2 Senior Azure Cloud and Automation Engineers
Australian Electoral Commission
Role details
- Estimated start date
- 24 November 2026
- Experience level
- Senior - EL1 equivalent
- Initial contract duration
- 8 months
- Maximum hours
- 40 hours per week
- Extension term
- 12 months
- Number of extensions
- 1
Working arrangement detail
Applicants will perform the role in the AEC National Office in Canberra. Hybrid working arrangements may be considered at the discretion of the hiring manager.
About the Role
The Azure Cloud Automation Engineer role will focus on managing and uplifting the AEC’s cloud infrastructure. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting Azure cloud services and platforms to ensure the secure, reliable, and efficient delivery of AEC systems and services. The duties will be primarily focussed on managing components from solutions based on Azure, with possible additional tasks in on-premises infrastructure and in AWS accounts.
Reporting to the Assistant Director Azure, this role will contribute to the infrastructure team’s mission to deliver positive outcomes for the operational matters relating to the management and support of AEC infrastructure and systems.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a significant contribution to the delivery of electoral events and day-to-day operations through an improved maturity of AEC’s systems.
The candidate must hold an active Negative Vetting Level 1 security clearance prior to commencement.
Key duties
This role is responsible for designing, implementing, automating, and supporting Azure cloud services and platforms to ensure the secure, reliable, and efficient delivery of technology services. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Design, develop, implement, and maintain Azure cloud infrastructure and platform services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices, ensuring alignment with business, security, and operational requirements.
Collaborate with infrastructure, cyber security, application development, and architecture teams to deliver cloud-native and hybrid solutions, while investigating and resolving complex Azure platform and automation-related issues.
Develop, maintain, and enhance cloud automation capabilities using tools such as Azure Bicep, ARM templates, Terraform, PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Azure DevOps to improve platform provisioning, configuration management, and operational efficiency.
Design, implement, and support CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices to enable the automated build, testing, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud services and applications.
Monitor, optimise, and maintain Azure resources, ensuring platform performance, availability, scalability, security, and cost efficiency through proactive management and continuous improvement.
Produce and maintain high-quality technical documentation, including solution designs, operational procedures, automation standards, and architecture artefacts, ensuring knowledge is captured and shared effectively.
Support the uplift of cloud governance, security, compliance, and operational best practices, including identity management, monitoring, backup, recovery, and resilience capabilities within the Azure environment.
Contribute to the provision of on-call support for cloud and infrastructure services, participating in incident response, problem management, and service restoration activities as required.
Perform additional duties and undertake other responsibilities consistent with the classification and operational requirements of the organisation.
Requirements
Criteria
The buyer has specified that each candidate must provide a one page pitch to address all criteria specified. This is equal to 5000 characters.
Essential
Demonstrated experience working within IT Infrastructure working in hybrid cloud and on-premise environments and experience in virtualization, cloud computing, and storage technologies.
Extensive experience designing, deploying and supporting Azure cloud and hybrid infrastructure environments, including automation, identity, networking and platform services
Demonstrated ability to build and maintain effective working relationships across all levels and manager key stakeholders.
Demonstrated knowledge and experience in deploying, testing, and maintaining an enterprise sized ICT environment.
Demonstrated knowledge of risk management principles and processes in context of security patch management and infrastructure management.
Demonstrated experience in the development and maintenance of DevOps continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipelines.
Desirable
Proven understanding of ITIL, TOGAF concepts with a focus on Incident, Problem and Change Management and knowledge of the Commonwealth frameworks, including the PSPF and ISM.
Microsoft Azure certifications, such as Azure Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect, or Azure DevOps Engineer.
Knowledge of Australian Government security frameworks, including the ISM, PSPF and Essential Eight.
Experience with cloud governance, monitoring, security and operational tooling, including Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Microsoft Sentinel or related technologies.
Apply for this role
Share your contact details and any supporting information you would like us to consider. A resume is optional. If there is a fit, we will be in touch to discuss the role further.
If there is mutual interest, we will talk you through the rate structure and next steps in more detail.