Senior Cloud Operations Engineer

Bupa is an international healthcare group which has been committed to a purpose of longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world for more than 70 years. In Australia and New Zealand, Bupa supports more than 5 million customers through a broad range of health and care services including health insurance, aged care, rehabilitation, dental, optical, medical, hearing and medical visa services.

About the opportunity

A great opportunity where you can shape, build and maintain Bupa’s cloud platform management practices to continually optimise for cost, security, performance and availability.

This is a 12-month contract. The preferred location is Melbourne, but you can be based in Sydney or Brisbane.

How can you help?

• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices within across Bupa’s cloud environment, such as:
  • Evangelise and apply good cloud practices such as ‘everything as code’, elasticity and rightsizing, cloud economics and cost minimisation, and designing for measurement in cloud.
  • Collaborate with DevOps and security engineers to embed good practices early in development processes and application build, eg support development of templates, policy and patterns; ‘shift left’.
  • Design and implement cloud operations automation that measures and maintains cloud workload health, such as alerting, logging, scaling, healing and health notifications.
  • Build and maintain Azure DevOps pipelines to deploy and test the above using automation tooling such as PowerShell and Terraform to automate workload deployment, management and remediation activities.
• Support the Cloud Operations team to introduce, maintain and troubleshoot Azure management automation. Examples include:
  • Lead the delivery of elegant, automated processes for change detection, tag healing, alerting, optimisation, garbage collection or other Azure management good practices.
  • Develop standards and configurations for Azure Policies to enforce cost management, compliance, and other Azure management functions.
  • Being a role model to Cloud Operations engineers.
• Consult to a variety of architecture, development and operations teams, including:
  • Identifying opportunities to optimise workloads;
  • Reviewing designs and recommending changes to optimise for cloud; and
  • Supporting project and product teams to modernise & optimise workloads.
• Provide troubleshooting assistance and support service requests.

What do you need?

• Strong experience in deploying, managing or supporting Microsoft Azure workloads at scale.
• Have deep experience with and understanding of the Microsoft technology stack, including on premises, Azure services and directory & identity services at scale.
• Demonstrated experience with contemporary development principles and tooling: ‘everything as code’, version-controlled change, continuous delivery and automated testing.
• Demonstrated skills in PowerShell, Azure Resource Manager, Azure Automation, Active Directory and/or Azure Active directory.
• Demonstrated skill in DevOps and Continuous Delivery including source control, deployment pipelines.
• Experience authoring and modifying, clean self documenting code using an IaC platform such as Terraform
• Ideally, possess certifications in
  • ITIL or Agile and experience in a commercial environment.
  • Relevant recognised specialist industry certification such as Azure Associate or Expert

What’s in it for you?

As well as a competitive salary, a range of Bupa benefits and flexible working/ work from home arrangements, you’ll be challenged and encouraged to innovate. You will partner with colleagues who are dedicated to delivering exceptional experiences

Perk highlights:

• Discount on our health insurance, travel, car, home, contents and pet insurance products
• A dedicated internal wellbeing team provides you with a range of services, such as a global resilience program, regular training opportunities on a range of wellbeing topics and access to a variety of wellbeing discounts.

You will feel happier & healthier for working at Bupa!