Summary (Key Skills &
Role):
· Authoring and deploying PowerShell DSC
configurations for VM baseline enforcement; onboarding target VMs to
Azure Automation State Configuration; drift detection, remediation and
compliance reporting
· Azure Policy: Design and assignment of
custom and built-in policy definitions across target subscriptions;
remediation task configuration for non-compliant resources; policy exemption
governance and documentation.
· Stakeholder engagement to map integration
points, upstream/downstream dependencies, and any SLA or latency
sensitivities that may influence the remediation approach
· Terraform: Design and build of Terraform
modules for approved Azure resource types; state file management via Azure
Storage backend; integration with existing naming conventions, tagging
standards, and landing zone patterns
· Automation of all remediation changes
using Terraform, with deployment orchestrated through Azure DevOps pipelines.
· Testing and validation of each remediated
service to confirm connectivity, expected behavior, and firewall rule
compliance post-change
· Documentation of the final-state
architecture, DSC changes, design revision and runbooks for ongoing
operational support
· Handover and knowledge transfer to the
AustralianSuper Cloud Services team
• Develop standards,
engineering patterns, DevOps policies and IaC modules.
• Set the standard
approach project engineering teams will take in their infrastructure delivery
work.
• Develop, deploy, and
configure workloads to Microsoft Azure using Terraform in a DevOps
environment.
• Develop solution,
detailed and functional design documents, ensuring designs are prepared in
accordance with standards and guidelines.
• Develop, implement,
and maintain monitoring and observability tools for managed environments.
• Engage in hands-on
development to balance workload or address significant complexity through
technical spike: build, test including non-functional areas like security,
reliability, and performance.
• Review technical
detail designs and ensure technical designs meet functional, resilience,
security, reuse, and operational needs
• Collaborate with
project/ BAU teams including architects, delivery squads, principal
engineers, and project managers to meet the project technology and delivery
objectives
• Design technology
solutions to automate existing processes using DevOps.
• Contribute towards the
Fund’s central knowledge repository for design models and patterns.
• Provide technical
leadership and ensure alignment of cloud solutions to target architecture,
standards, and best practices.
• Collaborate with other
technology teams, assisting with the demands of operations as required, and
empowering teams to enable reliability, resilience, and supportability of
platforms
• 8-10+ years’ experience
working in medium to large IT environments.
• 4 years working with Azure
Public Cloud services designing and building cloud solutions using IaaS and
PaaS services, with in depth understanding of cloud products and offerings.
• Experience developing and
adopting DevSecOps strategy and ways-of-working.
• Hands on deploying
applications and building infrastructure in cloud via Azure DevOps CI/CD
deployment pipelines.
• Experience in scripting and
automation: Skills in Python, PowerShell, Bash or similar.
• Hands on with
Infrastructure-as-Code and experience provisioning resources using Terraform
OSS.
• Knowledge of container
frameworks, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Deep knowledge of running
IaaS workloads and design/operation of Azure Backup and Azure Monitor for IaaS
workloads.
