Senior Cloud Engineer

At Transgrid, we play a crucial role in delivering safe, reliable, and sustainable energy to millions of Australians. Operating over 13,000 km of high-voltage transmission lines and 128 substations across NSW and the ACT, we connect electricity generators to the distribution network—powering homes, businesses, and communities.

As the energy sector evolves, we’re growing our workforce to drive innovation and transformation.

About The Role

Ready to take your Azure expertise to the next level? As a Senior Cloud Engineer at Transgrid, you will be part of a passionate team designing, automating, and optimising the cloud platform that supports one of Australia’s most essential services, powering millions of homes and businesses.

This is a hands-on engineering role where you will create reusable infrastructure patterns, build automation pipelines, and make the secure path the easiest path. You will help shape a modern, self-service Azure environment that accelerates digital transformation across the business.

If you thrive on solving complex technical problems, love automation, and want your work to have national impact, this is the role for you.

What You Will Be Doing 

• Design, deploy, and optimise Azure infrastructure including compute, networking, storage, and identity
• Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform templates for repeatable builds
• Automate deployments and CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions
• Implement policy-as-code guardrails and security controls aligned to ISO and NIST standards
• Troubleshoot complex Azure environments and contribute to incident playbooks

About You

You are a builder, problem-solver, and collaborator who thrives in technical depth and practical delivery. You bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• Solid experience in Azure engineering across Virtual Machines, Kubernetes, Active Directory, networking, and storage
• Advanced scripting skills in PowerShell or Python and an automation-first mindset
• A strong understanding of cloud security, governance, and compliance frameworks
• Excellent communication, documentation, and collaboration skills
• Relevant Microsoft certifications such as Azure Administrator Associate, Solutions Architect Expert, or DevOps Engineer Expert

Our Values

Transgrid's core values encompass safety, achievement, integrity, and service. Prioritising safety above all, the company emphasises making a meaningful impact through achievement, upholding honesty through integrity, and delivering exceptional outcomes for customers and communities through dedicated service. These values are ingrained in the actions and behaviours of Transgrid's people, who embody them every day.

Recognition & Reward

We believe in providing our people personal, professional and social benefits so that they can deliver their best work each and every day. Employees have access to a range of corporate discounts across retail, utilities, travel, health & wellbeing etc, as well as novated leasing options, flexible workplace policies, 20 weeks paid parental leave and more!

Regardless of where you are in your professional journey, Transgrid powers your career by providing access to regular and on-going training, workplace mentoring and tertiary education. Here you are encouraged to build a career that is right for you.

Applications close on the 22nd of November 2025 however will be assessed on a rolling basis and may close earlier – So… apply today and play a crucial role in driving the transition to a cleaner, more sustainable energy future!