Senior Cloud Engineering

Summary (Key Skills & Role):

·                Authoring and deploying PowerShell DSC configurations for VM baseline enforcement;  onboarding target VMs to Azure Automation State Configuration; drift detection, remediation and compliance reporting

·                Azure Policy: Design and assignment of custom and built-in policy definitions across target subscriptions; remediation task configuration for non-compliant resources; policy exemption governance and documentation.

·                Stakeholder engagement to map integration points, upstream/downstream dependencies, and any SLA or latency sensitivities that may influence the remediation approach

·                Terraform: Design and build of Terraform modules for approved Azure resource types; state file management via Azure Storage backend; integration with existing naming conventions, tagging standards, and landing zone patterns

·                Automation of all remediation changes using Terraform, with deployment orchestrated through Azure DevOps pipelines.

·                Testing and validation of each remediated service to confirm connectivity, expected behavior, and firewall rule compliance post-change

·                Documentation of the final-state architecture, DSC changes, design revision and runbooks for ongoing operational support

·                Handover and knowledge transfer to the AustralianSuper Cloud Services team 

                    •          Develop standards, engineering patterns, DevOps policies and IaC modules.

•          Set the standard approach project engineering teams will take in their infrastructure delivery work.

•          Develop, deploy, and configure workloads to Microsoft Azure using Terraform in a DevOps environment.

•          Develop solution, detailed and functional design documents, ensuring designs are prepared in accordance with standards and guidelines.

•          Develop, implement, and maintain monitoring and observability tools for managed environments.

•          Engage in hands-on development to balance workload or address significant complexity through technical spike: build, test including non-functional areas like security, reliability, and performance.

•          Review technical detail designs and ensure technical designs meet functional, resilience, security, reuse, and operational needs

•          Collaborate with project/ BAU teams including architects, delivery squads, principal engineers, and project managers to meet the project technology and delivery objectives

•          Design technology solutions to automate existing processes using DevOps.

•          Contribute towards the Fund’s central knowledge repository for design models and patterns.

•          Provide technical leadership and ensure alignment of cloud solutions to target architecture, standards, and best practices.

•          Collaborate with other technology teams, assisting with the demands of operations as required, and empowering teams to enable reliability, resilience, and supportability of platforms