They’re building something new — and need a senior engineer who can take the lead, deliver at scale, and set the standards for Azure delivery. The Cloud Engineering pod will define how infrastructure, automation, and operations are managed for a growing customer base, and you’ll turn complex cloud environments into streamlined, secure, and supportable platforms.

You’ll work closely with the Cloud Engineering Manager and customers to understand their business and technical goals, then design modern, scalable Azure solutions that actually deliver outcomes. This is hands-on work, architecting, automating, optimising, but it also calls for strategic thinking, mentoring, and building something repeatable that scales across 50+ customers. You’ll take what’s already there, improve it, and help shape what comes next.

What you’ll be doing

• Designing, implementing, and optimising cloud architectures across Azure IaaS, PaaS, networking, and security.

• Building automation frameworks and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, PowerShell, Python) to standardise delivery.

• Leading cloud migrations, modernisation initiatives, and platform builds aligned to client outcomes.

• Driving operational excellence through observability, monitoring, and SRE practices.

• Mentoring engineers, documenting frameworks, and lifting capability across the pod.

• Partnering with customers to deliver technical leadership, cost optimisation, and continuous improvement.

This is a senior, high-ownership role. If you thrive in environments where deep technical delivery meets automation and innovation — and you like the idea of shaping how Azure is delivered across dozens of clients — this team is for you.

📧 russell@theonset.com.au
📞 0438 984 265

Drive a multi-year transformation and deliver technology-enabled change at one of Victoria's most respected statutory bodies.


With a hybrid-first setup, you'll balance three days in the office with the flexibility to work from home. You'll take senior ownership of analysis and delivery across systems, processes and stakeholder engagement, bringing structure to complexity and enabling smarter, more modern operations across a broad transformation agenda.

This is a 12-month fixed term contract supporting a flagship transformation program.

You'll work across a portfolio of strategic initiatives spanning technology modernisation, business process improvement, data and reporting uplift, governance and risk capability, customer experience and operating model change. You'll lead discovery and current-state analysis, shape future-state processes and operating models, define business and functional requirements, and ensure every solution is grounded in genuine business need and built to last. You'll engage directly with executives, general managers, vendors and delivery partners, helping align stakeholders, resolve ambiguity and drive practical delivery outcomes.

This isn't a passive requirements-gathering role. You'll lead workshops, challenge constructively, synthesise complex information quickly and help shape what gets built and how. The role is highly visible with direct executive exposure, and your work will influence how the firm modernises its operations over the next several years.

What you'll do

• Lead end-to-end business analysis across multiple transformation workstreams
• Map current-state processes and define future-state operating models, requirements and business rules
• Lead discovery workshops, stakeholder interviews and analysis sessions with executives, SMEs and technology teams
• Produce high-quality artefacts including BRDs, process maps, options papers, decision support material and acceptance criteria
• Engage confidently with senior stakeholders to surface risks, challenge assumptions and align on outcomes
• Support vendor engagement, solution assessment, procurement activities and implementation planning
• Maintain clear traceability between business requirements, process design and solution delivery
• Contribute to delivery governance, business readiness assessment and transition to BAU
• Identify opportunities to streamline, standardise or automate processes across the program

What you'll need

• Minimum 10 years' demonstrable experience in senior business analysis, business transformation or technology-enabled change
• Strong business process engineering capability, including current-state assessment and future-state design
• Proven ability to operate in complex, ambiguous environments and bring structure to difficult business problems
• Experience working directly with executives, senior business leaders, SMEs, vendors and technology teams
• Strong facilitation skills, able to lead workshops, resolve ambiguity and drive stakeholder alignment
• Ability to produce clear, high-quality analysis artefacts tailored to senior and non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with Agile, Waterfall or Hybrid delivery approaches, able to right-size to context
• Experience in insurance, legal services, financial services, government or other regulated environments desirable
• Hands-on, pragmatic style with strong written communication and attention to detail
• Melbourne-based, with flexibility (3:2 hybrid model) to attend the CBD office as needed

Why join

This is your opportunity to play a senior, shaping role in a high-profile transformation program, in a smaller, agile environment where decisions are made quickly and your contribution is directly visible. You'll work at the intersection of business strategy, process design and technology delivery, helping build the capability and systems it needs to serve the legal profession for years to come.

Immediate need - 2-stage interview process.

Apply through the link or send your CV to joselle@theonset.com.au

Lead Data Engineer | Azure Databricks | Azure Data Factory | Enterprise Data Platform

If you've built modern Azure data platforms and want the opportunity to shape one from the ground up, this could be the role you've been waiting for.

