Job Description

Acknowledgement of Country

CSIRO acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, sea and waters, of the area that we live and work on across Australia. We acknowledge their continuing connection to their culture and pay our respects to their Elders past and present. View our vision towards reconciliation

Role highlights

• Shape CSIRO’s enterprise & research cloud platforms across AWS, Azure & GCP
• Lead a high‑performing DevOps team delivering secure, scalable, world‑class cloud services
• Power Australia’s national science & mission‑critical systems through modern cloud technology

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.

Visit CSIRO.au for more information.

The opportunity

As the Cloud Platform Team Leader, you will lead CSIRO’s enterprise and research cloud capability across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform. You’ll provide strategic, technical and people leadership to a high‑performing DevOps engineering team, delivering secure, scalable and cost‑effective cloud services that support critical science and business outcomes.

This role shapes the future of CSIRO’s cloud platforms, strengthens security and compliance, and works closely with key technology partners to enable innovation and operational excellence across the organisation.

High-level duties include:

• Provide leadership and direction to the Cloud Platforms team, ensuring high-quality delivery of CSIRO’s enterprise and research cloud services across AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.
• Manage the technical aspects of CSIRO’s cloud platform capability, including responsibility for technical roadmaps, service maturity uplift, automation adoption, and alignment with CSIRO’s strategic technology direction.
• Allocate and coordinate cloud engineering resources to support operational stability, project delivery, and capability uplift across research and enterprise platforms.
• Drive adoption of cloud-native patterns, Infrastructure-as-Code, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and automated operational processes to improve reliability, scalability and efficiency.
• Lead cloud security uplift in line with Australian Government ISM controls, working with the Cyber Security team to maintain continuous compliance, robust identity models, and appropriate risk management.
• Oversee cloud cost optimisation activities including FinOps practices, tagging standards, spend forecasting, reserved instance planning, and workload rightsizing

Role particulars

Location and office arrangements: Canberra (Black Mountain), Melbourne (Clayton) – Preferred, other Major Australian capital cities considered.

Salary: AU$135,571 – AU$158,863 per annum (pro rata for part-time), plus 15.4% superannuation

Tenure & work schedule: Indefinite

Reference: 102967

As the successful candidate, you will bring:

Essential criteria

1. Demonstrated experience leading cloud engineering or DevOps teams in a complex, multi-cloud environment.
2. Deep technical expertise across AWS, Azure, and/or GCP, including architecture, security controls, automation, and operational best practice.
3. Strong understanding of cloud-native technologies (IaC, CI/CD, containers, Kubernetes, observability stacks, API-driven automation).
4. Proven ability to set strategic direction, lead complex technical programs, and deliver large-scale platform capability uplift.
5. Strong experience in cloud security, governance frameworks, identity management, and compliance obligations (including ISM).
6. Demonstrated experience with cloud financial optimisation and cost governance models.
7. Excellent stakeholder engagement, communication, and vendor management skills.

Desirable

1. Cloud certifications (AWS Solutions Architect, Azure Architect Expert, GCP Professional Cloud Architect).
2. Experience enabling cloud support for research workloads, data-intensive science, or HPC-through-cloud.
3. Understanding of FinOps practices and cloud budgeting cycles in large organisations.
4. Experience working within government, research, or regulated environments.

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

Not sure if you meet all the criteria?

While it is CSIRO policy that the successful candidate must meet all the essential criteria, there are many ways to demonstrate this. Don’t let the list discourage you. If you are unsure about applying, please reach out to the contact person in 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. Please contact Careers.online@csiro.au and let us know how we can support you.

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. To find out more, visit Careers at CSIRO

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. We recognise true diversity encompasses all ages, abilities, cultures, faiths, levels of education, genders, sexualities, diversity of thought and much more. We focus on hiring people who share our values of People First, Further Together, Making it Real and Trusted.

CSIRO holds Gold Status for the Australian Workplace Equality Index for LGBTQIA+ inclusion, and a Science in Australia Gender Equity Bronze Award.

Eligibility

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

Child safety

CSIRO is committed to the safety and wellbeing of all children and young people involved in our activities and programs. View our Child Safe Policy

How to apply

Please apply online and submit a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) and CV that demonstrate your motivation and ability to meet the essential requirements of this role.

Applications close

1st of June 2026, 11pm AEST