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About the Role
The Azure Cloud Engineer supports and enhances BDO’s Azure environment to keep it secure, reliable and scalable. Working with the Manager of Cloud Engineering, you’ll balance hands-on platform operations and forward-looking improvements, helping shape cloud solutions with Service Lines. This role is suited to an engineer with strong foundational capability and the right mindset. We are looking for someone curious, pragmatic and confident in their thinking, and able to contribute to discussions to help uplift cloud maturity across the organisation.
About the Team
You’ll join a collaborative Cloud Engineering function working closely with Architects, SREs, Developers and Cloud Run teams. The team is focused on modern engineering practices, automation-first delivery and continuous improvement, with a strong emphasis on learning and innovation.
Key Responsibilities
Build, maintain and optimise Azure services for performance, security and availability
Support landing zones, governance, RBAC, networking and enterprise controls
Drive cost optimisation through FinOps practices (tagging, budgets, optimisation)
Develop reusable IaC (Bicep, Terraform) and automation for consistent delivery
Create and maintain CI/CD pipelines and platform templates
Enable integration services (API Management, Logic Apps, Service Bus)
Partner with Service Lines to shape secure, scalable cloud solutions early in the lifecycle
Support platform operations including incidents, monitoring and troubleshooting
Implement observability and security tooling (Azure Monitor, Sentinel, Defender)
Maintain documentation, runbooks and platform standards
Support networking (VNets, VPN, ExpressRoute, DNS, firewalls, private endpoints)
Contribute to continuous improvement, knowledge sharing and platform uplift initiatives
Qualifications, Experience & Skills
Degree in IT, Computer Science or equivalent experience
Azure certifications (AZ-900, AZ-104 desirable; AZ-305, AZ-700 advantageous) and/or DevOps/IaC certifications (e.g. AZ-400, Terraform) preferred; ITIL v4 desirable
Hands-on experience supporting Azure cloud environments with exposure to IaC (Bicep, Terraform, ARM), governance, RBAC and landing zones
Experience or exposure to CI/CD, automation, modern engineering practices and platform operations (incident response, monitoring, troubleshooting)
Familiarity with networking and hybrid connectivity, plus security and monitoring tooling (e.g. Defender for Cloud, Azure Monitor)
Strong foundational Azure, networking and automation knowledge
Analytical, curious and innovative mindset with confidence to challenge and contribute ideas
Collaborative approach with strong communication skills and willingness to learn and compromise
High attention to detail with a focus on reliability, governance, continuous improvement and platform uplift
Why BDO?
Working for BDO you will be part of a growing and market leading professional services firm.
Our national and global footprint provides our people with opportunities to work on interesting client engagements, across diverse industry sectors and services.
Our open and collaborative culture ensures access to Partners and professional mentors, to guide and accelerate your professional career, across a wide array of career pathways.
We provide our people with various health and wellbeing, social, financial, and professional development benefits to help realise what’s possible.
Participate in fitness challenges or take advantage of exclusive discounts to corporate health insurance, gym memberships and wellness facilities via our BWell program. Access benefits such as travel perks, retail discounts, employee referral rewards, study, and professional development support.
Our leave options cater to the unique needs of our people; and include enhanced family support, cultural and religious leave, and options to purchase additional leave. You can also give back and get involved in community initiatives via our BCaring program.
With a strong focus on learning and growth, we provide on the job training and formal development programs to help you succeed in your role and develop your skills and experience.
Our culture is underpinned by our core values (One, Bold, Human, Heart and Strive).
We are proud to be recognised as an Inclusive Employer for 2025-2026 by Diversity Council of Australia and a 2024-2025 Employer of Choice for Gender Equality by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency (WGEA).
BDO is committed to inclusive and accessible recruitment practices. If you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application or interview process, we encourage you to contact our Talent Acquisition team at [email protected]
What We Do
BDO is a trusted adviser to clients seeking audit, tax and advisory services. As one of the world’s leading audit and accounting organisations, we have clients of all types and sizes from large corporate organisations to private businesses, entrepreneurs and individuals across an array of industry sectors. At BDO, we are guided by our values that are the foundation of what we deliver: IDEAS | PEOPLE | TRUST. This is about delivering ideas and advice that create value; quality-driven people who are motivated by providing exceptional client service; and being trusted to get the job done. Talk to us today.
