Cloud Operations Lead (Azure)
**How will I help?**
The Cloud Support Lead plays an important role in maintaining service levels for critical workloads, end-to-end support of technical solutions on the public cloud and ensures that operations are fit for purpose.
The Cloud Support Lead role is accountable for achieving both service stability and security compliance, ownership of major incidents and ensuring operational readiness for core, customer and automation patterns.
**What will you do?**
- Accountable for service stability in a rapidly evolving 24x7 operations environment.
- Own major incidents, ongoing problem management and IT Service Management targets end-to-end.
- Maintain strong Azure foundational security, compliance and cost practices.
- Facilitate solution delivery handover phase to ensure timely resolution of design issues and operational readiness before deployment.
- Support the deployment and operations of automated Azure enabled infrastructure environments, patterns, tools, and platforms.
- Deliver continuous service improvement, automation of repetitive processes and improved customer experience.
- Coaching and mentoring the L2 operations team.
- Customer engagement, relationship development and requirement gathering for BAU changes.
- Provide expert input into the planning of future requirements, all aspects of capacity planning, performance monitoring and tuning of specific infrastructure components to ensure the stability and availability of the cloud platform.
- Liaise with executive and senior stakeholders (Architecture, Security and Engineering) and Suppliers
- Contribute to effective communications with Suppliers and proactively establish the network of key technical experts
- Contribute to the common "one team" mindset that includes collaboration and a sense of joint responsibility between Westpac teams and suppliers
- Maintain focus on industry and technical trends to enable evaluation and recommend changes to the automation and orchestration of services.
**What's in it for me?**
You will play an important and significant part in the future of a business that has been around for 200 years. Our vision is to create better futures together. So, we will back you in the development of your career, with internal career prospects and flexible working. You will also be backed by a fantastic team of people in a can-do, supportive structure.
**What do I need?**
- 5+ years of experience in Azure technologies.
- Coaching and mentoring team to maximize support potential
- Customer engagement, relationship development, requirements gathering and scheduling of support issues and priorities.
- Broad understanding of technologies with strong ability to learn new ones to facilitate support requirements
- Experience in one or more DevOps automation tools - Terraform, BitBucket, Jira, Jenkins
- Experience in IaC and infrastructure management tools - Terraform or CloudFormation
- Strong and effective communication and collaboration skills
- Strong analysis and problem-solving skills
- Knowledge in scripting and developing tools including - Bash/Shell, Ruby, JSON, Python, NodeJS, JavaScript
- Experience in developing CICD pipelines - Jenkins, Artifactory
- Troubleshooting in Azure technologies and across multiple consumption models (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
- Agile methodologies - Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, SAFe, TDD, BDD, customer centric design
- Azure cloud certification is highly desired
**What's it like to work there?**
As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will get some of the best banking, wealth, and insurance benefits in the market.
We back our employees by helping them work towards industry-recognised qualifications, using online learning, training modules and career planning tools for you to grow with us. We will even pay you to do volunteer or community work.
We aim to provide one big, supportive team to help us achieve our purpose of creating better futures together. As well as competitive remuneration and a great culture, joining the Westpac family means you will have access to banking, wealth, and insurance benefits. #LI-Hybrid.
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