Head of Cloud Reliability & Platform Engineering

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

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangement

Job summary

Optus is seeking a Director of Cloud & Infrastructure Reliability Engineering to lead reliability across our cloud and infrastructure platforms. You will define SLOs/SLIs, drive governance, and guide strategic technology roadmaps across architecture, automation, security and resilience.

You will manage enterprise-wide SRE practices, oversee incident response and ensure disaster recovery and business continuity. A senior, cross-functional leadership role with global impact within Optus.

Qualifications

• 15+ years in infrastructure/ cloud engineering or related tech fields.
• 8-10+ years in senior tech leadership roles.
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience delivering large-scale cloud transformation programs.
• Experience with mission-critical environments with high availability.

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability, availability and operational readiness across cloud and infrastructure services.
• Define and govern SLOs, SLIs and reliability metrics.
• Lead operational governance and continuous service improvement.
• Provide strategic leadership across cloud, compute, storage, networking, virtualization, platform services and infrastructure technologies.
• Establish and mature SRE practices and resilience engineering frameworks.

Skills

Infrastructure engineering

Cloud engineering

Reliability engineering

SRE

Kubernetes/OpenShift

Platform Engineering

Terraform

Ansible

Security by design

Incident management

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/Google)

Job description

Optus is seeking a Director of Cloud & Infrastructure Reliability Engineering to lead reliability across our cloud and infrastructure platforms. You will define SLOs/SLIs, drive governance, and guide strategic technology roadmaps across architecture, automation, security and resilience.

You will manage enterprise-wide SRE practices, oversee incident response and ensure disaster recovery and business continuity. A senior, cross-functional leadership role with global impact within Optus.