Cloud Platform Leader | DevOps, FinOps & Security

Royal Automobile Club of Queensland; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

RACQ roadside assistance

Employee discounts

Wellbeing programs

Flexible work options

Job summary

Royal Automobile Club of Queensland is seeking a Cloud Principal to lead the evolution of RACQ’s cloud platforms, focusing on secure, scalable, and cost-effective services. You’ll blend strategic leadership with coaching to raise cloud capability across engineering, architecture, delivery and operations teams.

You’ll own cloud strategy and governance, drive DevOps, IaC and platform engineering, and mentor teams to deliver reliable, high-performing cloud solutions for Queenslanders.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing and operating enterprise cloud platforms.
• Strong certification: Azure Solutions Architect and DevOps Engineer, or equivalent.
• Ability to influence without authority and coach teams.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Cloud leadership

Cloud architecture

DevOps practices

CI/CD

Stakeholder engagement

Coaching & mentorship

FinOps (cost governance)

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

Terraform

Job description

Royal Automobile Club of Queensland is seeking a Cloud Principal to lead the evolution of RACQ’s cloud platforms, focusing on secure, scalable, and cost-effective services. You’ll blend strategic leadership with coaching to raise cloud capability across engineering, architecture, delivery and operations teams.

You’ll own cloud strategy and governance, drive DevOps, IaC and platform engineering, and mentor teams to deliver reliable, high-performing cloud solutions for Queenslanders.