Cloud Engineer, Azure

• Full-time, Continuing position
• Salary Level HEW 8 + 17% Superannuation and Flexible Working Arrangements
• Based at the Melbourne CBD campus, but may be required to work and/or be based at other campuses of the University

About You

The Cloud Engineer – Azure will require Cloud skills that demonstrate strong expertise in Azure. They will be a Subject Matter expert in an Azure platform (Landing zone) and expert knowledge in other Azure services.

You will be responsible for the strategy, roadmap, cost optimisation, security, and development of the Azure platform at RMIT, ensuring it exceeds industry best practices and acts as a beacon of well management to other areas.

The individual will have strong DevOps skills and experience in managing, maintaining and developing CI/CD pipelines to manage the Azure platform.

The role will also be a mentor to Senior Cloud Engineers and Cloud Engineers in Azure platform and operations.

To be successful in this position, you’ll have as a minimum:

• Track record of successfully leading the support and management of an Azure Platform in large environments, developing security, network, and account patterns.
• Experience taking ownership of a customer request/project from ideation to deliver technologically innovative solutions ensuring customer needs and operationalisation are achieved.
• Ability to work cooperatively within a team, mentoring other cloud engineers in continual improvement of the Azure platform.
• Project planning and management skills with the ability to work to a fixed time frame and effectively deliver outcomes that meet stakeholder requirements under critical time and budget constraints.
• Demonstrated experience in Azure solution design development and expert of cloud Security best practices and architecture principles.
• Demonstrated experience and expert knowledge in Azure services to build, design and implement an Azure platform – Landing Zone, Management Groups, Gateway services, Azure Networking, permissions, CI/CD, and Security Services.
• Strong experience in maintain and implementing CI/CD pipelines, delivering solutions as Infrastructure as Code (Azure DevOps, Terraform etc.).
• Expert knowledge and experience in supplementary technologies such as server infrastructure, operating systems, networking, virtualisation (VMWare), and cloud computing.
• Strong knowledge and demonstrated experience in leading Agile, and DevOps practices. Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations, and alerts.
• Experience in solution design and delivery with Education, Teaching and/or Research and Innovation preferred but not essential.

Please Note: Appointment to this position is subject to passing a Working with Children and National Police Check.

About the Portfolio

The Operations Portfolio enables an integrated, enterprise-wide delivery for best practice student and staff experiences.

The Portfolio incorporates the following business units: Enterprise Projects and Business Performance (EPBP), Communications, People, Information Technology Services (ITS), Office of the Chief Operating Officer, Procurement and Vietnam Operations.

The Portfolio houses significant drivers and delivery components across the staff and students journeys and enables the overall experience for both groups. The Portfolio is integral in bringing the RMIT strategy to life, across the globe. Each of these functions supports the global operations of the University both directly as well as through its controlled entities.

The Information Technology Services (ITS) function, provides RMIT University with current and emerging Technology systems and services. Our vision of “unleashing technologies to enable great experiences for RMIT communities” supports a proactive and leading-edge technology ecosystem, mindset and delivery empowering the advancement of the University’s commitment to advancing Lifelong Learners.

Information Technology is of increasing importance to the research, teaching and learning life of a university, particularly a ‘global university of technology and design’ like RMIT. ITS has developed, in conjunction with the broader University, an ICT Plan to 2020. This plan highlights five goals for ICT within RMIT.

They include:

• Best in class digital student experience – Invest in new technologies which transform the student experience and underpin the digital strategy.
• Innovative and efficient Service Integrator – Reposition the ICT function to source and manage services more efficiently and to focus on business outcomes through innovation.
• Elegant global service experience and systems – Move to single global systems and processes which enable the global operating model.
• Data to fuel differentiation and decisions – Ensure quality data and integrated systems are available to support data-based decision making, and enable personalised and contextualised services .
• Simple and secure technology foundations – Ensure foundation technology is simplified, free of duplication, and secure.

ITS has an essential role to play in realising these goals.

Website: www.rmit.edu.au/its

To Apply 

Please submit your CV and covering letter addressing the Key Selection Criteria for this position by clicking on the ‘Apply’ link at the top of this page.

For further information about this position, please see the Position Description hyperlinked below.

Position Description - Cloud Engineer - Azure

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Applications Close:
29 Apr 2024 11.59 pm

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