Principal Cloud Engineer - 2 Year FTC

• 2-Year Fixed Term Contract
• Hybrid Work Environment
• Central Sydney Location

At the RBA, Platform Engineering is key to automating the way in which we manage technology lifecycles. The IT Platform Engineering team maintains solutions spanning Cloud, CI/CD, DevOps, Infrastructure as Code, and automation services. We are focused on supporting the Bank's journey to adopt Cloud and Infrastructure as Code, technology automation, and maturing platform capabilities whilst also evaluating and onboarding new technologies to ensure technology solutions remain relevant, robust, and secure.

About the role

• Provide technical leadership with a focus on Cloud and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) leveraging PaaS, IaaS, CaaS, DevOps Toolchains and CI/CD pipelines for delivering automated solutions
• Provide solution design consultation and delivery to meet application, platform, and data availability, security, resilience, and functional requirements
• Define and implement Cloud related frameworks, guardrails, and controls ensuring solutions and processes are consistent, optimised, and comply with relevant IT service acceptance criteria, policies and standards of the Bank
• Ensure Cloud solutions align to the Microsoft Well Architected Framework and associated best practices
• Mentor other staff to increase the knowledge across the Platform Engineering team
• Collaborate with others on solution principles, consumption patterns, risk, security and audit assessments, and oversee solution implementation to a run steady-state
• Work with technologists and managers to meet delivery milestones, managing risk and providing technical quality assurance
• Ensure project solutions meet defined service acceptance criteria
• Provide project to BAU handover and hypercare support
• Identify and implement standard practices including unit testing and release management across Cloud services
• Deliver solution documentation, operational assessments, and review technical documentation created by internal and external teams
• Present at meetings to peers and senior stakeholders to inform and educate on Platform Engineering subjects ensuring the content is appropriate for the audience

About you

• You have at least 10 years experience in IT infrastructure, with at least 4 years hands-on experience as a subject matter expert in Cloud
• Your last 3 years experience is in a lead or principal capacity within Cloud
• You are experienced in solutioning aligned to the Microsoft Well Architected Framework
• You are a confident and excellent written and verbal communicator with leadership qualities
• You have a mindset that challenges through intelligent enquiry, yet accepts some things can't change
• You look to complete tasks the right way, not necessarily the fastest or easiest way
• You are innovative, creative, and enthusiastic about your subject matter

Skills & Expertise required

• Must have experience in a technical leadership or principal role, preferably in Banking and Government
• Must have extensive experience designing, building, and managing Azure Cloud, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and CI/CD solutions
• Experience mentoring people to build skills within a team
• Excellent technical documentation and communication skills with peers, vendors, and senior leadership
• Experience in developing and maintaining relationships with internal customers and stakeholders
• Experience with Agile methodologies
• Knowledge of DevOps, DevSecOps, automation, orchestration, and configuration management products

Be More

Working for an organisation that truly makes a difference to the people of Australia, we can offer development and career opportunities in a collaborative environment that supports your growth, wellbeing and promotes flexibility. Your individual growth and success drives the RBA forward as an organisation. Be more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.

Why RBA?

The RBA makes an important contribution to the Australian economy through the pursuit of national economic policy objectives and associated activities in financial markets and banking. We also issue Australia's banknotes and operate infrastructure critical to the payments system, all of which contribute to the welfare of the Australian people. Made up of specialists across a wide range of fields, our people, values, and culture play a critical role in achieving our objectives. Striving to be Open & Dynamic, we consider and incorporate different perspectives, work across teams and are transparent with each other, whilst delivering quality together effectively and focusing on outcomes by prioritising, testing, learning, and refining as we go. Our people conduct themselves with a high degree of integrity, while striving for excellence in the work they perform and the outcomes they achieve. We encourage intelligent inquiry and we treat one another with respect while promoting the public interest through our efforts. We know it is the growth and success of our people that drives the RBA forward. Come and make a bigger contribution while you build and develop your own skills too, because being more means you can do more, for yourself and for Australia.
The Reserve Bank of Australia is committed to equity, diversity and inclusion through key initiatives. We welcome and encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse background, those living with a disability and from the LGBTQ+ community. We are committed to making the recruitment process fair and equitable for all our candidates.

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