Senior Cloud Engineer

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NTT DATA is looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to join our managed services team on a permanent role.

As a Senior Cloud Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of systems and infrastructure. You will work closely with development teams, operations teams, and other stakeholders to enhance system resiliency, automate processes, and improve overall system reliability.

This role is based in Canberra, ACT and supports Federal Government client environments, requiring an Australian Citizen with AGSVA NV1 Security Clearance.

This role is open to candidates outside of the ACT who are willing to relocate to Canberra.

Key responsibilities

In this role you will be working within a multi-disciplinary team and will be responsible for providing the following deliverables including but not limited to:

• Deliver cloud development activities working with relevant stakeholders and technical resources – both internal and external.

• Interacts with clients on site to meet more complex requirements of a solution.

• Escalates unresolved problems and issues to the Technical Lead and relevant third parties.

• Mentor and coach other engineers to foster knowledge sharing, skill development, and best practice adoption across the team.

• Writes reports and proposals and complete and maintain project documentation.

• Included in complex design work, with input to the design expected.

• Expected to take ownership of relevant technologies according to domain or specialization.

• Maintains and develops Infrastructure as Code for a range of different systems.

• Supports Java applications running in a Linux environment.

• Performance Tuning.

• Works in a diverse team across a wide range of different technologies and systems.

• Automates processes and building self service capabilities.

• Delivers and builds services and technologies including but not limited to Microsoft Azure.

• Periodically collaborates to develop and implement operational improvements.

• Leverages experience with cloud native tools to review metrics and monitor the health/utilisation of agency’s cloud services. ITQSB certification highly desirable.

• Maintains skills and contemporary practice in the applicable technology stack.

To thrive in this role, you need to have

This role is based in Canberra, ACT and supports Federal Government client environments, requiring an Australian Citizen with AGSVA NV1 Security Clearance.

Across the business, the standout common characteristics across our teams is that we’re approachable, supportive and have a can-do attitude. In addition to this, you will be a good fit for the role if you bring: 

Mandatory Skills / experience

• Demonstrated practical experience, and understanding of Cloud Implementations, Microsoft Azure PROTECTED cloud environments is mandatory.

• ElasticSearch experience.

• Experience with scripting languages such as PowerShell

• Troubleshooting Java applications in a Linux environment or Java Development experience.

• Experience creating & maintaining automated deployments.

• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (preferably Ansible and ARM)

• Ability to work full time from client premises in Canberra.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.

• Relevant certifications, such as AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer, or Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) preferred.

Desirable Skills / Experience

Experience mentoring team members is desirable.

Knowledge of the products in some of the following technology stack:

Azure Bicep, Terraform, HBase/HDFS (HDInsight), Neo4j, Kafka, NiFi, Kibana, Logstash, GraphQL, Redis, WSO2 Identity Server (or similar), WSO2 API Manager (or similar), PostgreSQL (or similar), React (or similar), Java springboot. Azure big data services, Azure AD/ADFS, Azure API Manager, Azure CosmosDB.

Some of the benefits of working with NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a Global and Australian Top Employer and holds Family Friendly Workplace accreditation. We believe in bringing out the best in you by providing an environment and flexibility that enables you to thrive at work and at home.

As part of the NTT DATA family, here is a small sample of the benefits you will enjoy:

• Leave options that allow you to contribute to your community, study, or just take time to recharge.

• A parental leave policy that supports parents and carers.

• Income protection insurance 

• A comprehensive wellbeing program and associated benefits

• Employee discounts with a large range of retailers and service providers

Workplace type:

On-site Working

About NTT DATA
NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune

Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through

responsible innovation. We are one of the world’s leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with

unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and

application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move

confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more

than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as

established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each

year in R&D.

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