Cloud Platform Lead - Strategy, FinOps & DevOps

Royal Automobile Club of Queensland; Queensland; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free roadside assistance

Employee discounts

Wellbeing resources

Flexible work arrangements

Job summary

Royal Automobile Club of Queensland is seeking a Cloud Principal to lead RACQ's cloud evolution, ensuring secure, scalable and governed services. You will guide strategy, architecture, automation and self-service while mentoring teams across engineering, architecture and operations.

You will drive platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, and FinOps, with a focus on developer experience, reliability and operational efficiency within a large Australian organization.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and operating enterprise cloud platforms.
• Strong in Azure, AWS or GCP and cloud architecture.
• Knowledge of security, identity, networking and resilience.
• Hands-on automation, IaC, DevOps and CI/CD practices.
• Platform engineering focus and improving developer experience.
• Migration, modernization, service roadmaps and health metrics.
• Strong coaching and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Azure Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer certs or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Own cloud strategy, roadmaps, standards and engineering practices.
• Develop reusable cloud services, deployment frameworks and self-service.
• Drive platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD and IaC practices.
• Improve developer experience, delivery speed and reliability.
• Strengthen governance, security, risk, and cost controls.
• Lead FinOps, forecasting and cost governance.
• Establish service health metrics and reporting for investment choices.
• Provide technical leadership for cloud transformation and architecture decisions.
• Coach teams and build cloud capability through communities of practice.

Skills

Enterprise cloud platforms

Azure/AWS/GCP

Cloud security & resilience

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

DevOps & CI/CD

Platform engineering

Mentoring & coaching

Cloud migration & modernization

Tools

Terraform

CI/CD tooling

Cloud monitoring tooling

Job description

Royal Automobile Club of Queensland is seeking a Cloud Principal to lead RACQ's cloud evolution, ensuring secure, scalable and governed services. You will guide strategy, architecture, automation and self-service while mentoring teams across engineering, architecture and operations.

You will drive platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, and FinOps, with a focus on developer experience, reliability and operational efficiency within a large Australian organization.