Microsoft Cloud Engineering & Operations Manager

Location: Canberra, ACT, au

Job Description

Our Microsoft Cloud, Data & AI team designs, builds and operates secure, scalable cloud platforms that enable rapid delivery of business value. We combine engineering excellence with modern platform practices to provide reliable, cost-effective foundations for data, AI and application workloads. We often work in collaboration with our other specialist teams in Dynamics, Finance and Operations, Security and Cyber. The team is growing quickly, and this role is critical to building the cloud engineering capability that underpins everything we deliver.

Your Opportunity

As a Cloud Engineering & Operations Manager, you are a hands-on engineering leader. You will design and deliver cloud platform components, lead a team of platform engineers through day-to-day delivery, and actively develop junior engineers to grow and succeed. You will work alongside solution architects, data engineers and delivery leads to ensure platforms are built to a high standard and ready to support the workloads that run on them.

Key Responsibilities: 

• Engineer Azure landing zones, networking, identity integrations and platform services to enterprise standards.
• Implement IaC using Terraform or Bicep, and CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps.
• Build secure-by-default patterns including policy as code, secrets management, private networking and zero-trust controls.
• Lead a team of platform engineers with clear ownership and accountability, ensuring delivery of secure, scalable, well-architected cloud environments.
• Enable scalable runtime environments using AKS, App Service and Functions, with automated scaling and blue-green or canary deployment strategies.
• Establish monitoring, logging and alerting using Azure Monitor, Log Analytics and Application Insights.
• Optimise cost and performance through tagging, budgets, rightsizing and FinOps practices.
• Actively explore ways to accelerate delivery - including leveraging AI-assisted development tools and building reusable platform assets.
• Perform code reviews, provide technical coaching, and support junior engineers through pairing and clear feedback.
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks and knowledge sharing across squads.

How are you extraordinary

• You have a builder mindset - you take pride in clean, reliable automation and help others level up.
• You collaborate openly with security, data and application teams to achieve shared outcomes.
• You are pragmatic, balancing engineering best practice with delivery pace.

Your Experience

• Strong expertise across Azure core platform services: networking, VNets, Private Link, identity, Key Vault, Storage, App Service, AKS, Functions, API Management.
• Strong IaC and CI/CD skills: Terraform or Bicep, reusable modules, pipelines, approvals and environment promotion strategies.
• Experience with DevSecOps and compliance automation: Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, role-based access control, package and container security.
• Knowledge of platform reliability practices: SLIs and SLOs, autoscaling, resiliency patterns, chaos testing and cost controls.
• Experience mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews and supporting Agile delivery teams.

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualifications or equivalent industry experience.
• Microsoft certifications in Azure Administrator, DevOps Engineer or Solutions Architect are advantageous.
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Additional Information

KPMG is a professional services firm with global outreach and deep sector experience. We work with clients across an array of industries to solve complex challenges, steer change and enable growth. 

Our people are what make KPMG the thriving workplace that it is and what sets us apart is that we know great minds think differently. Collaborate with a team of passionate, highly skilled professionals who’ve got your back. You’ll build relationships with unique and diverse colleagues who will provide you with the support you need to be your best and produce meaningful and impactful work in an inclusive, equitable culture.

At KPMG, you’ll take control over how you work. We’re embracing a new way of working in many ways, from offering flexible hours and locations to generous paid parental leave and career breaks. Our people enjoy a variety of exciting perks, including retail discounts, health and wellbeing initiatives, learning and growth opportunities, salary packaging options and more.

Diverse candidates have diverse needs. During your recruitment journey, information will be provided about adjustment requests. If you require additional support before submitting your application, please contact the Talent Attraction Support Team.

At KPMG every career is different, and we look forward to seeing how you grow with us.

KPMG Australia: grow with us!