Cloud Engineer

We are the company

We are the company. 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives connected by a shared Purpose - 'to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.' It's that Purpose that fuels our ambition to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week.

If you're excited to turn today's blue sky thinking into a better tomorrow for future generations, you'll find yourself supported and enriched in a dynamic, inclusive and empowering workplace that reflects the diverse communities we serve. With a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and opportunities across the group to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.

What you'll do

In the role of Cloud Engineer you will partner with the Product Owner to convert strategic business goals into technically sound backlog items and architectural blueprints, delivering impactful and sustainable engineering outcomes. You will provide technical guidance and mentorship to engineering squads while steering the strategic direction of Hosting PaaS services to maximize scalability and operational performance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Connecting Business and Technology: Serve as the primary technical consultant to the Product Owner-translating complex requirements and architectural designs into clear, prioritized backlog tasks and user stories.


• Evaluating Cloud & AI Services: Analyze Azure and GCP native services-including AI platforms (e.g., Vertex AI, Foundry) and containerized solutions to decide what to enable for the platform, weighing advantages, operational challenges, and security patterns alongside the Technical Architect.


• Building & Upholding Engineering Standards: Lead the hands on development of reusable Terraform modules and platform native governance rules, while guiding cloud engineers to ensure these standards and automation are applied consistently across all environments.


• Establishing Observability & Scalable Operations: Collaborate with the team to define health metrics, logging, and observability requirements, managing performance monitoring and capacity planning to ensure high resilience.


• Fostering Collaborative Impact: Work across engineering teams and cross functional stakeholders to build technical alignment, ensuring cloud choices directly support business goals and deliver customer value.

What you'll bring

You bring a potent combination of advanced cloud proficiency-particularly in Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud-alongside the strategic foresight necessary to guide our PaaS portfolio's growth, maintaining a resilient and pioneering infrastructure.

Core Competencies

• Proven Multi-Cloud Engineering: Deep hands-on experience configuring, securing, and managing enterprise services in Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.


• Terraform Mastery: 5+ years of experience leveraging Terraform to build scalable, production grade cloud infrastructure and platform modules.


• Governance & Security Mindset: Practical experience setting up platform governance (policy engines, IAM, network security patterns) in enterprise environments.


• Observability Expertise: Experience establishing health metrics, alerting patterns, and monitoring specs for cloud services.


• Technical Leadership: Ability to guide and mentor cloud engineers, review code, and bridge the gap between high-level architectural designs and practical execution.


• Collaborative Pragmatism: Experience working with Technical Architects and Product Owners to turn complex requirements into prioritized, deliverable sprints.

What you'll experience

• A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline - with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network


• Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families


• A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you


• Team discounts across our range of the company brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work


• Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc.

Everyone belongs at the company

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team's diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.

See how we're creating better experiences together, for a better tomorrow