Senior Azure Cloud Engineer

Job Description:

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.

Stand Out Points

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.

The role

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

About you

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

Things that work for you:

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)

Why become part of St Vincent’s Health Australia Because you’re like us, you believe in our vision that every person, whoever and wherever they are, is served with excellent and compassionate care, by a better and fairer health and aged care system. Better for all our people, who work tirelessly to provide the highest levels of care and quality of life for our patients and clients. And better support for the local communities we play an important role in and continue to support.

Reconciliation Action Plan As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples. For further information, visit http://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

Interested? Apply today and please note - we will be progressing applications throughout the advertising period.

Respectfully, no recruitment agencies.

Closing Date:

22 October 2026 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https ://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

View Reconciliation Action Plan

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