Cloud Platforms Technical Lead in Sydney

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About CSIRO

As Australia's national science agency, CSIRO is solving the greatest challenges through innovative science and technology. Many of our iconic innovations were once considered impossible until someone, just like you, joined us and took on the challenge.

The opportunity

Joining CSIRO as our Cloud Platforms Technical Lead offers a rare opportunity to architect the cloud foundation that powers groundbreaking scientific research and enterprise operations at Australia's national science agency. As the senior technical authority for the Cloud Platforms Team, you will help shape the overarching technical vision and multi‑cloud roadmap across AWS, Azure and GCP to accelerate real‑world scientific discovery.

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with Team Lead on technical vision, strategy, and roadmap development for the Cloud Platforms Team.
• Lead architecture design for complex cloud infrastructure projects across AWS, GCP, and Azure; participate in organisational architecture review boards.
• Provide guidance on technical standards, patterns, and best practices across platforms; drive adoption of DevOps principles and automation.
• Provide technical direction to team members through a dotted‑line reporting relationship; mentor senior and principal engineers on complex challenges.
• Maintain 30-40% hands‑on technical work on critical projects; lead by example through direct contribution to infrastructure code, automation, and tooling.
• Participate in 24x7 security on‑call rotation; serve as permanent escalation point for complex technical issues during incidents.

Location and office arrangements: Melbourne, Perth, Canberra, other Australian cities with CSIRO sites considered.

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

• A degree (or equivalent experience), in conjunction with demonstrated achievement in senior technical leadership roles in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, or IT architecture.
• Demonstrated deep technical expertise in at least two major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) with proven ability to design and implement complex, multi‑cloud infrastructure solutions at enterprise scale.
• Demonstrated ability to define technical strategy, architecture standards, and engineering practices that drive quality and consistency across a team of cloud platform engineers.
• Proven experience providing technical leadership and mentorship to engineering teams, including conducting architecture reviews, facilitating technical decisions, and developing team capabilities.
• A solid track record of hands‑on technical delivery alongside strategic leadership, maintaining technical credibility while influencing organisational direction.
• Proven ability to foster and maintain effective cross‑organisational relationships, representing technical interests in architecture forums and collaborating with senior stakeholders.
• Track record as a technical leader in cloud platform engineering within a research or scientific computing organisation.
• Multiple cloud certifications at professional/expert level across at least two cloud providers.
• Experience with distributed systems design, microservices architecture, and large‑scale infrastructure automation.

For full details about this role, and other criteria, please review the Position Description.

Setting you up for success

We are committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible to everyone. We recognise that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation.

Life at CSIRO and flexible work arrangements

We work flexibly at CSIRO, offering a range of options for how, when and where you work. We can discuss flexible work arrangements with you during the recruitment process. CSIRO also offers a range of leave entitlements, benefits and career development opportunities.

Inclusion and belonging

Solving Australia's greatest challenges takes a diversity of minds and lived experiences. We know diverse teams are more effective and deliver more innovative outcomes. As an equal employment opportunity organisation, we are committed to creating diverse and inclusive teams where people feel they belong.

This is a security assessed position, applications for this position are open to Australian Citizens only with the successful candidate being required to be able to obtain and maintain a security clearance at the Negative Vetting level 1. Appointment to this role is subject to provision of a national police check and may be subject to other security/medical/character requirements.

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