Cloud Platforms Lead: Multi-Cloud Architect & DevOps Champion

Ventia; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

CSIRO is seeking a Cloud Platforms Technical Lead to govern the cloud foundation across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will shape strategic technical vision, lead the Cloud Platforms Team, and drive PoC initiatives for emerging tech while setting security, resilience, and DevOps standards for research and enterprise use.

Balancing strategy with hands-on engineering, you will mentor engineers, foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, and elevate engineering culture to empower Australia’s science

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading cloud engineering or DevOps teams in a complex, multi-cloud environment.
• Deep technical expertise across AWS, Azure and/or GCP including architecture and security controls.
• Strong knowledge of cloud-native technologies (IaC, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, observability stacks).
• Ability to set strategic direction, lead large-scale platform uplift and manage vendor relations.
• Experience with cloud security, governance, identity management and ISM compliance.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to the Cloud Platforms team for enterprise and research cloud services across AWS, Azure and GCP.
• Oversee technical roadmaps, service maturity uplift, automation adoption, and alignment with CSIRO tech direction.
• Coordinate cloud engineering resources to support stability, delivery and capability uplift.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native patterns, IaC, CI/CD, containers and automated operations.
• Lead cloud security uplift in line with ISM controls and maintain continuous compliance.
• Oversee FinOps practices, tagging standards, spend forecasting and reserved instance planning.

Skills

Cloud leadership

AWS

Azure

GCP

DevOps

Cloud security

FinOps

Kubernetes

IaC

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect)

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

CI/CD tools

Job description

CSIRO is seeking a Cloud Platforms Technical Lead to govern the cloud foundation across AWS, Azure, and GCP. You will shape strategic technical vision, lead the Cloud Platforms Team, and drive PoC initiatives for emerging tech while setting security, resilience, and DevOps standards for research and enterprise use.

Balancing strategy with hands-on engineering, you will mentor engineers, foster cross-disciplinary collaboration, and elevate engineering culture to empower Australia’s science