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Better and fairer care. Always.

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

Job Description:

Better and fairer care. Always.

St Vincent's has been a leader in Australia's health and aged care landscape for more than 165 years. Since our founders, the Sisters of Charity, opened our first hospital in 1857, our services and nearly 30,000 people have been behind some of Australia's most important medical breakthroughs. We are a microcosm of Australia's health and aged care system and are uniquely positioned to lead and respond to our rapidly changing environment.

We are looking for a special kind of person - a St Vincent's kind of person. Someone who puts excellence, compassion, connection and caring for other people at the heart of everything they do.

Reporting directly to the Cloud Operations Manager, the Senior Cloud Engineer will be responsible for the delivery, performance, and reliability of St Vincent's Azure and hybrid cloud environments. You will play a critical part in ensuring the availability, security, and scalability of core cloud infrastructure and services across Tier 0 platforms. This position supports day-to-day operations of St Vincent's enterprise cloud platform, delivering infrastructure-as-code (IaC), patching, monitoring, and incident response capabilities. You will work closely with cybersecurity, networking, and application teams to uphold best practice standards, support automation initiatives, and implement secure and resilient workloads.

This is a Permanent Full-Time position based in any of our Group Head Offices in Sydney, Brisbane or Melbourne on a hybrid working arrangement – 3 days a week in office and 2 days working from home. In this role, there will be a requirement to work on-call and after hours as needed.

Key responsibilities of the role:

• Serve as a key escalation point for major incidents and platform outages, leading system patching, vulnerability remediation, and platform lifecycle activities
• Take ownership of Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) deployments and maintenance, using tools like Terraform, Bicep, and Azure DevOps to lead automation and operational support
• Deliver secure, scalable, and high-performance compute, storage, and backup services aligned with clinical, cybersecurity, and resilience requirements
• Play a role in shaping the cloud infrastructure strategy and future-state design, assisting with cloud migration, workload modernisation, and integrating new technologies
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including cybersecurity, network, and application teams, while providing technical leadership and mentoring to other cloud engineers
• Implement security controls in alignment with Essential Eight and ISO27001, and maintain observability using Azure Monitor and Log Analytics
• Participate in the after-hours on-call roster, ensuring timely resolution of high-priority incidents that affect clinical systems and supporting the resilience of life-critical platforms
  
  

Things that work for us:

• Experience as a senior technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) managing Microsoft Azure cloud environments, including compute storage, networking, databases, identity, and security
• Advanced expertise in Terraform, Bicep, ARM templates, and Azure DevOps for IaC, CI/CD, and platform automation. Scripting proficiency in PowerShell, Azure CLI, and Bash
• Strong working knowledge of Azure security frameworks (RBAC, PIM, Conditional Access, Defender, Sentinel), aligned to ISO27001, Essential Eight, and other compliance standards
• Deep technical experience with Azure networking, and proficiency in monitoring and cost optimisation using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Budgets, and Advisor
• Extensive involvement in cloud migrations, platform modernisation, hybrid environments, and legacy workload transformation
• Effective stakeholder engagement across cybersecurity, infrastructure, and application domains and the ability to lead initiatives across complex enterprise environments
• Bachelor's degree in information technology, computer science, or engineering and ITIL v4 Foundation certification, and certifications such as: Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104), Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate
  
  

Things that work for you:

• Ability to visibly see your impact on the business and its service
• Competitive salary packaging options
• Discounted private health insurance
• Employee Assistance Program for staff and their families
• Access to the Fitness Passport (FP)
  
  

At St Vincent's we value inclusivity and diversity and acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, fair and impartial and invites people from all backgrounds to join us.

Pre-Employment Checks

Your employment is conditional upon the completion of all required pre-employment checks, including relevant immunisations.

Equal Opportunity

We celebrate diversity & inclusion and are committed to equal employment opportunity for everyone.

How To Apply

Please submit your application via the Apply button, include your resume and a brief cover letter outlining your experience and suitability.

Please note - we will be progressing applications throughout the advertising period. Respectfully, no recruitment agencies.

Closing Date:

28 August 2025 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

View Reconciliation Action Plan

Code of Conduct:

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• Seniority levelMid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment typeFull-time

Job function

• Job functionEngineering and Information Technology
• IndustriesHospitals and Health Care

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