Senior Cloud Engineer

About Keystart

Keystart is a progressive, innovative, purpose-driven organisation that delivers real social impact by making the dream of an affordable home a reality for more people. We’re proud of our workplace culture, and we prioritise the wellbeing and job satisfaction of our people. We acknowledge and understand the importance of disconnecting from work and believe that our employees have the right to enjoy time off without non-essential work-related interruptions.

About the role

This is a 12-month maximum-term contract.

As our Senior Cloud Engineer, you’ll play a key role in shaping, building and continually improving Keystart’s cloud environment, with a primary focus on Microsoft Azure.

This is a hands-on senior technical role where you’ll lead the design and delivery of secure, scalable and resilient cloud solutions, while helping us continue to mature our cloud capability. You’ll work across cloud architecture, automation and operations, combining deep technical expertise with the ability to solve complex problems and turn business requirements into practical, well-designed solutions.

As a senior member of the Infrastructure team, you’ll also help set technical standards, share your expertise and mentor others, lifting capability across the team while improving the consistency, performance and reliability of our cloud platforms.

What you’ll be responsible for:

Cloud Architecture and Engineering

• Leading the design and delivery of cloud architectures aligned with best practice and business requirements.
• Defining and applying standards across cloud networking, compute, storage, identity and resilience.
• Providing technical leadership for complex cloud migrations and modernisation initiatives.
• Working with project teams and stakeholders to translate requirements into practical cloud solutions.

Automation and Platform Improvement

• Leading the adoption and ongoing development of infrastructure-as-code and automation frameworks.
• Identifying opportunities to improve platform consistency, scalability and deployment speed.
• Driving improvements in cloud availability, performance and resilience.
• Contributing to the ongoing evolution and maturity of Keystart’s cloud and infrastructure environment.

Cloud Operations and Optimisation

• Acting as a senior escalation point for complex cloud and infrastructure issues.
• Ensuring effective monitoring, alerting and observability across cloud platforms.
• Leading cloud cost management and optimisation, providing visibility of cloud spend and recommendations to improve efficiency.
• Applying strong troubleshooting and problem-solving capability to maintain secure, reliable and high-performing environments.

Technical Leadership

• Setting and promoting cloud engineering standards and best practices across the team.
• Mentoring and coaching team members to build cloud capability and confidence.
• Sharing technical knowledge and helping the team solve complex engineering challenges.
• Contributing technical expertise and insight to strategic planning for the future evolution of Keystart’s cloud and infrastructure platforms.

About You

You’re an experienced cloud engineer who enjoys being close to the technology while also taking a broader view of how cloud platforms should evolve. You’re comfortable tackling complex technical challenges, influencing technical direction and sharing your knowledge with others.

You’ll bring:

• Extensive hands-on experience working with cloud platforms, ideally with deep experience in Microsoft Azure.
• Strong knowledge of cloud architecture, networking, identity and security.
• Proven experience leading or playing a senior technical role in complex cloud migrations, modernisation initiatives or cloud engineering projects.
• Strong troubleshooting, critical thinking and problem-solving capability.
• Experience with scripting, automation and infrastructure-as-code.
• A working knowledge of FinOps principles and cloud cost optimisation.
• The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly and work effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A collaborative approach, with the ability and willingness to mentor others, share knowledge and help lift capability across a team.

Some benefits of working at Keystart

At Keystart, we are more than a workplace, we are a community with purpose. Every day, our people help make the dream of an affordable home a reality for more Western Australians.

What makes Keystart unique is our culture of trust, inclusion, and genuine care. We believe that when our people thrive, our customers and communities do too.

We offer meaningful work with real impact, flexibility, and opportunities to grow. Our benefits are designed to support balance, connection, and wellbeing, and include:

• Flexible leave options, including wellbeing and volunteering leave
• Flexible work arrangements including WFH to support balance and connection
• A supportive Social Club and community partnerships with local discounts
• Salary sacrifice and corporate private health options
• A modern Subiaco office close to public transport

At Keystart, your voice matters, your contribution counts, and your purpose helps more people call Western Australia home.

Curious? Like to do things a bit different? Us too!

• If this role sounds like you, and you are excited about the prospect of working for an organisation where you can really make an impact, then great! This role is a real opportunity to become part of a team that excels in delivering exceptional customer outcomes, continuously strives for improvement and has fun doing so.
• Here at Keystart we celebrate and support inclusion, diversity, and engagement. We pride ourselves on our diverse workforce, valuing different perspectives and unique ways of thinking that drive our growth, collaboration, innovation and scalability.
• Keystart always welcomes people from all backgrounds and encourage diversity of age, faith, ability, gender, sexuality and culture, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We are proud of our culturally safe, diverse and inclusive team.

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