Cloud Engineer

Cloud Engineer

• $137,963.00 per annum + 12% superannuation
• Full time, ongoing opportunity
• Wadawurrung/Geelong based role (hybrid work from home – 3 days a week in office)

About the opportunity

As a Cloud Engineer, you will work in partnership with our Managed Service Provider to design, deploy, and operate secure, reliable, and highly available cloud infrastructure. You’ll play a key role as a subject matter expert across cloud platforms, infrastructure-as-code, and supporting toolsets, helping to enable effective and efficient technology operations.

Collaborating closely with internal technology teams and external vendors, you will contribute to the delivery of stable, scalable solutions that underpin business-critical services. This role provides broad exposure to AWS cloud technologies and offers the opportunity to drive continuous improvement while supporting the evolution of our platform capabilities and future initiatives. The role will suit applicants who will enjoy delivering to both BAU requirements and impactful project work.

Key accountabilities

• Provides technical expertise to enable the correct application of operational procedures. Utilises infrastructure management tools to monitor performance statistics. Contributes to the planning and implementation of maintenance and installation activities, including the build and configuration of infrastructure components in virtualised environments.
• Implements agreed infrastructure changes and maintenance routines, and configures automation tools to support provisioning, testing and deployment. Identifies operational problems and contributes to their resolution in line with agreed standards and procedures.
• Provides reports and recommendations for improvement and engages with stakeholders.
• Monitors digital and automated service channels, analysing performance data. Supports the development and application of service standards to resolve or escalate issues, and provides technical briefings to staff.
• Develops and implements plans for complex changes, assessing risks to services integrity. Delivers approved changes, reviews outcomes, and recommends improvements to change management practices.
• Monitors service component capacity and initiates actions to resolve any shortfalls in line with agreed procedures. Applies demand management techniques to optimise resource utilisation and supports capacity modelling, planning and design.

Please ensure you review the Position Description here for additional information on accountabilities for this role.

About you

You will be an experienced Cloud Engineer with a customer centric approach, having worked within a large, complex technical organisation.

In addition you will have highly developed organisational skills with the ability to work autonomously, prioritise tasks, work accurately with attention to detail, and meet deadlines.

Your strengths will also include your highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, along with your ability to manage expectations, resolve conflict and translate technical information into business language.

Additionally, you will possess the following skills and experience:

• Demonstrated experience developing and supporting enterprise AWS Cloud Platforms.
• Extensive experience deploying and supporting DevOps technologies such as Jenkins, Cloud Formation, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Experience with migrating application workloads from on premise to AWS.
• Ability to understand complex technical integrations and to work with external vendors and internal resolver groups to achieve an outcome.
• Good understanding of ITIL processes such as Change Control, Incident Management, Problem Management and Service Transition.

Working with us

At WorkSafe, our goal is for every employee to feel connected, safe, and valued within their team, for teams to feel appreciated in the workplace, and for WorkSafe to be respected in the community.

We believe that a diverse workforce is essential for delivering the best outcomes for the Victorian community. We strongly encourage applications from all individuals, including First Nations people, people with disabilities, those from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and individuals of all sexualities and genders.

What’s next?

Applications close 11:00pm, Monday 15th June 2026. Click the link to apply, and join us in making a difference to Victorian lives.

Only applications submitted via the WorkSafe Careers website will be considered.

Preferred candidates will be required to satisfactorily complete a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and/or other checks as required for the position as part of the recruitment process.

Eligibility for ongoing employment with WorkSafe Victoria requires Australian or New Zealand citizenship or permanent residency.

Due to the volume of applications received, individualised feedback will only be provided to candidates who progress to interview stage.

To ensure a fair and open recruitment process, we request that you complete your written application and any online interviews without the use of AI tools. We want to understand your professional skills, experience and capabilities. We acknowledge that candidates may choose to use AI as part of background research.

For further enquiries please contact Talent Acquisition Specialist David Heaney via email ***email_hidden***