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Here are the latest DevOps and cloud engineer contract roles that Freelance Radar found on LinkedIn. For every role you contact the person hiring directly, with no job board in between. There are 30 contract roles live right now, and the list is updated continuously.

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Updated on 6 October 2026

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Senior / Lead Azure Data Engineer

Long-term contract role for federal government clients, remote within Australia or Canberra based, requiring Baseline clearance with NV1 preferred, focused on Azure data engineering.

Remote within Australia or Canberra

Integration Engineer

Design, develop and support enterprise integration solutions using Microsoft Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, Service Bus, Functions, Event Grid, APIM) with .NET Core, C#, SQL and CI/CD on a co…

Lead Data Engineer

Long-term contract for an experienced Lead Data Engineer with Australian citizenship and NV1 Security Clearance, working on data and analytics platforms with Azure, Data Factory, Databricks, Data Lake…

Canberra preferred | Sydney | Melbourne

Integration Engineer

Contract role in Melbourne seeking an experienced Integration Engineer to design, develop and support enterprise integration solutions using Microsoft Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, Service B…

Senior Infrastructure Cloud Engineer

Infrastructure/Cloud Engineer needed for a major IAM Modernisation project working across Azure, Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory hybrid infrastructure, supporting a large-scale transition from…

Senior Go/Golang + AWS Backend Engineer

12-month contract with strong extension potential for a senior backend engineer (5+ years) with strong Go/Golang and mandatory hands-on AWS production experience to work on a next-generation road user…

Australia — Fully Remote

Lead Data Engineer

Long-term contract for an experienced Lead Data Engineer to work across data and analytics platforms for a government client, requiring Australian citizenship, NV1 security clearance and skills in Azu…

Canberra (preferred), Sydney or Melbourne

Senior System Administrator – EL1 Level

10-month contract with extension option for an onsite Senior System Administrator with NV2 clearance, strong RHEL, AWS (EC2, Lambda, S3, Backup), Ansible, Semaphore, Grafana, ELK Stack and systems adm…

Senior API Engineer/ Developer

End-to-end delivery of a banking program, attending requirement discussions with business stakeholders to finalize FSDs and interface documents; requires microservices design principles, Java 8+, Spri…

Senior Azure Data Engineer / Lead (Databricks)

Experienced Azure Data Engineer/Lead (8-12 years) with strong Python, SQL, PySpark, Azure Databricks, Synapse, ADF and MLOps skills for a permanent or fixed-term contract in Sydney, requiring PR or ci…

Senior Automation Test Analyst

Contract hybrid role in Sydney requiring hands-on Playwright and TypeScript automation testing experience, plus automation framework development, API/E2E testing, CI/CD with Azure DevOps, BDD, POM and…

Integration Engineer (Azure Integration Services)

Contract role in Melbourne designing, developing and supporting enterprise integration solutions using Microsoft Azure Integration Services (Logic Apps, Service Bus, APIM, Azure Functions, Event Grid)…

SRE Engineer with GCP

Contract SRE role to build, productionise and operate strategic Network Cloud platforms on GCP, requiring hands-on IAM, VPC networking, CI/CD, Kubernetes/GKE and production troubleshooting experience,…

Data QA / Test Engineer

6-month contract for a data-focused test engineer to start ASAP, designing and running SQL-based test scripts, validating data accuracy across source and destination platforms, testing ETL processes a…

Sydney or Melbourne

Senior GenAI / AI Engineer

Contract role in Sydney building enterprise-scale GenAI solutions with Python/FastAPI, LangChain/LangGraph, AWS Bedrock/SageMaker, Kubernetes and agentic AI, ideally for banking/financial services cli…

Sydney, Australia

Senior DevOps Engineer – Azure & Kubernetes

6-month contract for an experienced Senior DevOps Engineer to design and manage enterprise DevOps platforms, Azure cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes container orchestration; must be…

Cyber Security Architect

Long term contract for an Australian citizen (NV1 preferred) to own cyber security architecture across SIEM and enterprise logging, Microsoft Entra/AD, Purview, Defender for Endpoint and Identity, Azu…

Canberra / Hybrid

Senior Test Analyst

4 x Senior Test Analysts needed for 3-6 month contracts requiring a mix of automation and manual testing, DevOps, and experience testing .Net applications.

DevOps Specialist

Experienced DevOps Specialist needed for an initial 12-month contract in a highly secure environment, requiring hands-on CI/CD, cloud, container orchestration, DevOps security, vulnerability managemen…

Data Engineer / Analytics / BI

Long term contract role on-site in Inner Brisbane for someone bridging Data Engineering, Analytics and BI, building pipelines, modelling data, creating Power BI reporting and working with stakeholders…

Inner Brisbane

Senior Data Engineer

Contract role building secure, high-performance data services for a major Australian bank, requiring 7+ years with Java and Spring Boot microservices, advanced SQL/PL/SQL on Oracle and PostgreSQL, plu…

Sydney, NSW

Full-time or contract role for a Java Developer with Spring Boot, Microservices, JavaScript, AWS and React experience; valid AU visa required.

Azure Infrastructure/Cloud Architect

Experienced Azure Architect to lead design, governance and implementation oversight of a strategic Azure platform including networking, identity, security, PaaS, IaaS, connectivity, resilience, monito…

Sydney or Canberra · Hourly contract rate

Azure Infrastructure Cloud Architect

6-12 month contract to lead Azure cloud architecture, landing zones, governance, security and enterprise-scale infrastructure design for a major Government Modern Workplace transformation; existing AG…

Canberra preferred; Sydney/Melbourne/Brisbane

Application Support Analyst

Provide Level 2 technical support across critical government grants management platforms using Microsoft Azure, ServiceNow, Azure DevOps and Application Insights, on a 6-month contract with extensions…

18-month contract for a Cloud Engineer with essential Azure cloud deployment and design skills; onsite in Canberra, Australian citizenship required.

Canberra · $135–150 p/h inc

Windows / Cloud Engineers

12-month contract for Windows/Cloud Engineers with Azure, M365 and cloud ops experience; onsite in Canberra with NV1 clearance.

Canberra · $140-155p/h

Hybrid Engineer

3-year contract for a Hybrid Engineer with experience in both on-premise environments and Azure online for a cloud migration project; onsite in Canberra with NV1 clearance.

Canberra · $140–155 p/h inc

Senior Integration Software Developer

Long-term Federal Government engagement supporting a major application transformation program, strong across microservices, APIs and event-driven architecture (REST/OpenAPI, Kafka/RabbitMQ/Service Bus…

Canberra or Sydney

Azure Infrastructure & Cloud Architect

Experienced Azure Architect needed to lead Azure landing zone, infrastructure, networking, security, governance and hybrid cloud architecture; 6 months with likely extension; hybrid 3 days office / 2 …

Canberra, Melbourne, & Brisbane considered