Cloud DevOps Tech Lead

Founded in the Queensland outback in 1920, Qantas has grown to be Australia’s largest regional, domestic, and international airline. Qantas has a range of subsidiary businesses that support the overall operations of the Group. The Qantas Group’s main business is the transportation of customers and freight using two complementary airline brands — Qantas and Jetstar — operating regional, domestic, and international services.

• Hands-on Technical Leadership of engineers responsible for building internal platforms, tools and automation for Qantas
• People leadership and Technical Strategy
• Permanent role based at Qantas Head Office, Mascot, Sydney 

At Qantas, we represent Australia to the world. Our diverse country is known for its unique spirit, mateship, and a can-do attitude. Together we’re strong and resilient, and we work hard to make sure we’re always at our best. 

Technology is a big part of how we continue to pioneer our way forward. With eyes on the future, our IT team harness technology on a global scale and tailor local solutions for each of our ports. Together we’ll show you it’s possible to make an impact, and to never underestimate what you’re capable of achieving.  

The Cloud DevOps Tech Lead leads the team responsible for building the internal platforms, tools and automation that empower developers to deliver high-quality software quickly, safely and with minimal friction.

This role treats developers as customers and is accountable for improving every part of the software delivery lifecycle, from local development environments through to deployment pipelines, runtime container platforms, CI/CD tooling, GitOps processes, secrets management, and internal developer portals.

You will work closely with Engineering, Platform Ops, SRE, SecOps and Architecture to ensure developers have a seamless, consistent and highly productive experience across the organisation.

Responsibilities include:

• Lead the design, governance and standardisation of CI/CD pipelines and GitOps practices across all engineering teams.
• Own the developer‑facing container platform experience (ECS/EKS), driving secure, reliable and self‑service consumption.
• Own core developer platforms and tooling, including artifact repositories, secrets management, and version control standards.
• Own the Akamai (CDN) platform, embedding automation and infrastructure‑as‑code into CDN configuration and change management.
• Build and maintain developer self‑service platforms (e.g. Backstage) for access to services, environments, documentation and delivery workflows.
• Lead, mentor and grow a team of engineers, and drive engineering culture improvements focused on automation, self‑service and developer empathy.

You’ll have: 

• Significant experience working in Cloud Technology, from large enterprise environments or equivalent organisations.
• Demonstrated Technical People leadership experience
• 10+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, Developer roles
• Strong demonstrated Akamai and container platform skills 
• Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Experience managing artifact repositories (Nexus, ECR) and build pipelines.
• Strong background in secrets management, identity, access control and
• secure pipeline design.
• Proven experience improving SDLC efficiency, lead time, deployment frequency and release quality.
• Strong engineering leadership skills, including coaching, governance and stakeholder management.
• Product mindset, ability to gather feedback, shape roadmaps, and deliver impactful internal tools.
• Excellent communication and ability to partner with engineering, security and operations teams.

Why Qantas?  

If you’re successful in your application, you’ll join a team where creativity and passion are encouraged. Our people come together to allow us to dream big and deliver successfully.  

There are many different opportunities across our team, which means you’ll be able to grow both personally and professionally at Qantas. Your development is a priority for us – so that you can maintain the high standards our customers have come to expect and can continue to develop over time. You’ll be supported from day 1 with on the job training and coaching as well as our formal training opportunities. While you may start in this role, we’ve got a great track record of supporting our people to take their career in so many different directions, the destinations are endless.   

The Qantas employee benefits program offers amazing benefits that extend well beyond travel.  

• We love to travel: Enjoy discounted air travel within Australia and across the globe, both for you and your family and friends, as well as exclusive deals on accommodation and holidays.  
• We have flexible leave options: Make use of leave and flexible working opportunities including 18 weeks paid parental leave and additional purchased leave options.   
• We’ll give you access to thousands of rewards: Through our partnerships we can offer you discounts across shopping, food and wine, insurance, health and wellbeing, leisure and entertainment. You can also take advantage of our salary packaging for everything from motor vehicles to electronic devices.  
• We’ll support your wellbeing: Whether its learning to better support your own and others’ mental health, our interactive wellbeing app or your very own tailored nutrition plan.  

Qantas is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity and inclusion. By coming to work for us, you’ll be part of an organisation that encourages diversity, supports charities and environmental initiatives. We encourage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander, and people of all backgrounds to apply. If you have any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at time of application. Your personal information will be kept confidential in compliance with relevant privacy legislation. 

Please note: applications will only be considered for candidates who have the right to work in Australia / New Zealand without restriction or sponsorship. 

Applications will close by Thursday the 30th of July