Cloud Platform Lead: Strategy, Automation & FinOps

RACQ; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free roadside assistance

Employee discounts

Wellbeing programs

Flexible working

Job summary

RACQ is seeking a Cloud Principal to lead the evolution of our cloud platforms in Queensland. You will set strategic direction, develop reusable services, and drive automation, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code across engineering, architecture, delivery and operations.

You will coach teams, enhance security and resilience, and lead cloud governance and FinOps initiatives while delivering secure, scalable and cost-effective platforms for RACQ’s digital services.

Qualifications

• Design and operate enterprise cloud platforms.
• Strong multi-cloud experience (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Automation, IaC, DevOps and CI/CD expertise.
• Coaching and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Availability for on-call and out-of-hours support.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud strategy, roadmaps, standards and practices.
• Develop reusable cloud services, deployment frameworks, automation and self-service capabilities.
• Drive platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code practices.
• Improve developer experience, delivery speed, service reliability and operational efficiency.
• Strengthen cloud governance, security, risk, compliance and cost governance.
• Lead FinOps, cloud financial management, cost optimisation, forecasting and cost governance.
• Establish service health measures, reporting, dashboards and metrics to guide investment and improvement.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud transformation, modernisation, architecture reviews and key technology decisions.
• Coach teams and build cloud capability through mentoring, knowledge sharing and communities of practice.

Skills

Cloud architecture

DevOps

CI/CD

Automation

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching

Cloud migration

Multi-cloud

On-call readiness

Security & resilience

Education

Azure Solutions Architect certification

DevOps Engineer certification

Job description

RACQ is seeking a Cloud Principal to lead the evolution of our cloud platforms in Queensland. You will set strategic direction, develop reusable services, and drive automation, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code across engineering, architecture, delivery and operations.

You will coach teams, enhance security and resilience, and lead cloud governance and FinOps initiatives while delivering secure, scalable and cost-effective platforms for RACQ’s digital services.