Cloud Engineering Team Lead

The Opportunity

At APA, our purpose is simple: to strengthen communities through responsible energy.

We now have an exciting opportunity available for a Cloud Engineering Team Lead in Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney or Brisbane on a full-time permanent basis.

Reporting to the Platforms & Engineering Manager and responsible for Lead is responsible for leading and managing the team, strategy, roadmaps, governance, patterns, reporting, cost effective solution designs, financial operation / management, operational health, security compliance (including any vulnerabilities and risk Management), and analysis of APA Cloud Platforms whether the technology is hosted on premise or in the Cloud, (including AWS, Azure and VMware). The cloud infrastructure platform is crucial in providing an exemplary user experience and in supporting platforms and engineering as a supplier and manager of technology. This key role provides technical and thought leadership, setting the Cloud platform direction, and developing product roadmaps that are operationally and strategically in alignment with enterprise strategy. At an operational level, the role requires the mobilisation and management of cloud platform practices and governance to ensure a scalable, robust, secure, reliable and operationally efficient infrastructure platform is delivered and maintained within the allocated budget. The role also provides guidance and input into Cloud Governance Standards and framework.

The location for this role is flexible and hybrid; we will consider locations all over Australia and/or home office. We will also consider job share arrangements.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement cloud platform strategies, roadmaps, and governance.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and manage risks and vulnerabilities.
• Collaborate with APA business stakeholders and external partners.
• Manage budgets and operational costs, identifying cost-saving opportunities.
• Manage team performance, coaching, and professional development.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD patterns and toolchains
• Transition and support the TEP platform to operations and deliver TEP platform services.

Your background

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.
• 10 Plus years of IT experience, with a minimum of 5 years in cloud engineering or management.
• Extensive experience with AWS and Azure platforms.
• Strong knowledge of virtualized and container infrastructure (e.g., Windows, VMware, Kubernetes).
• Proven ability to manage and optimise large-scale cloud solutions.
• Demonstrated leadership and team management skills.
• Excellent analytical, planning, and strategic management abilities.
• Strong communication skills, capable of influencing and negotiating with stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of DevOps and CI/CD patterns and toolchains

About the Team

Technology underpins everything we do at APA from helping connect millions of Australians to essential energy sources every day to achieving our net zero ambition - and the capability for our people to make this happen.

To help APA power ahead, the Technology teams is focused on enhancing APAs technology offering, providing innovative and progressive technology - enabling APA to be world class in energy solutions.

This is an exciting time for the team, we need people who are courageous, nimble, and ready to make an impact - change makers and risk takers.

Working at APA

At APA we're committed to fostering a safe and inclusive workplace where you can achieve your best. We'll provide you with access to targeted career development programs, competitive remuneration, employee benefits, flexible working arrangements, and wellbeing programs. We also have an inclusive parental leave policy providing 18 weeks leave including superannuation to support parents at work and in life.

We employee more than 2900 people across Australia and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture, where everyone feels safe, valued, and trusted to do their best every day.

We are APA

APA Group is a leading Australian energy infrastructure business.

We proudly own, operate and manage a diverse $27 billion portfolio of gas, electricity, solar and wind assets which deliver essential services to communities and customers across Australia.
And we own over 15,000 kilometres of gas pipelines which deliver energy to families and industry across every corner of Australia.

As the partner of choice in delivering infrastructure solutions for the energy transition, we're focused on bundled remote grid energy solutions, electricity and gas transmission, and future energy, including hydrogen and carbon capture and storage.

Our customer centric approach means we understand our customers and their businesses offering reliable, innovative, and cost-effective energy solutions that support their decarbonisation ambitions.

We are committed to delivering infrastructure solutions for Australia's energy transition and supporting the decarbonisation ambitions of our customers.
We prioritise sustainable outcomes so that APA, our people, customers, and communities can thrive - now and in the future.

Join our team and be part of Australia's energy transition!

We'd love to hear from you.

APA is an equal-opportunity employer. The safety, health and wellbeing our people, community and environment a priority. We embrace diversity in our people to ensure our workforce is representative of the communities that we operate in.

Applicants must be eligible to work in Australia to be considered.

This vacancy works with critical APA data, systems or infrastructure and candidates are subject to background vetting(including Police checks) before & during employment.

Role closes Sunday 28 July 2024. Role Reference number JR822.

PD is available on request by emailing [email protected] quoting reference number above.