Ayan Infotech are urgently looking for a Senior Azure Engineer for a full time permanent job opportunity in Sydney.
Due to the nature of the work involved, we can consider candidates with full unrestricted work rights in Australia only.
Job Title: Senior Azure Engineer
Location: Sydney
Work Arrangement: Hybrid
Type: Full time permanent
Years of Experience: 8 or more years of experience
Required Skills and Experience:
As a Senior Azure Engineer, you will be a key driver in ensuring our digital resilience. This is a high-impact role focused on Disaster Recovery (DR) automation and restoration. You will build the "break-glass" infrastructure and automation required to recover the Azure environment from catastrophic events (e.g., ransomware) to maintain Minimum Viable Business (MVB) operations.
Core Objectives of this role:
- Rapid Restoration: Ensure the Azure environment can be "re-built" from scratch at speed.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Transition all manual legacy systems into a fully managed, version-controlled Terraform state.
- Data Integrity: Guarantee that business-critical data is protected by immutable backup policies.
Key Duties:
- Terraform Conversion: Lead the "lift-and-shift" of non-IaC services into Terraform. This involves complex terraform import tasks and refactoring code to meet platform standards.
- Immutable Backup Implementation: Design and validate "locked" backup strategies for storage accounts and databases, ensuring they are protected against deletion or encryption.
- Recovery Runbooks: Author and test technical recovery procedures. Partner with SRE teams to convert these into PagerDuty Runbook Automation.
- Subscription Management: Manage resource migrations across Azure subscriptions (e.g., moving workloads to UAT/Production) to optimize capacity and security.
- Service Prioritization: Collaborate with stakeholders to stack-rank services based on restoration priority (RTO/RPO).
Essential Skills:
- Expert Terraform: Deep experience with Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, state management, and module development.
- Core Azure Services: Mastery of Azure VMs, Networking (Load Balancers, App Gateways, Firewalls, NSGs), and Storage Accounts.
- Containerization: Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (GKE/AKS), including cluster upgrades and workload orchestration.
- CI/CD Pipelines: Proficiency in Azure DevOps (YAML pipelines) for automating infrastructure deployments.
Highly Desirable (Value-Add):
- Scripting: Proficiency in PowerShell, Bash, or a basic understanding of Golang (for custom Terraform providers).
- Disaster Recovery Tools: Experience with Azure Site Recovery (ASR) and backup vault immutability.
- Observability: Experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, and PagerDuty integration.
Contact: 02 9412 4178 for more information.
www.ayaninfotech.com
