We are looking for a Senior Cloud Engineer to support our client on a greenfield project. About Facto Facto is a growing Australian IT consultancy specialising in business transformation, technology enablement, and strategic advisory services. We partner with clients across a range of industries to deliver complex change programs and drive measurable outcomes. Our consultants are trusted experts who thrive in fast-paced, evolving environments. The opportunity Join the Innovation & Digital Enablement team to design, build, and operate secure, resilient cloud services that power a next-generation talent marketplace. You’ll turn architectural guardrails into working cloud environments, uplift DevSecOps practices, and enable product and data teams to ship faster and safer through automation, observability, and high-quality engineering standards. What the role does Cloud architecture & engineering: Implement reference designs across AWS/GCP/Azure; build reliable, scalable foundations and service integrations. DevSecOps & automation: Stand up CI/CD pipelines with testing and security scanning; codify environments with IaC for repeatable, compliant releases. Operations & observability: Instrument services with metrics/logs/traces; drive availability, performance, and cost optimisation with clear runbooks. Security & identity by design: Embed least-privilege IAM, secrets, and cloud security controls; support compliance needs through policy-as-code. Cross-functional enablement: Collaborate with Product & Experience, Data, and engineering leads; contribute reusable templates/“golden paths” and knowledge transfer to teams. What the role needs Depth of practice: ~10 years across technology/engineering; 3 years in senior cloud roles delivering production workloads. Technical breadth: Hands-on with multi-cloud, containers/Kubernetes, CI/CD, IaC (e.g. Terraform), observability, and platform security. Outcome mindset: Proven improvements in reliability, performance, and cost, with clear automation and quality gains. Certifications (valued): Cloud architect/security and Kubernetes credentials. Tooling & tech Cloud: AWS/GCP/Azure Containers/Platform: Kubernetes; API gateway (AWS/Kong/Apigee); service mesh (Istio/Linkerd) IaC/CI-CD: Terraform/Terragrunt; GitHub Actions/GitLab CI/Azure DevOps; GitOps (Argo CD/Flux) Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry; alerting & runbooks Security: IAM/OIDC, secrets management (Vault/Secrets Manager), WAF; policy-as-code (OPA/Kyverno). Apply today!
