Cloud Database Engineer Job No: 678420 Sydney - Inner Suburbs & CBD, Brisbane - Inner Suburbs & CBD Permanent Full Time IT Pay Band 5 Brisbane OR Sydney Help shape and build the future-state cloud database platform Hybrid work model – 50% WFH Broad multi‑cloud exposure with automation‑first engineering Join our Cloud Platforms team as we develop a secure, scalable, and future-focused cloud database capability across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will contribute to a major modernisation journey, uplift automation, and support teams through a purpose-led transformation. This is a unique chance to shape strategy, tooling, patterns, and platform maturity from inception. What You’ll Do Design, build, and maintain reliable cloud and hybrid database platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP, ensuring secure and high-performing outcomes. Develop automation and infrastructure‑as‑code using Terraform, CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, or Ansible to streamline deployment and operational workflows. Improve service reliability through performance tuning, monitoring, alerting, and preventative engineering practices. Support incident and problem resolution, contributing to root‑cause analysis, documentation, and continuous improvement. Participate in modernisation initiatives, cloud migration activities, and lifecycle planning, helping define what the next‑generation database platform will look like. Collaborate with cloud, platform, security, and application teams to embed governance, compliance, security, and best‑practice operational controls. What You’ll Bring Experience progressing from a DBA background into cloud engineering, with strong capability across Oracle and/or SQL Server. Deep understanding of cloud database services such as AWS RDS, Azure Database, or Google Cloud Database, and how they support enterprise workloads. Proficiency in automation and IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, PowerShell, Python) to enhance deployment, governance, and reliability. Strong grasp of cloud security, networking, and compliance, with the ability to embed these into database lifecycle management. Experience delivering high availability, disaster recovery, and backup solutions across cloud-native and hybrid environments. Ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly, support cross‑functional collaboration, and contribute to capability uplift. PD - Cloud Database Engineer - Cloud Platforms.docx Please contact melissa.turkington@suncorp.com.au for more information. To apply for this opportunity, please submit your application directly via the link provided. Advertised: 12 Feb 2026 AUS Eastern Daylight Time Applications close: 26 Feb 2026 AUS Eastern Daylight Time Whatsapp Facebook LinkedIn Email App Don't see a job for you? Don't see your dream job posted? No problem, sign up for job alerts and we'll let you know once something becomes available. Sign Up Today
