Cloud backup and storage engineer Jobs in Canberra, australian capital territory, australia

Start Date : 1 July 2025

Length : 24 months + 2 x 12 month extensions

Location of work : ACT (Canberra), NSW (Sydney, Newcastle), Queensland (Brisbane), South Australia (Adelaide) or Victoria (Melbourne, Box Hill)

We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to join our team at a federal government department in Canberra. The successful candidate would be working on an enterprise data and analytics program. The program will look to deliver improvements in various channels, improve data visibility, improved automated processing and better utilisation of information.

This program would be suitable for a candidate who has worked in large cloud and data projects before and is looking for a challenging and rewarding opportunity to utilise their skills. The team will align to a scaled agile delivery methodology and would regularly work with other multi-disciplinary teams.

This is a fantastic long-term opportunity for a suitable Cloud Engineer to further develop their abilities on large-scale data programs.

About You

AWS Cloud Expertise : Proficient in the AWS Cloud Platform. Skilled in cloud operations tools and IaC.

Technical Capability : Knowledge of monitoring, logging, alerting, troubleshooting, backup, recovery, and optimisation. Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Teamwork : Excellent collaboration and communication skills.

Technical Writing : Experience writing technical operations documents.

Problem Solving : Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Key Responsibilities Include

• Providing guidance on industry best practice for maintaining and monitoring large cloud-based highly available solutions.
• Providing advice and support to uplift our DevSecOps process to continue to evolve our delivery of infrastructure as code, microservices architecture, continuous integration (CI), continuous deployment (CD), site reliability engineering (SRE) to support highly available and resilient systems, and test automation capability.
• Enhancing and sustaining FinOps capabilities including implementation and support for granular cost tracking. This includes design for finops solutions, understanding impacts to scale, implementation of monitoring and optimising finops to track cloud solution costs, implementing finops reporting capabilities, ensuring cloud cost avoidance, tracking efficiency of cloud environments across multiple domains.
• Providing solutions to support performance monitoring and optimisation of applications to meet SLA expectations.

About Araza

Our organisation works with Australia’s largest enterprise and government clients providing project and program teams and resources to ensure success. We pride ourselves on being a trusted technology partner and working collaboratively.

We're partnering with a leading Australian department to deliver high-quality projects that drive impactful results, focused on protecting national interests through intelligence, cybersecurity, and strategic operations to combat global threats.

If this sounds like the opportunity you are looking for, apply now! Our team would love to hear from you.

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