About us
We’re proud to be Australia's #1 Technology Great Place to Work 2025 for the second year running! This is in addition to being Great Place to Work Certified 2024. We've also won the 2024 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award globally!
Macquarie Cloud Services are the Australian specialists in cloud services for business and government. Locally owned and operated, with an industry-leading customer service model, we’re trusted by our customers to provide the services that enable their business success.
We have made it our challenge to make our people feel good and love the work they do. Because of this, our people are energised and motivated in their work.
We believe that collaboration & team connection is key for success. This role will be based in Sydney with a blended working arrangement of 3 days in our CBD offices & the remaining working from home. #LI-Hybrid
The Opportunity
Be part of a new and growing capability at Macquarie Cloud Services, where you’ll help build and define our approach from the very beginning. Join a passionate team committed to advancing innovation and automation, consistently delivering outstanding results for our customers. Continuously learn and be challenged as you solve problems.
In this role, you’ll deliver dependable cloud projects with a strong focus on automation, ensuring solutions are repeatable, scalable and aligned to customer requirements. Your automation efforts will encompass the provisioning and configuration of Azure resources including: virtual machines, networking, storage, security policies, and identity management using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Bicep and Terraform.
You will predominantly fit within the following categories: Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Microsoft Azure, Data & AI, Identity Management.
You’ll bridge the gap between software development and IT operations by designing, building, and automating Azure environments through code. Working in an agile environment, you’ll deliver continuous improvements that enhance reliability and align with customer goals and the Azure Well-Architected Framework. Your work will help customers modernise their cloud operations by streamlining environment setup, monitoring, and ongoing management through robust automation.
You’ll also strengthen our internal capability by improving knowledge bases, runbooks, and delivery templates to drive faster, more consistent outcomes across Macquarie Cloud Services.
If you’re passionate about automation, cloud innovation, and making a real impact this is a great opportunity to join Australia’s number one MSP. You will get exposure to cutting-edge cloud automation and data projects.
Why Us?
- We have been awarded Australia's #1 Great Place to Work 2025 for the second year running!
- We're Great Place to Work Certified 2024 and 2025.
- We have been named a Global Winner of the 2024 Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award!
- We're the #1 Managed Services Cloud business in Australia.
- We have the highest Net Promoter Score on the ASX, the World's best customer experience & crowned in 2020 at the World Communications Awards.
- You’ll make an impact: Enjoy being part of a driven team with a collaborative culture that values decision-makers and action.
- We Invest in you: Accelerate your career through our learning and development opportunities - think Gallup strengths-based training, defined career pathways and fantastic internal mobility opportunities across the group.
What you'll be doing
- Bring your deep knowledge of the Azure cloud platform and its services.
- Automate through Infrastructure as Code and supplement with scripting to achieve outcomes.
- Meet regularly with your assigned customers and the broader Macquarie operational team, manage the backlog, execute tasks and track your time.
- Take a site-reliability mindset in implementing well-architected solutions for customers using an automation-first mindset ensuring those solutions are governed, scalable and efficient.
- Integrate IaC and scripting solutions into DevOps pipelines to provide customers with a repeatable outcome.
- Maintain the operations manual for customers including clean documentation for delivered solutions.
- Work with the Product & Architecture team to fine-tune intellectual property, iterate and mature our internal knowledge base, work instructions, project and delivery artefacts.
- Contribute to our common IaC library for use in customer projects.
- Leverage and integrate AI as part of delivered solutions.
Required Experience and Skills
- 5 - 10 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps, or Cloud Automation roles.
- 5+ years delivering IaaS and PaaS solutions in Microsoft Azure, including virtual machines, virtual networking, storage and associated end to end service architecture including experience migrating workloads between different cloud destinations.
- 2 - 3 years of experience building Infrastructure as Code for cloud-based solutions, proficient with Git and CI/CD in GitHub Actions & Azure DevOps.
- Demonstrable experience performing on-premises to Azure migrations leveraging native Azure or 3rd party tooling
- Hands-on experience with Databases, data lakes, data pipeline development in Python
- Strong Documentation skills and the ability to write clear Work Instructions for other engineers to follow.
- Strong experience in Python, PowerShell scripting and Azure Resource Manager template experience.
- Highly -desirable: Experience with Azure Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, and data pipeline development.
Azure and other Technical Skills required
- Compute: Virtual Machines (Windows & Linux), Virtual Machine Scale Sets, App Services, Web Apps, Function Apps, Logic Apps, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Arc.
- Networking: Application Gateway, Azure Bastion, DDoS Protection, Azure DNS, Azure ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Azure Front Door, Content Delivery Network, Azure Private Link, Load Balancer, Network Security Groups, Traffic Manager, VPN Gateway, Virtual Network, Virtual WAN, Web Application Firewall (WAF), Network Watcher.
- Storage: Storage Accounts, Storage Explorer, Archive Storage, Azure Backup, Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files, Blob Storage, Disk Storage, Managed Disks, Queue Storage, Table Storage.
- Identity: Entra ID, AAD Connect, Entra Domain Services (AADDS).
- Management and Governance: Automation, Azure Advisor, Azure Blueprints, Azure Monitor, Azure Policy, ARM & Templates, Azure Service Health, Azure Site Recovery, Cloud Shell.
- Integration: API Management.
- Migration: Azure Migrate, Azure Database Migration Service.
- Security: Key Vault, Security Center.
- Database: SQL Server on VMs, Azure Cache for Redis, Azure SQL Database, Azure Database for MySQL, PostgreSQL.
- Data & AI: Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Services, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse Analytics.
- Scripting & Automation: PowerShell, Terraform (Desired), Bicep (Optional – willing to learn), Git, Common CI/CD platforms.
- Operating Systems: Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Server operating systems, MCSE certified 2003/8 or higher. Strong Unix / Linux knowledge.
- Broad Technical Knowledge: Advanced knowledge of DNS, Mail and WWW services.
- Agile tools: Jira, Azure DevOps, GitHub Issues, ServiceNow.
- Software development: An understanding of application deployment methodologies for common programming languages: .NET Core (C#), Python, Java.
If this excites you, apply now, we'd love to hear from you!