I'm partnering with a well-established Australian organisation with more than 50 years of success that is making a significant investment in its data and AI capability. Rather than inheriting a mature environment, you'll play a leading role in modernising the enterprise data platform and defining how data is engineered, governed and consumed across the business.

This is a genuine leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys remaining hands-on while influencing architecture, engineering standards and the long-term data strategy.

What you'll be doing

• Design and build a modern enterprise data platform using the Microsoft Azure ecosystem
• Develop scalable, production-grade data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Azure Databricks
• Design data models and transformation frameworks that support analytics, reporting and AI initiatives
• Establish engineering standards, DataOps practices and CI/CD pipelines
• Improve data quality, governance and platform reliability
• Partner with architects, software engineers and business stakeholders to deliver data solutions with real business impact
• Help shape the organisation's future AI capabilities by building strong data foundations

What we're looking for

You'll ideally bring:

• Extensive experience as a Senior or Lead Data Engineer
• Strong Azure Data Factory (ADF) experience
• Strong Azure Databricks experience
• Experience designing enterprise-scale data platforms and architectures
• Expertise building robust ETL/ELT pipelines
• Strong SQL and data modelling skills
• Experience with DataOps, CI/CD and modern engineering practices
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure Synapse, Spark or other modern cloud data platforms would be highly regarded, but isn't essential.

Why this role?

• Join a financially stable Australian business with over five decades of success
• Lead the evolution of an enterprise-wide data platform
• Work on meaningful AI and advanced analytics initiatives
• High level of technical ownership and influence
• Long-term opportunity with genuine investment in technology

If you're looking for a role where you can influence architecture, solve complex engineering challenges and help define the future direction of a growing data capability, I'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or send an email to reema@theonset.com.au for a confidential discussion.

Software Engineer | Sydney | Utilise AI to develop exciting new features 

Seeking stability and innovation in your next role?

Why choose between the excitement of a start-up and the stability of an established company when you can have both!

Join a profitable scale-up with 12 years of success and significant funding to scale even further!

About the Company

This Sydney-based global design company that empowers small businesses to build their brand instantly. With a loyal customer base in Australia, EU, and the US, they are now focused on making their platform the best in the world.

The company has just rebranded their small-business branding application, anticipating more traffic and engagement. They are already leveraging AI, and have a dedicated AI team to develop image-based generative AI, keeping them ahead of the competition.

They value flexibility. Most of the team comes in one day a week, and they have monthly team events. If you prefer the office, there's a core group that goes in regularly, and they even have a coffee tab next door!

About the Role

This company is looking for both Mid-Senior level engineers to join their Agile, quality-focused teams. You'll work on developing and improving a large customer-facing platform, handling tasks from database design to integration development.

As a backend-focused engineer, you'll build and deploy new functionalities, support existing features, enhance site scalability, infrastructure, and testing, all in a highly collaborative environment.

They have weekly highlight and feature meetings, perfect for showcasing your work and staying updated on product developments.

What You'll Need

• Expertise in Microsoft .Net Framework and C# (.Net Core, WebApi, MVC)
• Experience with AWS or any other cloud provider
• Experience using AI in your development
• Solid REST API skills
• Knowledge of Vuejs, Angular, React, or any JS framework is a bonus
• Strong understanding of SDLC and TDD
• Significant experience writing unit and integration tests
• Experience with CI tools
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to work in an agile environment
• A passion for learning and taking ownership of your work 

Benefits

• Flexible working arrangements (home and office)
• Work with a team of innovators and tech enthusiasts (AI already introduced)
• Equity in the company
• Career progression in a fast-growing company
• Talented team and fun culture with quarterly events and team lunches

If you're ready to make an impact and grow with a dynamic and supportive team, I would love to hear from you! Apply directly now to join their journey.

Engineering Manager | Sydney | Lead a High-Growth Product Area

• Hybrid Working - 3 days in office

• High Visibility Business Unit - key investment area of the business

• Hands-On Technical Leadership - Greenfield and Brownfield work

Join one of Australia's leading digital businesses and take ownership of a critical engineering function powering a key growth area of the organisation.

As an Engineering Manager, you will create a team responsible for building and scaling products that millions of Australians use each day. This is a rare opportunity to combine technical leadership, people leadership, and strategic influence while remaining close enough to the technology to make a genuine impact.

