Lead Cloud Platform Engineer

The Opportunity

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

We have an exciting opportunity available for a Lead Cloud Platform Engineer based in Sydney, Melbourne or  Brisbane on a full-time permanent basis.

As the Lead AWS Cloud Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for the overall technical leadership, service provisioning, operational reliability and continuous improvement of the organisation’s AWS cloud platform. Working closely with the Platform Owner, you will prioritise and deliver the backlog, ensuring a scalable, secure, reliable and efficient cloud environment that will underpin many of the business’ applications and workloads going forward.

This role combines hands-on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities, empowering the engineering team to build reusable architecture patterns, focus on automation and deliver robust, well-architected platform services. A strong emphasis will be placed on uplifting platform reliability, streamlining customer onboarding and publishing a service catalogue of platform capabilities.

Key Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership: Guide the engineering team in best practices, aligning efforts with strategic objectives, and ensuring platform scalability and security.
• Team Development: Mentor and upskill team members, foster collaboration, and lead incident resolution to maintain platform stability.
• Platform Optimisation: Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of AWS services such as compute, networking, storage and IAM, focusing on automation, scalability, and proactive performance and reliability improvements.
• Reusable Architecture: Implement codified patterns with IaC tools (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation) aligned to AWS Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Customer Enablement: Streamline onboarding, ensure workloads align with platform standards, and deliver technical support for cloud services.
• Governance: Enforce compliance with platform standards and manage technical governance frameworks.

Your background

• Advanced AWS experience (e.g., EC2, RDS, VPC, S3, EKS, Transit Gateway) and hands-on expertise in Terraform Enterprise, HashiCorp Vault, GitLab, and Prisma integration
• Hands-on expertise in IaC tools, DevSecOps frameworks and CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Terraform, Gitlab, Hashicorp Vault, Prisma)
• Strong skills in landing zone architectures, self-service catalogs and automation.
• Extensive experience in IT, and particularly cloud engineering and leadership roles, preferably in a large corporate environment transitioning from on-premises to cloud-native or hybrid platforms.
• Proven track record in designing and maintaining large-scale cloud platforms, optimising for performance and reliability.
• Deep understanding of DevSecOps practices, iterative delivery methodologies and governance processes.
• Strong mentoring and team-building capabilities.
• Collaborative mindset with excellent communication skills for diverse audiences.

About the Team

Technology drives everything we do at APA, from connecting millions of Australians to energy sources to achieving our net zero ambitions. Our technology teams are focused on delivering innovative solutions that position APA as a world leader in energy infrastructure. We’re looking for people who are ready to make an impact—those who are courageous, nimble, and willing to take risks.

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 on Saturday 30 November 2024. Role Reference number JR969.

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

We will contact successful candidates after the closing date.