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Cloud Engineer

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.

We can talk about Araza all day but instead, here are a few links if you are interested : www.araza.com.au , LinkedIn

Why Araza?

We are GREAT. Our purpose is to have our teams align with our client’s needs to assist them on their most interesting and innovative projects. We do this by aligning our clients and teams to our core values of Be Great and Be Grateful . This focus has helped make us an employer of choice and the consultancy of choice in the Australian market.

We are DIVERSE and INCLUSIVE. We are recognised leader in diversity with an excellent representation of women in leadership and a team with differing backgrounds, ethnicities, experiences and abilities.

We care. Araza is a company that cares for their people. It's that simple. You will work with truly talented switched on and collaborative team members that help each other to succeed.

We rock. #HumbleBrag is that a lot of other companies think we are great as well!

Next Steps

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

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