Cloud Platform Lead: Azure & AWS | FinOps & Automation

Bank Australia Limited; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

14% super

Flexible working options

24/7 free counselling

Free flu vaccinations

Discounted gym memberships

Study assistance

Paid parental leave

Bonus annual leave

Job summary

Bank Australia Limited is seeking a Lead Specialist, Cloud Platform to provide technical and operational leadership across Azure and AWS. You will drive cloud operations, platform engineering and service improvements, embedding automation, resilience, monitoring and FinOps practices to support technology strategy.

You will collaborate with security, risk and architecture teams to meet governance requirements and lead cost optimisation initiatives while delivering secure, scalable cloud services.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in cloud platform engineering within a large enterprise.
• Proven ability to define and implement cloud standards, governance and patterns.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Cloud Platform team, setting priorities and coordinating Azure and AWS capabilities.
• Define and maintain cloud platform standards, governance and reusable patterns.
• Oversee health, performance, resilience and lifecycle management of cloud services.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code, automation, DevOps and self-service capabilities.
• Implement and maintain cloud security, risk and compliance controls.
• Lead cloud cost optimisation and FinOps, providing insights and forecasting.
• Support major incidents, disaster recovery and business continuity.
• Build strong relationships with technology, security, architecture, and finance stakeholders.

Skills

Cloud platform leadership

Azure and AWS expertise

Infrastructure as Code

Security & compliance

FinOps / cost management

Automation / DevOps

Stakeholder management

Vendor coordination

Clear communication

Education

Cloud certifications (Azure/AWS)

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure DevOps

GitHub

Job description

Bank Australia Limited is seeking a Lead Specialist, Cloud Platform to provide technical and operational leadership across Azure and AWS. You will drive cloud operations, platform engineering and service improvements, embedding automation, resilience, monitoring and FinOps practices to support technology strategy.

You will collaborate with security, risk and architecture teams to meet governance requirements and lead cost optimisation initiatives while delivering secure, scalable cloud services.