The Opportunity
We are looking for a Cloud Engineer to support the day-to-day operation, monitoring, maintenance and reliability of Climate Friendly’s Azure platform. Sitting within our Technology Hub, this role helps ensure our cloud services are monitored, incidents are responded to promptly, operational tasks are completed effectively, and platform documentation and runbooks remain current.
About the Role
Reporting to the Azure Solutions Architect, the Cloud Engineer will support Azure services across compute, storage, networking, backups and platform health. You will respond to alerts and service issues, execute approved infrastructure changes, support patching and vulnerability remediation, and help maintain documentation, operational procedures, runbooks and support guides. In this role, you will support the operation, monitoring, maintenance and reliability of the Azure platform, working with documented processes, change controls and operational runbooks. You will also escalate risks, technical issues and architecture-related decisions to the Azure Solutions Architect.
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor Azure services including compute, storage, networking, backups and platform health.
- Respond to Azure alerts, incidents, service issues and operational requests.
- Execute approved infrastructure changes in line with change management processes.
- Support patching, vulnerability remediation and operational security activities.
- Assist with Defender for Cloud recommendations and secure score improvement actions.
- Support backup monitoring, recovery validation and disaster recovery testing.
- Administer RBAC and access controls in accordance with approved access processes.
- Assist with automation, scripting and Infrastructure as Code activities where required.
- Maintain Azure documentation, operational procedures, runbooks and support guides.
- Support investigation of recurring issues and contribute to problem management activities.
- Escalate risks, technical issues and architecture-related decisions to the Azure Solutions Architect.
About You
- 2–4 years’ experience in infrastructure, cloud operations or related technical support roles.
- Practical exposure to Microsoft Azure services.
- Understanding of core Azure services including virtual machines, storage accounts, networking, monitoring and identity.
- Basic understanding of networking concepts including DNS, routing, firewalls, VNets, subnets and private connectivity.
- Basic understanding of identity and access management, including Azure RBAC and Entra ID.
- Experience responding to incidents, alerts and operational support requests.
- Scripting fundamentals using PowerShell, Azure CLI or similar tools.
- Ability to follow documented processes, change controls and operational runbooks.
- Strong documentation, troubleshooting and communication skills.
Desirable
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or equivalent experience.
- ITIL Foundation or practical experience working within incident, change and problem management processes.
- Exposure to Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Bicep.
- Exposure to Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Defender for Cloud, Backup Centre and Azure Policy.
- Experience working in a governed Azure Landing Zone environment.
About Climate Friendly
Acting to combat climate change is one of the world’s most pressing challenges. Climate Friendly was founded in 2003 as a profit-for-purpose business. Our growing team is passionate about active land management, and we are focused on finding economically viable solutions to maximise our impact on climate change.
We are one of Australia’s largest and most experienced carbon farming project developers. This includes more than 190 projects with farmers, plantation managers, agribusiness, and Indigenous groups on carbon farming projects.
Why Join Our Team?
We support wholeness, lifestyle and wellbeing whilst rewarding individual and collective performance. In addition to competitive salary our benefits include:
- Work with purpose, contributing to a productive, sustainable land sector that contributes to a zero net emissions and nature positive Australia by 2050
- A hybrid workplace – work to your own rhythm and balance connection and productivity
- A supportive and inclusive environment that promotes diversity
- 2 all staff events a year to connect with your friends and colleagues
- Christmas holiday – 3 days of additional leave each year
- Floating public holidays
- Gender neutral paid parental leave
- 2 days each year for training / development / study leave
How to Apply
If this role sounds like a good fit for you, please submit your application with a cover letter addressing the key selection criteria. Once your application is submitted through Seek, you will be required to answer screening questions to progress your application.
Candidates will be assessed on a rolling basis with a closing date of 14 August or earlier if a suitable candidate is found.
