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Senior Cloud Engineering

Job Description - Senior Cloud Engineering

Summary (Key Skills &
Role):

 

·                Authoring and deploying PowerShell DSC
configurations for VM baseline enforcement;  onboarding target VMs to
Azure Automation State Configuration; drift detection, remediation and
compliance reporting

·                Azure Policy: Design and assignment of
custom and built-in policy definitions across target subscriptions;
remediation task configuration for non-compliant resources; policy exemption
governance and documentation.

·                Stakeholder engagement to map integration
points, upstream/downstream dependencies, and any SLA or latency
sensitivities that may influence the remediation approach

·                Terraform: Design and build of Terraform
modules for approved Azure resource types; state file management via Azure
Storage backend; integration with existing naming conventions, tagging
standards, and landing zone patterns

·                Automation of all remediation changes
using Terraform, with deployment orchestrated through Azure DevOps pipelines.

·                Testing and validation of each remediated
service to confirm connectivity, expected behavior, and firewall rule
compliance post-change

·                Documentation of the final-state
architecture, DSC changes, design revision and runbooks for ongoing
operational support

·                Handover and knowledge transfer to the
AustralianSuper Cloud Services team 

                    •          Develop standards,
engineering patterns, DevOps policies and IaC modules.

•          Set the standard
approach project engineering teams will take in their infrastructure delivery
work.

•          Develop, deploy, and
configure workloads to Microsoft Azure using Terraform in a DevOps
environment.

•          Develop solution,
detailed and functional design documents, ensuring designs are prepared in
accordance with standards and guidelines.

•          Develop, implement,
and maintain monitoring and observability tools for managed environments.

•          Engage in hands-on
development to balance workload or address significant complexity through
technical spike: build, test including non-functional areas like security,
reliability, and performance.

•          Review technical
detail designs and ensure technical designs meet functional, resilience,
security, reuse, and operational needs

•          Collaborate with
project/ BAU teams including architects, delivery squads, principal
engineers, and project managers to meet the project technology and delivery
objectives

•          Design technology
solutions to automate existing processes using DevOps.

•          Contribute towards the
Fund’s central knowledge repository for design models and patterns.

•          Provide technical
leadership and ensure alignment of cloud solutions to target architecture,
standards, and best practices.

•          Collaborate with other
technology teams, assisting with the demands of operations as required, and
empowering teams to enable reliability, resilience, and supportability of
platforms


Essential:  

     • 8-10+ years’ experience
working in medium to large IT environments.

     • 4 years working with Azure
Public Cloud services designing and building cloud solutions using IaaS and
PaaS services, with in depth understanding of cloud products and offerings.

• Cloud Service Proficiency:
In-depth knowledge of Azure cloud platform. Understanding how to leverage
different services for computing, storage, database management, and networking
is crucial. 

    • Experience developing and
adopting DevSecOps strategy and ways-of-working.

    • Hands on deploying
applications and building infrastructure in cloud via Azure DevOps CI/CD
deployment pipelines.

    • Experience in scripting and
automation: Skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar.

    • Hands on with
Infrastructure-as-Code and experience provisioning resources using Terraform
OSS. 

    • Knowledge of container
frameworks, Docker and Kubernetes.

    • Deep knowledge of running
IaaS workloads and design/operation of Azure Backup and Azure Monitor for IaaS
workloads.

• In-depth understanding of
Azure policies and implementing them to enforce compliance, security, and
governance using a policy-as-code deployment model


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