Cloud Engineer

Description:

Full Job Description

Overview:

• Dynamic Cloud Engineer Azure position available, Full-time permanent position. Based at the Melbourne CBD campus (Hybrid role), and Flexible Working Arrangements

• Ability to work at varying levels of detail.

• Collaborates across ITS and other stakeholders.

About the Portfolio

Information Technology Services (ITS) provides RMIT University with Information and Communication Technology systems and services. Our role is to support RMIT’s high quality teaching, learning, research

and administrative activities.

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.

The Role

The Cloud Engineer Azure will require Cloud skills that demonstrate an expert level of knowledge in Azure. They will need to demonstrate an ability or openness to changing the way IT operates today, with a desire to accelerate business change and remove traditional IT roadblocks.

The role will work closely with the Manager, Cloud Engineering and will be required to work collaboratively with customers throughout the University including within the immediate team. A Cloud Engineer Azure will need to be results orientated and experiment driven; capable of leading an idea from its ideation phase to successful implementation, including planning under SAFe and SCRUM practices, solution design and Implementation using ARM templates or Infrastructure as code. Ensuring outcomes meet Cloud team and RMIT operational standards, are cost effective and most importantly align with customer requirements.

To be able to deliver end to end, the role will also require a solid understanding of supporting services and skills ranging from networking, DNS, authentication systems, monitoring, operating systems, scripting, monitoring, design and documentation.

As a member of the team, responsibilities will also include ensuring the Azure platform is well managed, ensuring the services hosted on the Azure platform is financially optimised, well architected and meets cloud best practices. The individual will be required to embed service management into daily practices, ensure continuous improvement of infrastructure and assist in defining practices, processes and standards while adhering to organisational practices.

You will be required to provide design and consulting capability into projects and minor works. The role will also require facilitation of technical ownership and support transition from projects in a manner conducive to the rapid and innovative way RMIT is now delivering technology.

About You

• Do you strive for excellence?
• Do you love working in a collaborative team environment?
• Do you want to work with people that excel in their fields? RMIT is an industry leader in a wide variety of disciplines and is widely connected to industry?
• Do you want a challenge?
• Do you want to work on a wide variety of projects?
• Do you want to see success?
• Do you want to be part of an organisation that has large support networks and believes in work and life culture?

Skills & Experience

• Track record of successfully leading the provisioning, architecture, management, and maintenance of an Azure Platform in large environments. Experience working on projects, taking lead to deliver technologically innovative solutions ensuring customer needs are achieved.

• Ability to work cooperatively within a team, imparting knowledge and sharing experience with others.

• A Subject matter expert in Azure design, security and networking. Experience managing an Azure landing zone and governing operational health and security of the platform Experience in delivering solutions as Infrastructure as Code (BICEP templates etc.)

• Sound knowledge of server infrastructure, operating systems, networking, virtualisation and cloud computing.

• Experience with Agile, and DevOps concepts Developing monitoring architecture and implementing monitoring agents, dashboards, escalations and alerts.