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Cloud Engineer

Sol Stak PtyAustralian Capital Territory🇦🇺Australia

Why this role stands out

Elevate your career by designing high-impact cloud infrastructure for critical government missions within a collaborative, senior-led team that values purposeful delivery. This role is perfect for a pragmatic engineer who thrives on automation and wants to sharpen their skills across diverse sovereign cloud environments while enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model. Apply today to build foundational platforms that drive real-world success and advance your expertise in a high-growth environment.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationAustralian Capital Territory, Australia
GCPGitAWSEncryptionLoad BalancingAnsibleCloudFormationDNSData PipelineTerraformVMwareWAFAzureKubernetesIAM

Job description

SolStak is looking for a Cloud Engineer to architect and deliver cloud-native infrastructureacross sovereign Australian cloud and hybrid environments. You will enable secure, scalableplatforms for Defence and government mission systems.

What you'll do
  • Design and implement cloud landing zones, networking and core platform services
  • Automate provisioning and configuration with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent tooling
  • Optimise cost, performance and resilience of cloud workloads
  • Embed security controls and compliance requirements into cloud architecture
  • Partner with engineering teams to support migration and modernisation programmes
What we're looking for
  • Experience with AWS, Azure or sovereign cloud providers in enterprise settings
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code and scripting capabilities
  • Pragmatic approach to delivery in regulated environments
  • Minimum two years of proven experience in a relevant role
  • Own GitLab instance and home lab environment (highly desirable)
  • Existing Australian Government security clearance (highly desirable)
  • Industry certifications (highly desirable)
What it feels like to work here

Cloud engineering at SolStak means building foundations that everything else runs on. You'llarchitect landing zones, automate at scale, and see your infrastructure support live missionsystems. The team is small, senior and direct - no ticket queues, no endless meetings, justpurposeful delivery across hybrid sovereign environments.

Why engineers join
  • Design cloud platforms for Defence and government with real operational impact
  • Work across AWS, Azure, GCP and sovereign cloud providers
  • Strong infrastructure-as-code culture with Terraform and automation at the core
  • Collaborate with identity, data and cyber teams on integrated programmes
  • Hybrid flexibility across VIC, NSW and ACT
What technologies you're exposed to

Cloud engineers at SolStak touch every layer of the stack - from hyperscaler services throughto virtualisation, data platforms and security tooling.

  • Cloud-native data services, object storage and analytics integrations
  • Cloudera, Spark and enterprise data pipeline connectivity
  • AWS, Azure, GCP, sovereign cloud and hybrid landing zones
  • Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM/Bicep and infrastructure automation
  • VMware, OpenShift, Kubernetes and serverless compute
  • Networking, load balancing, DNS and core platform services
Security products
  • Cloud security posture, WAF, encryption and key management
  • IAM integration, SIEM connectivity and IRAP-aligned controls

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