cloud Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable, and cost-effective cloud solutions that support the organisation's strategic goals and business operations. You will be pivotal in shaping our cloud strategy, optimising cloud performance and will drive the modernisation, migration, and optimisation of applications and services to Azure, while also supporting multi-cloud environments as required. A key responsibility is the management and governance of St Vincent's Azure tenancy, ensuring security, compliance, cost optimisation, and operational efficiency across the platform. Full-time permanent position Hybrid working arrangement - office based in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane Not-for-Profit salary packaging - earn more for doing the job you love

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to deliver, operate and continuously improve our Azure cloud platform supporting Tier 0 clinical and enterprise systems. This is a hands-on senior technical role for an engineer who enjoys ownership, problem-solving and working at scale in a regulated, mission-critical environment. Deliver and operate secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure Improve the maturity of Azure platform services, DevOps practices and operational processes Own and uplift Infrastructure as Code patterns, deployment pipelines and platform hardening Support high availability, backup and disaster recovery for critical systems Act as a senior technical escalation point during incidents and outages Implement security controls aligned with best practices Partner with cybersecurity, data, networking and application teams to collaborate with for common goals Support cloud migrations, platform modernisation and new service delivery Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices Support organisation-wide digital and virtual-care transformation goals

Responsibilities

  • ● This is a hands-on senior technical role for an engineer who enjoys ownership, problem-solving and working at scale in a regulated, mission-critical environment.
  • ● Deliver and operate secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure
  • ● Improve the maturity of Azure platform services, DevOps practices and operational processes
  • ● Own and uplift Infrastructure as Code patterns, deployment pipelines and platform hardening
  • ● Support high availability, backup and disaster recovery for critical systems
  • ● Act as a senior technical escalation point during incidents and outages
  • ● Implement security controls aligned with best practices
  • ● Partner with cybersecurity, data, networking and application teams to collaborate with for common goals
  • ● Support cloud migrations, platform modernisation and new service delivery
  • ● Mentor engineers and contribute to engineering standards and best practices
  • ● Support organisation-wide digital and virtual-care transformation goals

Requirements

  • ● 5+ years' hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure
  • ● Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation, particularly Terraform - plus experience with Bicep, ARM templates, Azure DevOps and/or GitHub
  • ● Experience leveraging Platform Engineering patterns and AI-assisted development (e.g., GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery and operational efficiency
  • ● Experience with AKS, Azure Container Apps, Function Apps or containerised application platforms
  • ● Strong knowledge of backup, disaster recovery and resilience patterns
  • ● Excellent communication and collaboration skills to be used with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • ● Ability to visibly see your impact on the business and its service
  • ● Competitive salary packaging options
  • ● Discounted private health insurance
  • ● Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families
  • ● Access to the Fitness Passport (FP)