You'll be a hands-on technical leader, partnering closely with Product, Design, and Principal Engineers to shape architecture, drive delivery, and develop engineering capability across a business unit that sits at the centre of future growth plans.

You'll inherit an existing technology environment, but will also be given the autonomy to influence future technical direction, improve engineering practices, and help shape the next generation of products used by both B2B and B2C customers every day.

What's in it for you?

• Create a new team working on a strategically important, revenue-generating product area.

• Remain hands-on while influencing architecture, technical direction, and engineering standards. Allowing you to have a direct impact on users. 

• Drive meaningful technical investment, platform improvements, and system evolution.

• Be a technical innovator in the AI space. 

The Role

You'll be responsible for leading a team of engineers, driving delivery outcomes, and ensuring the quality, scalability, and reliability of the systems you own.

You'll balance strategic leadership with technical contribution, helping the team navigate complex engineering challenges while ensuring delivery remains aligned to business objectives.

Working closely with business stakeholders, you'll influence roadmap decisions, guide architectural evolution, and create an environment where engineers can perform at their best and align with key business goals and metrics.

What You'll Bring

• Proven experience leading software engineering teams within modern product organisations.

• Strong hands-on background across C#/.Net and modern frontend technologies.

• Experience designing and evolving scalable cloud-based systems across AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, event-driven architecture, and modern engineering practices.

• Experience balancing product delivery, technical debt, platform investment, and operational excellence.

• Ability to work closely with Product and Design to influence roadmaps, prioritisation, and business outcomes.

• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to communicate technical decisions to both technical and non-technical audiences.

If you're looking for a role where you can continue to influence technology while building and leading exceptional engineering teams, we'd love to hear from you.

Apply now or reach out to Karl directly at karl@theonset.com.au

Staff Site Reliability Engineer - $300k (base + super + bonus), Sydney - 2 Days WFH

Have you ever read an old engineering blog or case study and thought, "I would have loved to have been part of that"?

There are teams in Australia working on how AI will reshape platform operations for the next decade.

Actively building Agentic SRE, applying AI to incident detection, diagnosis, and remediation at scale.

Not just pilots. But in production.

And in five years, they will be case studies that other engineers read about.

Do you want to be the case study or the reader?

If it's the latter, we're recruiting for a staff-level SRE for a global financial institution you might be interested in.

Large-scale distributed systems with business-critical reliability challenges, significant executive investment in AI, emerging Agentic SRE practices, meaningful strategic engineering influence, and the stability and resources of a leading financial institution.

There are very few opportunities in the Australian market right now where you'd get this combination of scale, investment, and timing.

This is a genuine Staff-level position, not a rebadged Senior.

If you think it's worth a conversation, contact Julien Bicknell at The Onset to find out more, 0406158832 or julien@theonset.com.au

Technical Project Lead

Sydney | Hybrid | Up to $140,000 + Super

If you're someone who enjoys being the person that keeps everything moving, this could be a great opportunity.

We're looking for a Technical Project Lead to work closely with the founder, technical teams, and external stakeholders, helping lead projects, manage priorities, and drive initiatives from idea through to execution.

You'll have broad exposure across the business, genuine ownership of your work, and the opportunity to build systems and processes that make a real impact.

What you'll be doing

• Coordinating project activities across internal and external stakeholders
• Managing meeting preparation, actions, follow-ups, and reporting
• Maintaining project tracking and CRM systems
• Supporting customer engagements, trials, and strategic initiatives
• Tracking milestones, risks, dependencies, and deliverables
• Working with technical teams to ensure information flows effectively
• Improving processes and creating structure where needed

About you

We're open on background, but you'll likely have experience in project coordination, operations, customer success, program support, or a similar role.

You'll be someone who:

• Is highly organised and detail-oriented
• Can manage multiple priorities at once
• Communicates clearly and professionally
• Is comfortable working with technical teams
• Takes ownership and follows things through
• Enjoys solving problems and improving processes

Experience in technology, engineering, defence, mining, manufacturing, aerospace, or other technical environments would be highly regarded.

Interested? Feel free to connect with Megan @ The Onset for any further questions. 

Senior Electrical / Electronics Engineer

Sydney | Full-time | Onsite / Hybrid

The Mission

Own the hard electronics gap between prototype and product across 13 to 15 custom boards, high-speed compute, Jetson architecture, sensing, power and compliance.

