Azure Cloud Team Lead
We're seeking an Azure Cloud Lead to oversee critical cloud-hosted services within a complex enterprise environment. You'll lead Azure operations and support for business-critical and customer-facing platforms, ensuring high availability, security, compliance and continuous improvement. Working across engineering, support and stakeholder teams, you'll drive operational excellence, champion automation, mentor engineers and ensure reliable service delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the operational support and management of cloud-hosted platforms and services.
- Drive service reliability, availability and performance across a complex Azure environment.
- Manage incidents, problems and service requests, ensuring timely resolution and continuous improvement.
- Champion automation and operational efficiencies through infrastructure and process optimisation.
- Maintain strong security, governance and compliance standards across cloud platforms.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to support and engineering teams.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, technology teams and third-party vendors to ensure successful service delivery.
- Support platform scalability, capacity planning and operational readiness initiatives.
Skills & Experience
- Extensive experience supporting and managing enterprise Azure environments.
- Strong knowledge of Azure services across IaaS, PaaS and cloud-native technologies.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerisation and microservices architectures.
- Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills, supported by experience with monitoring and observability platforms.
- Proven experience leading technical teams and driving operational excellence.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform, Bicep, Ansible or similar technologies.
- Strong scripting and automation skills using languages such as Python, Bash/Shell or JavaScript.
- Experience with CI/CD pipelines and modern DevOps practices.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication and problem-solving abilities.
- Experience working within Agile and continuous improvement environments.
What's on Offer?
- Opportunity to lead cloud operations within a large-scale enterprise environment.
- Exposure to modern Azure technologies, Kubernetes and cloud-native platforms.
- Collaborative and supportive culture with a strong focus on innovation and continuous improvement.
- Flexible working arrangements and ongoing professional development opportunities.
- Competitive salary package and long-term career growth prospects.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples are encouraged to apply.
To apply please click apply or call Chane Prasongdee on 02 8289 3118 for a confidential discussion.
About the job
Contract Type: Permanent
Specialism: Technology & Digital
Focus: Infrastructure, Cloud & DevOps
Industry: IT
Salary: AUD180,000 - AUD185,000 per annum + + Super + Bonus
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Associate
Location: Sydney CBD
FULL_TIMEJob Reference: EWBM7B-221EC2BD
Date posted: 28 July 2026
Consultant: Chane Prasongdee
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