Head of Cloud AI Infrastructure & Platform

Telstra Corporation; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra is seeking a Group Owner, Cloud AI Infrastructure to lead the AI infrastructure underpinning Telstra's AI use cases. You will own strategy, roadmap, DevSecOps and the product lifecycle for sovereign, secure, low-latency AI infrastructure across GPUs, storage, networking and self-hosted options.

You will drive a scalable as-a-service model with strong governance, telemetry, and security controls, delivering trusted capacity and cost-efficient services for enterprise workloads.

Qualifications

• Senior technology leadership across large-scale AI infrastructure, cloud, platform engineering or security domains.
• Experience with GPU/accelerator platforms, model serving and modern DevSecOps.
• Practical knowledge of OpenTelemetry, OpenAI-compatible APIs and MCP to reduce lock-in.
• Familiarity with AI runtime security, telemetry, policy enforcement and secure consumption of AI infrastructure services.

Responsibilities

• Set strategy, roadmap and operating model for Cloud AI Infrastructure Services.
• Own the AI infrastructure product portfolio across GPUs, storage, networking, cloud and self-hosted components.
• Provide secure, resilient, observable and cost-effective AI infrastructure services.
• Ensure AI infrastructure operates within security and compliance guardrails.
• Lead a multidisciplinary technology, engineering and product organisation focused on developer experience.

Skills

Senior technology leadership

GPU and accelerator platforms

Model serving

DevSecOps

Infrastructure as Code

Site Reliability Engineering

OpenTelemetry

OpenAI-compatible APIs

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Tools

GPU and accelerator platforms tooling

OpenTelemetry tooling

Job description

Telstra is seeking a Group Owner, Cloud AI Infrastructure to lead the AI infrastructure underpinning Telstra's AI use cases. You will own strategy, roadmap, DevSecOps and the product lifecycle for sovereign, secure, low-latency AI infrastructure across GPUs, storage, networking and self-hosted options.

You will drive a scalable as-a-service model with strong governance, telemetry, and security controls, delivering trusted capacity and cost-efficient services for enterprise workloads.