The Challenge

• Designing and reviewing complex embedded PCBs across compute, sensing, power and robotics electronics
• Working with PCIe, Ethernet, Nvidia Jetson and other high-speed board-level constraints
• Taking prototype electronics toward manufacturable, testable and compliant product hardware
• Building EMC / EMI, intrinsic safety, protection and reliability thinking into design decisions early
• Reviewing schematics, layouts, BOMs and component choices before issues become field or production problems
• Creating practical verification, pre-compliance and production test plans that support real release decisions
• Working tightly with mechanical, firmware and manufacturing teams where board design, packaging and build reality collide
• This is senior IC work for someone who wants real ownership of complex hardware, not one small slice of a slower machine

The Bar

• Strong schematic and PCB design experience, ideally in Altium
• High-speed digital or compute-board experience, especially PCIe, Ethernet or similar
• Experience taking embedded electronics beyond R&D and into real products
• Practical EMC / EMI design judgement across layout, grounding, shielding, filtering and cabling
• Strong understanding of power distribution, switching regulators, mixed-signal design and protection
• Comfort reviewing others’ work and giving clear technical direction without turning it into theatre
• Manufacturing, test, compliance or certification exposure in hardware that had to survive real use
• Jetson's highly regarded. Intrinsic safety's highly regarded. Motor control's useful. Complex board ownership matters most

The Hire

Someone who has seen boards behave on the bench and misbehave everywhere else.

• You understand that the hard part is not just making the circuit work. It is making it work inside a compact robot with motors, batteries, sensors, cables, compliance expectations and manufacturing variance
• You are hands-on, senior enough to challenge assumptions, and still practical enough to move at startup pace

The "Why me?"

• The team has built impressive prototypes. The next stage needs senior electrical depth across complexity, review, scale-up and productisation
• This role exists to help the hardware become repeatable, compliant and reliable before the same problems scale

The "Why this?"

• Work across 13 to 15 custom boards, not one narrow subsystem
• Help shape the electrical function before it becomes rigid
• Influence how hardware moves from prototype into manufacture
• Stay close to real engineering trade-offs across compute, sensing, power, safety and mechanics
• Join a growing lab environment with proper electrical setup planned as the company scales

If you like complex embedded hardware and the uncomfortable bit between prototype and product, reach out

R&D Machinist / CNC Operator

Sydney | Full-time | Onsite

The Mission

Bring 5-axis CNC in-house and become the person who turns small, awkward, high-tolerance robot parts into fast R&D iteration. 

The Challenge

Programming, setting and operating a 5-axis CNC for small, complex metal prototype parts.

Solving workholding, jigging, soft-jaw and fixture problems for parts that are difficult by nature:

• Making *tiny* gears, compact components, assembly aids and test fixtures that speed up hardware development
• Working with aluminium, stainless steel, brass and other prototype metals where fidelity matters
• Feeding practical DFM advice back to engineers before awkward geometry becomes a recurring problem
• Supporting module builds, gearbox work and hands-on integration where machining meets mechatronics
• Helping build the internal rapid-manufacturing capability around modern equipment and fast iteration

This isn't production machining, job-shop repetition or parts-per-day output. It's R&D machining for someone who likes solving the part before cutting it.

The Bar

• Proven ability to program, set and operate 5-axis CNC machines
• Experience making small, complex, high-tolerance components
• Strong fixture, jig, soft-jaw and workholding problem-solving ability
• Enough experience to look at a difficult part and know where the real manufacturing risk sits
• Comfort working from a clear backlog without needing step-by-step supervision
• Expert communicator: work with the engineering team to drive optimal, commercial design behaviours

Gears are highly regarded. Swiss-type CNC's a serious bonus. 

Trade qualifications are useful, but aptitude and adaptability matter more.

The Hire

• Someone who gets interested when the part's tiny, annoying to hold or awkward to fixture
• You care about clean setups, smart process, good feedback and making the next version easier than the last one
• You'll need enough experience to add capability immediately, but the right attitude isn't “I make what I’m given”. It's “I can make this, but here’s how to make it smarter next time”

The "Why me?"

• External suppliers can make parts. They can't sit inside the engineering loop
• This role exists to shorten the distance between design, machined part, physical test and next revision

The "Why this?"

• • Own early internal 5-axis CNC capability
  • Work with modern equipment in a growing R&D lab
  • Make difficult, high-value parts for a real robotics product
  • Influence how engineers design for manufacture
  • Avoid repetitive production work and unit-cost obsession
  • Be part of the design loop, not treated like an external supplier

If you're the person people ask when a part looks impossible, we should talk.