Job Description Viva Energy Australia are seeking a Senior Cloud Engineer , you will focus on building and maintaining scalable, resilient, and high-performing Azure infrastructure services. Leveraging Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, and cloud-native services, you will help shape and modernize our infrastructure through green-fields implementations. While you will ensure our cloud usage aligns with organizational efficiency goals, your primary focus is on the design, implementation, and automation of the components necessary for managing applications on the Azure platform. Responsibilities & Requirements Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for all aspects of Azure Cost Management Billing, including analysing usage patterns, identifying cost drivers, and interpreting Enterprise Agreement (EA) or Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) data. Design, build, and maintain automated cost dashboards, reports, and forecasts using tools like Azure Cost Management, Azure Log Analytics, and Power BI, ensuring clear visibility and accountability across engineering teams. Establish and manage Azure Budgets and cost-based alerts on subscriptions, management groups, and resource groups to provide proactive warning of spending anomalies or overruns. Utilize and automate the recommendations from Azure Advisor to identify and implement right-sizing opportunities for over-provisioned resources (VMs, Databases, Storage) without impacting performance. Drive the strategy and execution of Azure Reservations and Azure Savings Plans for Compute, including analysis of commitment vs. usage, and optimization of purchases to maximize discount coverage. Lead technical optimization efforts across specific Azure services, Storage, ASE, AKS etc. Architect and enforce a consistent, mandatory resource tagging strategy using Azure Policy and/or Azure Blueprints to accurately categorize costs by business unit, environment, and application for chargeback purposes. Implement technical governance policies using Azure Policy to restrict the deployment of expensive or unapproved high-cost SKUs (Service Tiers/Sizes). Develop and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts (e.g., using Terraform or Bicep) specifically designed to automate cost-saving measures, such as scheduled shutdown/startup of non-production environments. Embed FinOps principles and practices directly into the CI/CD pipeline (e.g., in Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions) by adding cost impact as a mandatory review gate for new resource deployments.
