Director, Cloud Reliability & Platform Engineering

Optus; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 260,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

$80 monthly credit

25% off Optus products

Flexible working (3 days in office, 2远

Job summary

Optus is a leading Australian telecommunications provider delivering mobile, broadband and digital solutions. The role of Director Cloud & Infrastructure Reliability Engineering (IME) leads strategic engineering across IME, SRE, security and resilience to ensure reliability and operational readiness across cloud and infrastructure platforms.

The role reports to the Senior Director and shapes platform roadmaps, governance, and technology strategies.

Qualifications

• Extensive leadership experience in infrastructure and cloud engineering.
• Proven track record in reliability engineering (SRE) practices.
• Experience with IaC and modern platform tooling.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform reliability and operational readiness across cloud and infrastructure.
• Define and govern SLOs/SLIs and reliability metrics.
• Drive governance and continuous service improvement across IME and SRE functions.
• Establish resilience engineering frameworks and platform roadmaps.

Skills

Infrastructure leadership

Cloud engineering

SRE practices

DevSecOps

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Optus is a leading Australian telecommunications provider delivering mobile, broadband and digital solutions. The role of Director Cloud & Infrastructure Reliability Engineering (IME) leads strategic engineering across IME, SRE, security and resilience to ensure reliability and operational readiness across cloud and infrastructure platforms.

The role reports to the Senior Director and shapes platform roadmaps, governance, and technology strategies.