Principal Engineer

The Principal Engineer is a hands-on technical leader who drives the design, build, and optimisation of secure, scalable Microsoft Azure solutions. You'll act as the bridge between our engineering teams and delivery stakeholders, owning architecture, design, and quality to ensure outcomes that meet customer needs and align with industry and Versent standards. As an expert in at least one of our core domains, you'll shape customer transformations, bring thought leadership to complex problems, and deliver modern, future-ready cloud platforms that empower our clients' success.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and deploy scalable, reliable, and secure cloud solutions on Microsoft Azure.

• Design, elaborate and build high quality software and integration workflows using an array of different modern technologies.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and provide technical expertise in designing cloud-based solutions.

• Agile Delivery – Work within an Agile scrum, actively contributing to agile ceremonies and leading when required. Accept story allocated and take full ownership from genesis to completion, providing concise and accurate updates to Principal Consultant, completing story within timeframe to agreed specifications.

• Produce engineering outcomes that meet the teams Ways of Working including all

• documentation, unit testing coverage, code within quality scores, completing acceptance target. Alignment to technology frameworks and processes agreed by the team that are used within the engagement. Refactoring code and paying down tech-debt only within the delivery budget.

Skills Required

• Working experience in cloud-native engineering and modern software engineering practices (DevOps, Automated testing etc.)

• Proficient in Azure services, including but not limited to Virtual Machines, Virtual Networks, Azure Active Directory, App Services, Storage Accounts, and Azure Functions.

• Familiarity with DevOps practices and tools such as Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Experience with infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tools like Azure Resource Manager (ARM) templates, Terraform, or Ansible.

Life at Versent

We're a diverse team of motivated humans who think outside the box and strive to deliver what others might consider impossible. At Versent we truly care about our people and put real focus on cultivating a culture of learning, collaboration and growth.  We provide our teams with the space, trust, and support, to deliver the best work of their careers. To enable this, we have a culture that places a high value on continual feedback, excellence, and invention anchored in customer success.

We also offer our team:

• Flexibility: We give you the freedom to excel, providing as much autonomy and flexibility around when you work so you can manage your time in a way that best suits you to get the job done.

• Learning: We are passionate about continuous improvement and care about you investing in and developing your craft. Our Craft 180 Program is a holistic strategy for ongoing, meaningful skill and capability development with an ultimate goal to create an environment where people can learn and contribute in different ways to develop, practice and become masters of their craft.

• Access to Benefits: If you love to be rewarded, you'll be excited by the scale of offers when you come on board with us. From access to the Telstra My Rewards Platform, to a paid device + plan and salary packaging, there is something for everyone.

• Health & Wellbeing Programmes: We focus on you as a whole person, with wellbeing initiatives that are to support you mentally, physically, emotionally and financially.

• Connection: Regular social activities across your team and the organisation.

• Recognition: We offer several reward & recognition programmes to acknowledge the amazing work that you do

• Career opportunity: We provide the opportunity to work on diverse projects and initiatives that enable you to create a brilliant career.

At Versent, we don't adhere to a one-size-fits-all hiring strategy. We understand that you might not fulfill all the criteria for this position. Our celebration of diverse perspectives isn't just a value, it's a way to gain an edge. If you believe this opportunity is where you can thrive, don't be shy and apply 

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